I just wanted to post a quick note of support for Violet Crumble...

[boston bean]

152. I have to agree with you here. How the person that broke hosting rules

becomes the victim, while others who point it out become the bad guys, is really twisted.

I like violet, it did seem to be out of character, but I alerted her within 10 minutes of her locking that thread that it was going to cause havoc in the hosts forum. You don't lock thread without some sort of agreement, and the thread was already a leave by hosts of GD when she decided on her own to lock by a request/pm from quinnox. Her reasoning for doing so was because she felt that if he deleted it, it would cause him more trouble. I don't know exactly what their private emails were about, but that is what she stated as a reason for locking. He had already stated in the thread in question he was never going to delete it. This whole thing could have been avoided had the etiquette of hosting been followed. The persons who were upset that action was taken are not bullies, not out to get her, and are not the bad guy. They were trying to keep things on track and be fair to other DU members, who do not have the liberty of friendly hosts locking their posts out of embarrassment or locking their own posts. Making it look like the hosts had a problem with it. They have to delete. That is their only option.

It's twisted beyond belief. I tried my best to keep it on topic and not personal. I tried to alert her to the error very quickly and there was no response for a full 12 hours. The next response from her come tto find out was that she unlocked (quietly) without alerting the hosts of GD and he had re-locked himself. Those actions are what put this gaming of the system into action. It was those actions that disrupted the hosts forum. Not those pointing out the gaming.