LynchMePls wrote:OMFG. Please read the thread. I dunno if anyone else is accusing him of "not contributing", but that isn't the case on him at all. Let me try to explain.
1) I made a vote that looked like a policy lynch.
2) Redtail says "is that a policy lynch?"
3) Others find the question odd and pressure him.
4) Redtail flails about saying scummy things and trying vainly to deflect attention to others for "not contributing".
1. This undoubtedly happened.
2. I did not say that. MS said that. Then, after 2 people voted MS (presumably in response to that statement), I responded with
redtail896 wrote:Wait, is this in reaction to his "smelling a policy lynch"? Really?
In short, I was questioning why people had quickly jumped onto MS. Again, all I'm doing is questioning their vote. Why is that scummy?
3. Again, this undoubtedly happened, although I still don't understand why others found it odd.
4. From what I can tell, the only scummy thing you've accused me of in my "flailing" is trying to deflect. And this brings us to the whole "no content thing.
Let's be clear about 2 things.
A. Before you came along LynchMePls, nobody had bothered to spell out a real case against me. I am not a mind reader; I can't know why you're voting for me unless you tell me. The best I can do is make an educated guess. Now, if I'm at L-5 and nobody has given me a reason, I just assume I'm being random voted (hence my question to Elli). But when I woke up and discovered myself at L-1, I obviously had to say something. You'll notice that multiple times I ask for somebody to explain the case against me.
B. I genuinely thought that I was being persecuted for lack of content. I found this unfair, and so pointed out other people that I felt had produced even less content. That's it. That's the "scummy flailing deflection" that you've accused me of. It only doesn't make sense because I discovered, later, that that wasn't the case. If this had just been explained earlier, we could've avoided the whole shebang.
Now, why did I think I was being accused of little content?
redtail896 wrote:Friend wrote:Redtail's last post just oozes scum out of its many orifices. "What? Huh? I didn't realize why my lack of desire to pressure anyone or even attempt to scumhunt is scummy!!"
cloudocean wrote:Translation: I haven't shown any interest in scumhunting/desire to pressure, but I'm not scum because some people have even less of a desire to do so than myself!
These is where/why I interpreted that I was being wagoned for lack of content.
@LynchMePls: Why are you FOSing Pacman simply because he doesn't agree with you?
@Friend: He makes perfect sense to me, but then since he's defending me I've perhaps read it more closely. Basically, he's saying that I've never had a chance to defend myself because nobody gave a reason for the votes.
SpyreX wrote:The issue, nay, the rub, is commenting on it and not throwing a vote down on any of the parties involved.
So now I'm scummy because I didn't vote in that post? Perhaps I wanted to hear an answer first?
You can just call me Redtail. If I could, I'd change my name to that anyway.