NOT a floosie: I find it rather hypocritical that you would tell me to do something that none of you did before I was removed.

Telling me to send you a private message!

And what you recommend in the post is something I can't do since I do not know which Global Moderator it was that removed me. You and Eriisa are the only ones of the whole group of you that even wrote me, and it was long after the fact of my removal. I now assume that you each individually have veto power and no concensus is needed for any of you to act in the removal of a moderator. We know the trouble this type of organizing causes in the Security Consul of the United Nations, so I'm understanding of how things went down here. At least there, the countries have to announce how they vote.

There's only two groups I or anyone else can go to when something like this happens. Fencer and everyone else. You've seen it in the past when a moderator has started acting poorly by banning people he doesn't like with little or no provocation. The offended parties take their complaints and grievances to another board and air their concerns. They usually try the board that is closest to the topic on hand, but sometimes that is the very board and they have to take it elsewhere. Now that I know about the Global Moderators and this structure, I might've done things differently. I never used my power as moderator to ban people I didn't like just for that reason. In fact I'm ready to bet I'm the first moderator ever removed for anything close to doing whatever it is I did. That board was fun and lively, though quite often off topic. During the two months that Ed kept to his boycott of the board, it rarely strayed off topic. Check it out sometime. I know I've spent enough of my time scrolling through the days on that board. Why am I wasting my time? I care. Now the problem for me is to figure out why I care. This is some obscure place in the aether that no one should give this much of a thought about. And yet, all this grief that has befallen me. It is time for me to move on.

Since you Globals can ban me from every board if you choose to, my only real choice is to appeal to Fencer. As you say, and I know it to be true, he's a very busy person. I hate troubling him for stuff like this. At the same time, he has written to me on occasion. As busy as he is, he has found time to do so. There's lots you Global Moderators could learn from him. Surely your time on this site isn't more valuable than Fencer's?
As it happens, I was writing you a message right now NOT a floosie. You are the only one of the Globals that has taken time out of your schedule to address this problem and my concerns to me and publicly. The organization of BrainKing is a very much a public concern of the members and this seems to be the perfect place to discuss this issue. Eventually some other crisis of similiar import will come up. How it is handled the next time will greatly affect how people feel. I don't see why you couldn'tve allowed me to join your guy's personal discussion board to just talk about this issue if you felt it something that needed to be kept out of public view. Or create a fellowship for the specific use to discuss it and only have myself and you Global Moderators as members. And have you thought of the problem of one of the other Global Moderators completely agreeing with me and undoing the actions? Imagine the trouble that could cause. You guys would all be fighting then. As I wrote to you a few days ago, it's too late to undo what happened to me and this situation, but I and I hope you will try to help make sure something similiar doesn't happen again. This subject is closed for me now until Fencer asks for my opinion or the structure of the Global Moderators and powers alloted to us members and moderators in relation to Global Moderators is changed. I will give my advice and 2¢ to Fencer privately if asked, and publicly if a forum is created for that reason comes into being. You say I am a valued member. That's a right nice sentiment to have. I'm just one member here. There's plenty of other people here that are good members. Lots better than me in many ways. And a majority of them don't post. They may not even read our postings. They're here for the reason this site was created, to play games. Being able to espouse one's opinions as I and a lot of others like to do makes this site that much better.

It is the structure that needs tweaking or major changes. We can work with Fencer or we can hope he gets it right on his own. The way it's set up now isn't set in stone. I'm sure I'm not the only one that can think of some changes to the structure to help the boards get moderated fairly and yet keep trouble to a minimum while preserving as much freedom as is possible. I had ground rules for posting on the Gothic Chess board. Clearly stated though not clearly understood. Freedom is messy and hard to define, but it easy to know when you don't have it. This is what you should've came to me about. None of you did. You imposed your will upon the whole board. If my rules were faulty or you thought they were the cause of the problem or that people were taking advantage of loop holes in them, this is when I needed your help. Not arbitrarily deciding that some of the members were not behaving as you would have them behave in your discussion boards. I could've worked with you to change them, or I could stood my ground and appealed to Fencer, or I could've said, "I'm out" and let someone else give it a go.

Let me thank you for leaving my previous post here NOT a floosie, though I think ughaibu's is better written than mine not counting the typos. I see no reason for him to be banned for what he wrote. But that is why you guys are the Global Moderators, you get to make these decisions. In cases of censorship I believe you should let people have their say unless what they say is offensive. Just the fact of it being something you disagree with is a poor reason and sets a bad precedent for future problems and accusations of favoritism.

I had not intented to get going with yet another long winded post one right after the other, but dang it here it is. I have checked the board this post is going to as I've been writing this to see if others might've posted and if they agreed or disagreed with what I wrote previous to this. Purple's post addresses some of the concern that I have stated in this post about how one would get a fair hearing if it isn't a cut and dried matter. His and Chessmaster1000's cover the problem of which Global Moderator I should have written. Purple also talks about the posts being public or private which is something that concerns me too. Putting the dirty laundry out to air in public can be bad or good. James Hird's doesn't take sides, but he does agree that I should be able to speak my mind freely here. Andromedical's is about the very thing I wrote to you when I was first removed as moderator.

Thank you all again and I'm sure this will work out for the best. I have had enough to say on the matter and I'm not as quick as Purple is when it comes to things to poke fun at in my writing.