the guy believes harassment and abuse of others is justified if they've done something wrong (ie. they have the wrong political opinions, they removed him from the lounge)
this alone is wrong, treating people like shit isn't justified just because you don't agree with them
but it's extra wrong in his case because he then goes and misinterprets situations (label someone right-wing or a nazi without understanding their views, thinks kyle did something to him in the lounge situation) and harasses people based on those misinterpretations.
He's also responsible for the misinterpretations
And you're responsible for enabling him and treating him like a kid
i hate when you post vague posts like these that dont remind people that there was a whole backstory to that, youre just as manipulative and weird as asoul is
we have like fucking 30 ppl who visit this site. im pretty sure almost anyone who is reading this is well aware of the events that have unfolded. quit acting like were giving some speech to people and im misinforming people of anything
its vague and misleading because you purposely leave out details that a majority people who come to this thread (the thread pointed to by the big permanent alert) will not know about
youre just trying to be convincing and not truthful
(called kyle an insufferable prick in a public thread about mods working together as a team)
my manipulation of kyle (kyle I hope you don't mind me paraphrasing but it isn't anything either of us haven't said in public. feel free to delete the post if you do not want it said)
summary of my point - I and others intentionally stopped engaging with the site because we expected ewiz would have a blowup (he always does) and as long as I'm not there people can't act like it's "ewiz vs asoul" - like it's some boxing match and not just this guy being unhinged
I try to tell kyle that he also shouldn't be the target of this (it shouldn't be "ewiz vs kyle") because the only way ■■■, kkat are going to understand ewiz is if he comes and bites their head off - which he will, given enough time.
I wanted people to see that he was toxic without me having to tell people (or really being involved at all) because I was tired of people making it about me when I said that
Kyle's response was to talk about how crazy and toxic shit has gotten and talk about how he's frustrated, then ignore my suggestion to stop doing stuff (after that I think he did the lbj lounge ban, which obviously is going to make people mad again, whether it was deserved or not)
■■■'s taken in by someone who talks a big game but delivers nada - this is a very common thing in tech, people who can talk your ear off without actually building anything (because they don't know how) and their hangers-on/followers who fall for the shit because they don't know any better
of course I'm a little biased here because I already think ewiz is all hot air, but I view his suggestion that he might "create a design doc" as peak narcissism - he is essentially saying "let me talk myself into a position where I, having built nothing, tell people who actually know how to build things what to do."
("also let's pretend writing words (and not code) is a real contribution to a technology project and people can just write them, as long as they do so prettily enough to convince the site's dim-witted admin, without actually demonstrating any ability (aka build something first. write a 'design doc' for your working piece of technology after demonstrating it works.)")
so anyway my opinion is the antidote to to much talk, not enough work is to avoid the talk and just build something. I thought about it and figured I could do so if I had an AWS key. Based on rora's comments I assumed ■■■ has an AWS key which he's not rly doing anything with. So I say something along these lines to ■■■ / offer to collaborate with him since I'm assuming he has whatever access I don't have and he also has some thing he's trying to build
■■■'s response:
you're trying to weasel out of doing any work by making up excuses, I know because I do the same thing
you and I are basically the same on this site, I don't know why you think you have less ability to do anything (talking to the person who has had like 6 access keys revoked/re-added randomly by daft admins, basically gave up on doing anything because it's such a waste of time and demoralizing to be disrupted like that)
you only offered to help because you feel guilty about trying to get rid of ewiz when he's actually doing something (?)
Basically dan if anyone's been manipulated here it's you, you were taken in by a snake oil salesman and are now digging in your heels to defend him - despite openly viewing him as a manchild with no control over his own actions
actually my pm with dan is pretty funny and generally friendly so idk why we're at odds at all other than him just looking for anything other than ewiz's actions to pin ewiz's ban on
