From: Caffeine
To: raw
Posted: 06-09-2006 07:25 PM
Subject: Tormentius and abuse of moderator abilities
Hello raw. Tormentius told me that you are the admin. I would like to report moderator abuse by that same person. In the Technology & Troubleshooting thread titled "Vista Beta 2 now available to the public", Tormentius edited my second post responding to him (removing all of the content), deleted my third post talking about that, and then deleted all of my posts in that thread.
Also, he claims to have contacted you on my behalf. Frankly, I think that he's probably lying about something(s) in order to have me banned. I asked him whether I could see what he sent to you "on my behalf" but he did not send it to me.
I have included my first two posts below.
Caffeine's first post, deleted by Tormentius wrote: How odd... I don't remember XP betas being made available to the public at large. MS must be rather desperate to get Vista code on people's PCs. All the more reason for me to avoid it, especially after reading that Windows Genuine Advantage 'phones home'. What fun stuff will be in Vista, I wonder? (Aside from more DRM, which I already know about.)
Caffeine's second post, deleted by Tormentius wrote:Wow, insults again. That's pretty sad, considering that you're a moderator (who are, by definition, supposed to be moderate).Tormentius wrote: In the future you might want to do a better job of educating yourself before spouting stupidity.
Where did I contradict that in what I wrote? Oh, that's right -- NOWHERE. BTW, can you prove that the undisclosed feature "doesn't include personal information?"Genuine advantage phones home to get updated lists of pirated product keys and doesn't include personal information in the transmission. If you don't have a pirated copy of Windows then it doesn't interfere with anything you're doing.
I doubt that very much. I think MS is indeed desperate to get people excited about Vista, considering all of the features that were dropped from it and the addition of DRM to it.As for "desperation" MS is simply opening their long-standing corporate beta testing program to the public and its evidently being very well received. If anything its the public who "desperately" wants to get their hands on the new OS.
Why do so many of Vista's features look like they were copied from MacOS X and KDE, then?Like most of MS' projects, feature sets are based on customer requests, usually made by corporations.