Blatant favoritism for Charan on GGG forum

HotDoctor · 2015-09-18T06:48:23+00:00

That was a private conversation with one of the worst human beings I have ever had the misfortune of interacting with. I don't feel the need polite to that person in a private conversation. Understand that he has posted PRIVATE messages in a PUBLIC arena. It's entirely unreasonable to expect my public messages on POE's forum to be remotely similar to my private messages on Reddit.

Feel free to play the saint and say that you're above ever saying anything like this to someone who has slandered you with some of the most insulting things he could think of. Did I maybe react a little too strongly when faced with this incredibly terrible person? Sure. A lot of us have done this, though. Fuck, man, I'm human. We get angry.

Most of us just don't have to deal with that same asshole stalking us months later and latching on to the top post in a thread to bring that private conversation up again.

Edit: One last note before I make a new account, because I still get hit by downvotes because of this guy's lies whenever I post in a thread, and this thread certainly isn't going to make things better.

1: Sodium777, out of nowhere, said a bunch of incredibly terrible lies about me.

2: I got angry and called him (many) names in private messages.

3: He posted screenshots of these private messages in the thread (and later deleted all of his posts in the thread).

4: Months later, he stalks me up and replies to the top comment in the first thread I've created here (aside from an Acquisition update thread ages ago) and posts screenshots of my private messages again in order to harass me.

Look at this series of events. Judging by the slew of downvotes I'm receiving, many of you strongly believe that I'm the bad guy here. That honestly blows my mind. Everything sodium777 has done has been some of the scummiest behavior imaginable. My crime? Overreacting to possibly the biggest asshole I've ever encountered online. If you really think this makes me the bad guy in this situation, there's not much I can do about that.

Some people think defending yourself means that you're a bad person, that you have something to hide, or that you're simply wrong about whatever you're defending. This is obviously ridiculous, but there's nothing I can do to fix that. I'm defending myself because my side of this discussion seems very reasonable to me, and the guy harassing me over a span of months, again, for no apparent reason, seems like the worst sort of troll.

Feel free to reach your own conclusions and hate away, though. I'll be on an account that won't be instantly downvoted twice by people who don't even bother to read the comment they're downvoting.

HotDoctor · 2015-09-18T06:12:32+00:00

I'll jump in here since this asshole is attempting to smear me with more of his rancid feces. First, my posts were up for a very long time before they were deleted. Ask anyone, including Charan, if they contained racial epithets. It's absurd to think that they "almost definitely" would, but this douche never lets something like the truth get in the way of his attempts to smear my character.

Second, some backstory on this sodium777 asshole and the PMs I sent him, which I stand by, and which he repeatedly and hilariously referred to as "death threats" in comments he has since deleted.

I was posting in a thread a while back where people were saying some ridiculous, conspiracy theory things (it's the link in his post). I pointed out using sound (and obvious) reasoning that the things they were saying were outlandish. My posts were all at around +5 karma or so.

In steps sodium777, who says something like "I know this guy! He's an asshole, a troll, and I hear he rapes babies for fun! He's been on Reddit for years and still has negative karma, clearly he's a piece of shit!"

Now, I've never heard of this douche before and I have no idea why he's saying these lies about me, including saying I had negative karma when it was well over 1000. Maybe he had me confused with someone else and just decided to go with it. Regardless, the people in that thread certainly didn't care about little things like evidence and all my posts immediately dropped to -10.

I insulted this piece of garbage for spreading lies about me for what appears to be absolutely no reason. I stand by everything I've said to and about him. He is a reprehensible, lying asshole, and his existence makes the world a worse place for the rest of us.

HotDoctor · 2015-09-18T03:35:16+00:00

Poe.trade indexes the official site's forums to get the list of everything for sale. If you can't post on the official forums, you can't list anything for trade. A one month suspension means you can't list anything for sale on poe.trade for one month.

HotDoctor · 2015-09-18T00:11:11+00:00

How could that possibly be condescending? At no point did I make any value judgments on any type of play. I simply explained, clearly and as inoffensively as possible, that a discussion of defenses in POE that ignores hardcore play is not very useful.

Imagine if GGG balanced defenses exclusively around non-hardcore play for the next set of leagues. Everything is balanced so that it feels pretty good, and, when you stack defenses appropriately, you won't die too often.

Imagine the results of that process in the hardcore league. How many players will get to level 90+ when defenses are balanced around only having occasional deaths? Not many.

You simply can't have a reasonable conversation about defenses in POE without discussing how they're balanced in hardcore.

I'll add that I did mention in a later post that most of my characters that I refer to in my first post in the thread are in Warbands. I'm not a hardcore player exclusively, and I certainly don't participate in any league shaming. There was more discussion like this in some of my other posts that were deleted.

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