I rationally explained why I disliked what you wrote.

And I explained why I agreed with you, but why I still disliked the system (which, incidentally, I acknowledge is not your fault). In your first two posts you accused me of ‘whining’ three times, and said that there was “something wrong with [me]“. I suggest you please look up what ad hominem is, and how it’s not considered to be part of rational argument.

You accused me of something,I did not do. That doesn’t make me ranting or hysterical to object to such things.

The only thing I ‘accused’ you of initially was asking me to move, which you did do. Then I accused you of coming to my site and ranting hysterically at me, which in my opinion you have also done. I even acknowledge that I appreciate your right to do such things (and also feel free to disagree with my assessment, as you have), but that if you want to do them on my site (which I own, pay for and maintain) then you can at least have the courtesy of following my rules. Which you have done. So it’s all good.

Just to clarify it for you, what you’re getting upset over is my wording “kicked from the Main Map”. I admit this is somewhat hyperbolic; but then that’s the nature of this entire site and if people can’t recognise that… well, they probably shouldn’t be here. But hyperbole aside, it is — in effect — exactly what you did. You can post comments until you’re blue in the face, but alas none of your actions thus far have particularly engendered me towards apologising to you for my turn of phrase.

As to my e-mail,why should I give you a valid e-mail at all?? You have not given me one….fair is fair.

Not directly, but there is a contact form below which plugs straight into my email account.

Besides, you’re assuming that we’re in some kind of equal power relationship here, which we aren’t. Again I reiterate, this is my site. You are not entitled to do whatever you want here, contrary to what you appear to believe. Because I am a very nice person (har har), I will allow you to post comments only if you provide me with an email address. These are simply the ‘rules’. They aren’t ‘fair’. They don’t have to be. There are many other methods by which you could air your grievances at me without providing an email address (coming into my dream and yelling at the bot, whispering me on Furc, sending an email via the contact form and so on), but you chose not to use them. You chose to immortalise yourself publicly in a string of comments. And to make a comment on this site, I require an email address. I’m even generous enough to keep that email address confidential, which is more than I can say for most sites (and in fact is more than you yourself have done). If you don’t respect me enough to follow this very simple rule, then I don’t see why I should respect you enough to allow you space to air your views on my site.

Maybe I should reiterate it in simpler terms. Just as you are free to make whatever rules you want in your dream, and enforce them however you see fit, I am free to make whatever rules I want on my site, and enforce them however I see fit. Do you understand my point?

As to spam,I don’t open your site to it at all,you do that just by having an e-mail account and a site at all.

Actually, I’m talking about comment spam, not email spam (though I do prevent the latter by not publishing any email addresses on this site at all, as well as by participating in IP-blacklisting projects like Project Honey Pot). And you are absolutely correct, which is why my very simple rules on comments are in place; to prevent, as much as possible, spam. I’m not sure what point you’re supposed to be making here…?

That is what moderation is for,to check to make sure that what is posted is not spam,try doing that.

Perhaps you should re-read the part in my post above where I explain the whole reason I require legitimate email addresses is to facilitate WordPress’ moderation queue.

(This is so fun! Like shooting fish in a barrel!)

As to my e-mail,why should I give you a valid e-mail at all?? You have not given me one….fair is fair. As to spam,I don’t open your site to it at all,you do that just by having an e-mail account and a site at all. That is what moderation is for,to check to make sure that what is posted is not spam,try doing that.

I put a fake e-mail,because the one on the Guild Website is not my main one and my main one is not the business of everyone on the web.

How about you look at it this way; I allow you to air your grievances against me in a public forum (my own), and in return all I ask is for a legitimate email address. It’s not actually published anywhere on the site; WordPress simply uses it to determine whether or not your comments need to go into the moderation queue (i.e. are they spam or not).

By putting in addresses that are obviously fake, you are essentially vandalising my site by making it more vulnerable to spam. I don’t think your ranting (and apparent inability to disassociate your own personal aggression with the issue that is actually being discussed) is so valuable to casual Googlers that I’m prepared to let you get away with leaving rubbish in my database. While I support everyone’s right to mouth-foaming ranting, if you’re gonna do it on my site, you’re gonna do it on my terms.

The next comment you post with a fake email is going to be marked as spam and blacklisted from the site. I’m perfectly prepared to enter into a discussion as to the fairness-or-not of the chartered-versus-guild-packages system in Furcadia (you’ve got some good points, though I couldn’t really be arsed picking them out of the hysteria to address them intelligently), but if you want a place to just mindlessly rant about how the world hates you, you should perhaps consider setting up your own website.

Also,please do stop whining about the people outside my dream,they have laid in that area for over 2 years,they are not doing anything to deliberately annoy you. They have gathered in that particular spot for years,they aren’t doing it to deliberately annoy you,their lives don’t revolve around you.

I put a fake e-mail,because the one on the Guild Website is not my main one and my main one is not the business of everyone on the web. Also,that website is not my main website,just the one for the Guild at that time….thus why I don’t give my main one out. It is not everyone’s business what my main e-mail or website is,that is for me to hand out to who I wish.

In layman’s terms, the whole thing is fucked. That’s why I don’t check Charters; I don’t see why I should have to relinquish a tile to someone who was able to access a system I can’t by sheer virtue of time.

And you’re right, you were polite and you asked. Which is why I moved; not because you waved a ‘Charter’ in my face. I could simply not have, and instead forced you to try and call a Guardian. It was tempting. But you were at the time, ultimately, polite. At the time.

I have the right to use the spot I took the time to Charter,which means finding 10 founding members and making the dream,patches and such. When you have done as much,then you may whine.

That’s my whole point; I can’t even if I wanted to. I wonder, then, if by your standards I am allowed therefore to ‘whine’ over that situation? If not, I’d very much like to hear what suggestions you have for an alternate solution.

Edit: Incidentally, I’m just curious as to what purpose you think inputting fake URLs and email addresses has when I have linked to your website in the post above? I mean, just out of curiosity and all.