Anyway, @quid. It seems if I comment against something, it gets upvoted; If I comment in support of another's answer, or I answer, it gets downvoted. Hence I don't think I can be useful to this site any further. There are clearly at least six users tracking my every move on this site. Perhaps I should play reversed psychology and support what I'm against, and criticize what I'm for, because I think that would get better results from all my contrarians.
@amWhy you.are.not.leaving. imagine how many good answers we'll lose in the time to come! Sometimes it's essential to ignore a few people for the greater good for this site and what we learn from it! You honestly shouldn't let a couple downvotes ruin your day. And for any rude comments, @quid can take care of them for you.
@quid You can't begin to understand what life is like for me on this site. Call me whatever you want to call me, but stop blaming my perception all the time.
@OmarS I don't think this is the first time @amWhy is considering to quit.. she'll understand the value of this site and hopefully regret planning to quit in the first place ! :)
@sai-kartik Let me be clear that I have no current "plan" to quit. But I sometimes consider seriously whether I should. No worries, everyone. I appreciate my chat relationships, but on main and meta, it seems best for me to remain invisible.
@Arjun I agree, and it does not sound stupid. But I doubt my participation on this site is right, anymore. Because I don't think the direction this site has taken is right, anymore.
The mods have become a "police force" responsible for protecting "criminals" far more than the "law abiding citizens" of this site. So that law abiding citizens are always in danger due to criminal acts against them. That's not the sort of "society" I want to invest myself in.
It really isn't this site's mods that are the problem. But to remain mods, they must abide by SE codes, and have limitations of what they can do. About 20% of the mods on this site try to make a difference, but for the most part, their hands are tied.
Ironically, @quid just left this room! Maybe I've given him more credit than is due.
@Arjun There are too many users who would remain to gain as much reputation as possible, in the absence of users who try to hold them accountable for asking and answering mostly only good questions, which is made very clear, everywhere on this site, if someone sincerely wants to ask a good question, and answer a good question.
@quid I think that's what you've been working for all along, @quid.
Suspended because of a comment here? Despite what the OP said to me, who is not suspended? I am tired of the highly selective and arbitrary enforcement on this site of the Code of Conduct.
@amWhy I understand that you are upset. I would prefer not to get into a heated exchange You know that this is not what I have been working for. To say it just makes us both feel bad. Well, maybe it makes you feel better briefly, but not in the long run.
@amWhy it was not about this at least not mostly. It was about no one specific thing.
@quid No, it doesn't make me feel better to say it. But sometimes truth has to be stated. Of course, you don't want me to upset others. So Everyone else, everything is aokay :-) :-) Don't rock the boat, right, @quid?
@quid It was "just because?" Of course it was. So you and Co. can make all the trouble makers on this site happy!! As I said earlier, you're all here to make SE a success, and if keeping hoards of abusers on this site means sacrificing me regularly, you all oblige.
@quid But you don't give a damn if hoards of users upset me. They can keep me in a cellar, abuse me, but if it's only me they abuse, that's okay. But if I make a few frown, if it's more than one, that's not okay. I don't think you get how idiotic your reasoning, and the reasoning you are obliged to support, is. I know you have your hands tied, @quid. But Im sick of being your sacrificial lamb. Bye, @quid.
Or maybe I need to start flagging 100 x the number of flags I currently raise, and scream to CM's every day to get the results others seem to get. Nothing mods to is transparent. And I'm sick of mods babying abusers of this site. Again, bye @quid, and most of all, Bye SE.
As usual we do not give details but if you think you are the only one that got into trouble with the mods over varied recent event it would be incorrect. @amWhy
@quid "I had at least two helpful flags yesterday for rude and abusive treatment. I was diagnosed with PTSD today, because of that torment. I want something done to those I flagged, because they have injured me. " Is that what your team needs to hear, rants from users in flags, to make your team feel obliged to do something? Or do you just all relish in making me your example all the time? You minimized what I suffer, and maximize the complaints of others against me. I am sick of it.
@amWhy indeed it is helpful to raise more flags, such as "unfriendly" flags.
We do not need to hear rants, but we need to be called to problematic situations. It is arguably true that some users get away with things because other do not raise the flags.
@quid Just another option for chat! I didn't participate all that much there, but it will be good, when searching there, to be able to upvote (or downvote) posts again. Strange culture there, though, in the chats. If people think this site's meta is off-putting to new users, they should check out MSE and its chatrooms. ooii!
