Jumpman16
np: Michael Jackson - "Mon in the Mirror" (DW mix)
The bottom line isn't 'forgive and forget' as he feels it's his place to say. Knowing your history, I made and have continued to make the conscious choice to moderate in this thread rather than in PM, again (check your inbox if you need a reminder). While there is no way for me to know whether x user is a personal friend of y user, it doesn't even matter, because the only way SDS could know your entire history and what mods and admins have told you in infraction messages and otherwise is if you have forwarded every single one of them to him or let him sign into your account, which is problematic for entirely different reasons. And if he does not know your entire history, like I do, then he is therefore not qualified to 'suggest' anything to me on how I am choosing to moderate right now. The aim is that you will take warnings more seriously if they are not-so-private, because private ones do not seem to be working as well as we'd like.Uh... what?
He's my friend. If he's advising me to stop debating a point, he's not 'moderating' me. It's advice.
I kind of think it's a bit of a stretch to say that his observation about the last 2 paragraphs of your original post is not mini-modding either. In no way is he asking you to stop or otherwise acting with pretend authority, but rather stating his opinion that the kind of comment is kind of 'uncalled' for in a debate about a Starmie move set. The fact that you are a moderator when he's saying something's uncalled for in a debate he probably saw as irrelavent, as your post was debating about a set. It is a blurry line, though, as one could interpret that as moderator advice / recommendation to a user and thus it would be commenting on moderation rather than a post, but SDS could have assumed that it was not that.
And I am sure you do not realize this because you still do it all the time, but please stop prefixing your comments with 'Uh...'. It is very condescending and the exact same thing MoP used to be guilty of unknowingly.
Chris, think about that...why should I have to point it out to you, especially if you've turned the corner as you would have me believe? And 'completely illogical' is tame in comparison to 'horribly wrong', as if anything your comments should have been in the opposite order if you are indeed going to make the same mistake twice, right?If you noticed this before, why did you not point this out to me?
And as I have stated, you should have assumed that the writer (I) knows Surf does more damage than Grass Knot to Tyranitar, and therefore wondered what could have been meant instead of writing it off as illogical. And before you suspect I am rehasing this for no reason, I am belaboring the point not to continue to 'defend myself' but to caution you on reading analyses more thoroughly before making your own conclusions about what they mean if you're going to do revamps and analyses in the future. I'm not sure how you get 'You need Grass Knot to OHKO Tyranitar' when I clearly stated in the second sentence that 'will never be OHKOed by a 328 SpA Choice Specs Surf', which clearly indicates that nothing will OHKO.If you read the SUbjective changes post, I quoted the part of the analysis that implied it was somehow more effective than Surf ('Grass Knot is because of Pursuit and Tyranitar in general; even Surf doesn't OHKO' was the rough, paraphrased wording). I read that as 'You need Grass Knot to OHKO Tyranitar', which is incorrect. My post there (unlike the line you're quoting) was more reasonable, as what I thought it WAS saying was completely illogical. The explanation was confusing, obviously, as it confused me.
If there's anything left to talk about with regard to Starmie, someone will post, as usual.Anyway, while I think I've been 'getting better' over the last 2 months in particular (that's the only questionable thing in the time period immediately after that Wobb thing, and I've been more active than normal), it's good to get a reality check so I can get better. That being said, uh, can we just talk about Starmie now pleease?