War on the Internet
A funny thing happened to me a few days ago.
I’m banned from a metal discussion forum that I helped build. If you read that sentence you’ll probably think “What the hell did he do to deserve that??” Well I don’t know.
I’ll tell the story here and maybe while I’m telling it I’ll start to understand it myself. And because this is my weblog and I have the time I’ll tell the long version.
I’m this story there are a couple of people who might not like it if you use there name or nickname. To be save I’m using other names. If you know me you know if I like or dislike this person or not based on the name I’m giving him or her.
A few years ago Bill G. 
wanted to start a metal website. But because he had little experience in web development I helped him. First with advise later a little scripting.
The site became a metal community and later a metal forum.
One of my contributions was uploading the site and repairing the database. Thinking I was part of the team I started to react irritated when changes where made without my knowledge. Not that this was my site, but I though I was part of the development team. The “partnership” ended but my contribution to the discussions in the forum did not. I was a regular on the forum. I had a lot of friends there and loved to talk to them about serious stuff and about nonsense. Well one of the members G. Bush was a desperate guy who wanted to be friends. On the metal forum I always though he was a guy who wanted to be interesting and in doing so he was bluffing a lot. On the forum he can go one and do this, but that doesn’t mean that I’ll be friends with him outside of the forum. And that is just what he wanted. He contacted me on myspace, begging to be friends. If I put him in my myspace top friends he would do the same for me. I really don’t like people crawl to be you “friend”. So I declined. Afterwards he asked the same thing two or three times. And I declined every time. I wrote him and told him that I wouldn’t add him as friend even if he asked me a thousand times. And this wasn’t helping his case.
Now back to the metal forum. I told this story on the forum without mentioning his (nick)name. I just called him a moron. He posted that he was the moron from my story. Well if he wants the world to know I think he is a moron, be my guest.
After a few weeks of participating on the forum Bush did his sad routine again. Something like “I’m a nice guy and I really don’t understand why Rafiek doesn’t like me”. If there is something I don’t like it’s a fake sad routine. So I posted that I don’t like him but I think I’m not the only one. One of the other members asked why I don’t like him so I posted the short version. Maybe I shouldn’t have don that. Bush was so angry that he posted on a public internet forum that the next time (which would be the first time) he meets me he would put a bullet in my head. Yep I was threatened with my life. By a moron so no reason to be scared.
A other member James H. asked why the admin Bill G. never responded to the threat. Bill told him that he would not because it would not matter. Other members Alanis M., Ozzy O. and me started to discuss with Bill about his responsibilities as a admin. We told him things like if you let this one slip don’t be surprised if other members start ignoring other rules. And how can we take a admin seriously if he doesn’t do anything about a threat. His response was “Try to ignore my rules, see what happens.” and “Stop this discussion, we’re going back to the original topic.”
Because Alanis and I didn’t stop, we demanded a response from the admin, we where banned from the site.
But this story does have a happy ending .
Without having knowledge of this “War” a friend and former colleque of mine Linus T. started a discussion forum with rockers from every genre as a target audience. When he heard what happened I asked me if I wanted to help him run this new forum. I looked at it and liked the possibilities so now I’m the admin of a new rock forum.
Since I’m banned from Bill’s site I send a mail to my friends that they can contact me on the new forum. They told there friends etc. The new forum is only three days old and we have 20 members, 36 topics and 296 posts.
I’m not gonna post the link to the old forum because that would look like bashing him some more. I am gonna put the link to the forum I’m co-running.
If you are interested in rock music, Suriname, or just want to have some fun you can always come by.
C-ya on the internet
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