Ladies, gentlemen, friends, followers, fellow BBS denizens, @S3C who keeps complaining that I don't poast news, anyone else who might stumble upon this by accident:

Since messaging the Tom has produced no fruit so far (not even a response), I've decided to go public with this.

I am being bullied by a mod.

May I present to you:

Now what did I do to merit this, you ask? Here is the "offending" poast:

Not only did his banning me completely prove me right (censorship is the tool of those who lack convincing arguments), look at how he doesn't even try to make it seem like a 1-year ban is justified:

It's a pure power-trip. This is the tail-end of a string of ever longer bans he handed me for ever pettier infractions. Now we're at the point where he apparently no longer even feels the need to give a reason. He doesn't explain to me which rules I broke (anyone else is free to find one and bring it to my attention), he just jumps at the flimsiest excuse to get me out of his sight. This is vindictiveness of the pettiest level, and it is, in my humble opinion, completely unbecoming of a mod.

But wait, it gets worse! He then went full Stalin and locked my "Musician ABC" thread.

This thread had been going strong for years, which I take as evidence that it broke no rules. I created it back then due to popular demand, after a previous identical thread went tits up with @RoboHex's voluntary poast wipe. It has been consistently generating activity, by a variety of people - so you can't even claim it was only being kept alive by one person and should by rights be dead. There was no reason to lock it.

Funniest of all, the lock message admitted as much:

He wouldn't explicitly recommend the thread be recreated if there was a valid reason to lock it. If the thread serves enough purpose that you need to recommend it be recreated, just leave it open, for fuck's sake. The inevitable conclusion is that he's doing it purely because he doesn't want to see my name on the BBS any more.

So there you have it, folks. There's a tyrant roaming around the BBS, locking and banning according solely to his own urges, without requiring evidence of any wrong-doing. This cannot be accepted. The people of Newgrounds must be told. If @The-Great-One is correct (cheers at this point), enough people should go looking for me to see this.

(Now you know who my real arch-enemy is. I'm sure @Wegra will miss me teaming up with @DrSevenSeizeMD's cats to tell him off.)

This was the last straw. There is no more hope of resolving this amicably.

EDIT 25/07/24: I'm back. For now. I don't think the abuse will stop, though. So I'll leave this poast up as a chronicle.

EDIT 30/08/24: I am apparently no longer allowed to insult Americans using Cockney Rhyming Slang.

Only a true Sir Anthony would consider these "slurs".