Are you done stalking me now? (It's Free-day!)
That's a bold allegation. I'm doing no such thing.
Okay, hi, I actually wanted to say something just to everyone, or myself right here in this thread, but I feel I am being baited by the administration staff into, 'actin' a-fool', up here on Lunarthreads.com or something? If I am just being paranoid, please tell me, but I made (gasp) another joke about Sonic# 'stalking' me and they appear on the 'Guest bar,' then logs off. I am being a courteous poster, and waiting for them to reply to me, then they just log off, because, like, just staring at the Guest bar is so normal, at least for me when I am logged in. Is it weird for me to say that I feel almost harassed on a message board about 'LUNAR'?
So I am being judged for not replying to every post as soon as I log in, and I'm being accused of stalking. That is odd.
My habits with posting are to check the boards one or two times a day, more often when I need breaks from writing (like yesterday). If I have time to reply when I check, I do. The exception is when the conversation could go too quickly with only two responders in a forum. That limits the ability of everyone else to reply, so I try to wait 12-24 hours or until another person has posted. (That's not a rule here, but I've seen it work well elsewhere, so I keep to it personally.) So you're reading too much into my not replying the next time I checked in - it had little to do with you. (And the little it did have to do with you was that I was in no position to respond to an allegation of stalking, since I was technically working.)
The part of my prior post you're referring to, furthermore, was genuine in its intent - I found it curious, and I thought I'd do differently in that situation. (As was the mention of the game I'm running.) I've had bad
GameStop experiences; I've never had no one willing to help me. Your explaining that the store was crowded and you were with someone at the time who advised you to go - cool. I better understand why you did what you did.
Finally, my responses as an admin have been very carefully considered. I consult the rules. I consult Kizyr and other administrators of the forums. I don't do bans or temp bans without their consent. I let everyone know when I close or split a topic, in case they have any objections. In particular, this part of the rules is very relevant here:
I don't want to ban anyone.
I also don't want a topic about what games we play and whatever comes up in the process to be turned into a thread where anyone's making personal accusations, threatening to go to the police, or dredging up old disagreements from locked posts. To Alunissage's attempt to keep this topic on topic, you replied with more of the same dredging up. That's escalation into flaming and going off topic, and will not be tolerated.
To be totally clear, there were a few ways to avoid this.
1. Make a new topic with your concerns. If you feel it deserves attention, don't drag another topic off-topic.
2. Respond to the content of a post, not what you feel the content is doing. Don't accuse administrators of things as petty as stalking when they merely don't reply immediately. We're not out for you. I carefully explain everything I do as an admin to communicate that.
3. When there are attempts to keep a topic on topic, don't drag it further off topic. Don't respond to an attempt to make someone apologize for what went down weeks ago in a prior thread.
Therefore I'm splitting this thread, locking it, leaving it in a public forum (so there's no confusion over what went down), and giving a second warning to TempestOne. TempestOne, you can consider this the warning that would have been sent via PM. You may send me a PM if you have any questions.