Transformer5
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- 17 May 2017
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Just wondering what people make of the Dave's ESL Cafe website, and the Japan forum. I was posting there for a while but had my account banned after getting into a slanging match with a particularly rude and patronizing poster calling himself Taikibansei (apparently he's a Uni ESL Lecturer and has had some involvement with the Union (presumably the General Union or NAMBU )). The mods decided that him insulting and ridiculing me (for no other reason than he took exception at a comment I made that wasn't even made at him) was fair game, but me returning fire in a similar way was unacceptable, and banned my account without warning.
Has anybody had similar experiences on that site, and/or with this particular poster? I noticed that some other threads on there involving him had warnings and edits posted by the mods, so it seems that he causes a certain amount of trouble there but is allowed to get away with it while others aren't. That would appear to be one reason why that site is virtually dead in the water: a combination of the attitude of one or two "respected" posters, and incompetent moderating.
I notice also that, despite banning me, the site hasn't kept the rest of my posts, so anybody checking in there can read and perhaps benefit from information I've posted. They're taking a massive liberty banning someone but keeping hold of all of their posts.
Has anybody had similar experiences on that site, and/or with this particular poster? I noticed that some other threads on there involving him had warnings and edits posted by the mods, so it seems that he causes a certain amount of trouble there but is allowed to get away with it while others aren't. That would appear to be one reason why that site is virtually dead in the water: a combination of the attitude of one or two "respected" posters, and incompetent moderating.
I notice also that, despite banning me, the site hasn't kept the rest of my posts, so anybody checking in there can read and perhaps benefit from information I've posted. They're taking a massive liberty banning someone but keeping hold of all of their posts.