> > This is the part that enraged me the most. No one likes it when they're blamed for stuff that they didn't do: along with rage, it instills the feelings of helplessness and frustration.
>
> Then I think you need to do some maturing.

Yes, I do. I'm 14, what do you expect me to be? Jesus?

> I was SHOCKED when you didn't jump at the opportunity

If you ever want me to do this in the future, TELL ME. I am not good at determining this type of thing in real life, let alone when we're separated by 3000 miles of optical fiber and electrical cable.

> Look at what happened when Wes started playing along. It was GOOD.

That's a matter of taste; I found his constant yabberings about conspriacies dull.

> Not that, as an administrator, I expect you to enjoy and participate in every joke. You didn't have to participate. But getting all offended and indignant about it and whining and moaning was not an appropriate alternative. If you had done just that but dropped the matter after it was cleared up, I would still have not held it against you. But the fact that a full day afterward you are still making a big deal out of this is outrageous.

Excuse me? YOU YOURSELF said that you wanted OUR RESPONSES.


> If you don't like the way we joke around in RinkChat as a matter of NORMAL ROUTINE, a routine that for a FULL YEAR has not yet elicited this kind of complaint, then you have the glorious American right to leave, thereby protecting yourself from the remotest possibility of any further attack.

I didn't leave because I don't like running from my problems. What would it say about me if I just left RinkChat every time something I didn't enjoy came up?

And I'm Canadian.

> > ...or had some people left before it was resolved, I could have been blackballed...
>
> Give me a break. You HAD to know that if ANYONE had held a grudge against you, I would have corrected their impression the INSTANT I learned of it. And truth be told, I'd have gone a step further and taken the initiative to make sure everyone knew the truth of things before it ever became an issue.

I'm very very stupid for saying that. Sorry.


> I say to one of them, "Hey, this'll be funny -- go step out of this open doorway, then step back in!"

It not like that at all. I'm chatting, and suddenly, this big red KICK message comes up and slams me in the face. For it to be like the above metaphor you described, you would say, "Hey, Wormwood, leave and then come back."

> Said friend rants and pouts and moans for the next 24 hours.

If I did that, I'd entrust my relatives to make met get professional help. However, I didn't do that: I went to bed, got up the next day, went on with my daily activities, and puttered into the Message Forum to see what was going on. I lanede on your post.

>
> The other thing I would like to point out is that out of an estimated 60-80 REGULAR visitors to the chat room, you are one of just two to object to the occasional frivolous kick.

Because I take it so much differently from everyone else. That's my problem.


> Bottom line: Get a grip. Grow up.

What do you think I've been doing for the last 14 years?