For eight years, I have spent nearly every day of my life logging onto OH. I don't always post. I certainly don't do a bunch of analysis. But, it was my internet home. Several times a day, I was logging in to see what was going on. Not just for Orioles news -- heck, I got so much info and perspectives from all parts of life. I'll miss some folks over there.
If you would have told me a week ago that I would leave that site on January 5, I would have called you a fool.
But just add me to the "backstabber" list because I sent RZNJ some positive rep with a comment when he posted that Tony had given him neg rep for what I thought was a nonoffensive statement of an opinion. Tony then rips me in a PM. I then wondered, how the heck did he know what I said? Apparently he has so few things to do in his life that he'll monitor private messages when someone makes him mad. And then he takes what you said and makes it into something bigger. Really childish.
I never had an infraction, a neg rep from Tony, nothing for eight years. But then he starts calling me names and defends his monitoring of private messages (I can understand if someone reports an offensive private message -- but just fishing around to start fights -- no). I wasn't going to say anything publicly, but since I came over here and actually read this thread and see that I'm not the only one who has been treated this way by him, well, I say the heck with him. He built a great board, but he'll eventually kill it because he's too much in love with himself.
This "backstabber" hadn't even visited this board until today. I watched as good posters left, and I didn't like that, but I didn't involve myself in the drama. But here I am, a martyr like many of you.
And no, Tony, I didn't let that internet door hit me.
This is the key to it all because Tony would have you believe and probably will have a lot of his members believing that posters over here are a bunch of people with a vendetta, a chip on our shoulders, trying to get back at him or whatever. People need to really take note of the bolded here. This is a person who loved the Hangout, never had an infraction, and who never saw himself leaving but he made one simple "mistake" yesterday. With that, he's completely disrespected and blackballed. As All Star, mweb, DJ and others have said, even if you think you have leash, even if you've been a valuable member of the "community" all it takes it one comment that Tony finds disrespectful. Then, you're not only on his shitlist but he encourages and allows the rest of the board to publically shame you.
