People of Earth this thread:I don't know where to start, but I know when I should have, and that was long ago. My sincere apologies to all for that, most particularly to those who fought what should have been my battle and received only grievous wounds for it.
Some clarity about my words re DE.
I banned him several years ago for his persistent insinuations, both here and off-board, that I and others were engaged in hoaxing the deaths - or perhaps even the very lives - of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. He returned via sockpuppets, and cultivated several members who did the same with multiple accounts, fostering suspicion and confusion on the board. He nurtured sources and harassed members.
He claims to have had nothing to do with the creation of "The Last Statue," that he was led to it, and that he doesn't know the identity of the author despite remaining in frequent contact. I can concede all that, and even that he could be very probably merely wrong and not a Bad Guy. But he's been this thing's John the Evangelist. He's blogged it, created a wiki, fished for interest on the unfiction forum (under another username, while categorically denying that he was DE) and posted in tandem with the author on that and other boards, claiming that what he or she has to say is of "parapolitical interest." That the author means harm for this place and harbours malice for its members is not in doubt. DE needn't be a Bad Guy to be toxic to this place. Or, come to think of it - and I wish he would - for this place to be toxic to DE.
I would like to echo this:
brainpanhandler wrote:I realize you qualified this statement with that "somewhat", however I wish you had further qualified it by saying "and it took another member CC, to finally get a some what straightforward account of what they believe is likely going on." because CC was very careful to offer disclaimers along the way, like, "Again, much of what I've written regarding this issue is speculation on my part, some with decent but circumstantial evidence to back it up, some not. It is this fact that causes me to request others to add or correct me if I've gone astray. The fact remains however, that there is bad, bad acting afoot here, and has been for awhile. That is not speculation." I think it would be a very good idea to keep that in mind at all times when reading through what CC has pointed at.
I have theories, too, but I believe theorizing is a part of the game which I don't want to play. I'd rather stick with the knowns and the verifiable, which is mundane, malicious mindfucking.
barracuda wrote:But - Jeff, the admin of this board did not formally apprise me that Et in Arcadia Ego was still an at large here. And I wish he had, as the lack of that information has left me feeling a bit adrift. It would not have changed my decision to take on the "responsibility" of moderation, but it would have changed the tenor of that decision.
I apologize for my sausage-fingered response to all of this and the needless opacity. I'm especially mortified at the cost to Et, who drew anonymous slander and hurt for simply helping me set up a new home for RI here. He didn't deserve that, nor the thankless sniping he received here from some in the midst of it all.
And let there be clarity about this: sunny and barracuda are the moderators and I am the admin. No one else here now holds moderator or admin privileges. If that changes, it will be announced.