Being a member of Animesuki for 15 years, I have seen its community dwindle and dwindle as years went by. It was once the prime forum to discuss anything related to Japanese animation, manga, Japanese culture, video games, other entertainment, and sometimes news and politics. However, the behavior from its main moderator (and now administrator as well) has been nothing short of despicable. A number of times, I have been handed bans for so-called "baiting" or "flaming" when all we did was expressing my opinion on something that I did not agree with. Now he perma-banned an account from a relative of mine on the basis of "duplicating an account during a ban" without adding further proof of the accusation. To that moderator, voicing discontent in an adult discussion is not allowed and is passible of more infraction points. Very disappointing for a 37-year-old if you ask me.
All I can say is that this behavior is not new, one of Animesuki's former members posted this blog a few years ago:
https://animehistory.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/the-day-animesuki-decided-oppressing-a-voice-was-more-important-than-accomodating-all-viewpoints/
At the expense of leaving behind a number of classy members, I told the moderator all that had to be said to mean that I quit. However, it's really sad when one thinks that a forum, which was once full of passionate people, is going to the dogs because of one person at the top being such a d!ck. In my 15 years over Animesuki, other mods were more polite and more lenient through editing posts and sending private messages instead of dishing infraction points without further explanation. With relentlessflame though, nothing can reason him.
I hope you will add him on your hall of shame now: relentlessflame of forums.animesuki.com
Being a member of Animesuki for 15 years, I have seen its community dwindle and dwindle as years went by. It was once the prime forum to discuss anything related to Japanese animation, manga, Japanese culture, video games, other entertainment, and sometimes news and politics. However, the behavior from its main moderator (and now administrator as well) has been nothing short of despicable. A number of times, I have been handed bans for so-called "baiting" or "flaming" when all we did was expressing my opinion on something that I did not agree with. Now he perma-banned an account from a relative of mine on the basis of "duplicating an account during a ban" without adding further proof of the accusation. To that moderator, voicing discontent in an adult discussion is not allowed and is passible of more infraction points. Very disappointing for a 37-year-old if you ask me.
All I can say is that this behavior is not new, one of Animesuki's former members posted this blog a few years ago:
https://animehistory.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/the-day-animesuki-decided-oppressing-a-voice-was-more-important-than-accomodating-all-viewpoints/
At the expense of leaving behind a number of classy members, I told the moderator all that had to be said to mean that I quit. However, it's really sad when one thinks that a forum, which was once full of passionate people, is going to the dogs because of one person at the top being such a d!ck. In my 15 years over Animesuki, other mods were more polite and more lenient through editing posts and sending private messages instead of dishing infraction points without further explanation. With relentlessflame though, nothing can reason him.
I hope you will add him on your hall of shame now: **relentlessflame** of forums.animesuki.com
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