Originally posted by Portfolio Boy:
Eventually, where the rude posts get no responce, they will abate.
PB, see this is what
everybody doesn't realize about this: Greybird doesn't "abate" if I ignore him. I tried that at DCMB. I stopping responding
in total to all his posts. When he realized I wasn't going to defend myself, he saw this as a green light, and just went apeshit, attacking me in almost every other post. It went on for weeks. I'm not exaggerating. This happened. Finally, I had to go on the offense to get him to back him off.
If I ignore him, Greybird will not stop, he will
increase his attacks. This is a demonstrated fact. And
in Legion World, if I respond and defend myself with even tepid tactics like calling him a "loon," Gary threatens to lock my topic. If I decide to go on the offense, even mildly, I do get my topic locked up.
There is no way for me to deal with it. Whatever I do, I'm fucked.
Therefore, I spent a lot of time and energy working out what I felt was a very fair and reasonable truce to deal with the problem,
and Gary refuses to even respond to it. He deletes, he actually deletes the entire topic. WHY? What was so offensive about trying to fairly and rationally deal with this impossible crazy situation?!
Gary still refuses to even admit that Greybird singles me out for attacks. Gary "hints" that he has talked to Greybird, but if Gary doesn't even think Greybird singles me out, why would he "talk" to Greybird about
a nonexistant problem? Do I have any options at all besides quitting? I can't see any.
And I think that's the point:
I'm supposed to see that.My sincere attempt to fairly deal with the problem gets entirely deleted. Primarily it just stated we leave each alone, we stay off each other's topics. This apparently is heinous, repulsive.
Gary obviously now views
me as the problem so he shoots the messenger by deleting my entire topic without responding to it. His new topic isn't a response. It's a non-response.
It sure seems like the decision has been made to give me no option
but to leave.And I'm sure this topic will be deleted shortly.
Just like me.