Do you all feel this way ?

[Rik Meleet]

I received a complaint from an -yet not to be named- ISDG-member.
Do you all agree with this or not ?

Cleverly hidden within this letter, for added incentive to read onward, is one lie. Not a lie of statistical or grammatical error, but a ludicrous falsehood at once so absurd as to strike the reader as an insult to human intelligence, and yet so wanton as to convince the reader that Turnplayer Rik Meleet advertises his strict morality solely to shift attention away from his many vices. The full truth of my conclusion I shall develop in the course of this letter, but the conclusion's general outline is that I have absolutely no idea why Rik Meleet makes such a big fuss over post-structuralism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that Rik Meleet keeps saying that we ought to worship petulant manipulators of the public mind as folk heroes. For some reason, Rik Meleet's loyalists actually believe this nonsense. I firmly believe that disloyal conformism and Rik Meleet's hatchet jobs are one and the same. In that context, one could say that whenever there's an argument about Rik Meleet's devotion to principles and to freedom, all one has to do is point out that I cannot too often emphasize the simple fact that Rik Meleet's allegations are dangerous to the health of a democracy. That should settle the argument pretty quickly. Rik Meleet periodically puts up a facade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual.

While he has a right to his opinion, he maliciously defames and damagingly misrepresents everyone and everything around him. There's a word for that: libel. I have a problem with Rik Meleet's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that he is a bearer and agent of the Creator's purpose; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I can guarantee the readers of this letter that our path is set. By this, I mean that in order to declare a truce with Rik Meleet and commence a dialogue, we must bear witness to the plain, unvarnished truth. I consider that requirement a small price to pay because prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially Rik Meleet's mudslinging form of it -- is.

My prediction that Rik Meleet would promote violence in all its forms -- physical, sexual, psychological, economical, and social -- came true so quickly, so brutally, so horribly, that even I was stunned by the magnitude and viciousness of it all. Moving on, if you're the type who dares to think for yourself, then you've probably already determined that at their mildest, his prevarications still manage to damn this nation and this world to Hell. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that we can divide his quips into three categories: uncouth, capricious, and materialistic. If we can understand what has caused the current plague of what I call pouty geeks, I believe that we can then draw a picture of what we conceive of under the word "ultramicrochemistry".

What Rik Meleet does in private is none of my business. But when he tries to renege on an incredibly large number of promises, I object. Perhaps except for a few bright spots, Rik Meleet's screeds are utterly hate-filled, but remember that we should agree on definitions before saying anything further about his incendiarism-oriented, morbid blanket statements. For starters, let's say that "radicalism" is "that which makes Rik Meleet yearn to identify political and religious groups that are his political enemies and re-label them as 'perfidious freebooters' in order to justify operations against them."

With friends like him, who needs enemies? I mean, a person who wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of his/her actions. Rik Meleet has never had that faculty. He always does what he wants to do at the moment and figures he'll be able to lie himself out of any problems that arise. He presents himself as a disinterested classicist lamenting the infusion of politically motivated methods of pedagogy and analysis into higher education. Rik Meleet is eloquent in his denunciation of modern scholarship, claiming it favors catty stingy-types. And here we have the ultimate irony, because when Rik Meleet was first found trying to preach hatred, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the people I love. And now that Rik Meleet is planning to take advantage of human fallibility to abridge our basic civil liberties, I'm decidedly terrified. I close this letter along the same lines it opened on: My prayers go out to everyone who was hurt by Turnplayer Rik Meleet.

 

[classical_hero]

Isn't the whole thing a lie? That's my thoughts on this. I totally disagree with what that person says.

 

[DaveShack]

Well, the writing certainly points to a specific individual, though I won't speculate.

I can find neither a point to this diatribe, nor anything which seems to be based in fact. It is so unfocused as to be useless -- except possibly for recycling the virtual paper and using it to wipe one's ....

I'm actually a bit surprised you chose to print it.

 

[Provolution]

Smells like the Disclosure letter at CDG by the way, only he writes like that. Notice the smear letter on my diplomacy work. CIA got methods for aligning semantics, choice of words and etymological preferential structure with identity. It is an academic DNA print.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Let me tell you; I wrote it. Well... wrote ? I found a complaint generator and filled in my name. It's a joke.

 

[Provolution]

Haha , please send me the link.

 

[Rik Meleet]

It's here: http://www.pakin.org/complaint

 

[RegentMan]

Wow... when I read this, all that was going through my head was "What the hell?" What does this have to do with civ? Why would one take the time to write such a horrible letter about a very important member of the team?

...then I read post five. T'would have been better to wait for a bunch of us to post our reactions before spilling the beans. You might have been surprised at some of the comments. "Yeah awesome letter!" or "Sicko Rik!" might have come up...

 

[Rik Meleet]

Wow... when I read this, all that was going through my head was "What the hell?" What does this have to do with civ? Why would one take the time to write such a horrible letter about a very important member of the team?

...then I read post five. T'would have been better to wait for a bunch of us to post our reactions before spilling the beans. You might have been surprised at some of the comments. "Yeah awesome letter!" or "Sicko Rik!" might have come up...

When people started to insinuate and name other civ-players the joke was over for me. I had fun though. And the joke can catch still, even with post #5 present. You are the example of that.

 

[DaveShack]

Now I feel bad about being suspicious.

Looks like it might be a fun site to pull on unsuspecting folk, if you're sure they won't go off the deep end on seeing the stuff it produces.

 

[Matrix]

Good one, Rik.

I read the CDZ thread about this stuff and thought some guy from their team pulled a joke. But I didn't think you'd be behind this.

 

[RegentMan]

And the joke can catch still, even with post #5 present. You are the example of that.

It took me a few minutes, but I got it! I never said that I was the fluffiest pillow in the pillow store...

 

[Hygro]

Let me tell you; I wrote it. Well... wrote ? I found a complaint generator and filled in my name. It's a joke.

You know, I actually had suspected that it was something random, especially considering how uncharacteristic this attitude would of the two players on this team that write anything that convoluted.

 

[Goonie]

Who did Dave suspect?

 

[Rik Meleet]

Who did Dave suspect?

Let's keep that to ourselves.

 

[akots]

Looks like a spam to me.

Are we all allowed to spam here then?

 

[classical_hero]

Looks like a spam to me.

Are we all allowed to spam here then?

Good point. Especially since a Mod is behind it.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Trust me, spamming is not the fun it is. And it certainly is hard work.

On some forum I had a daily post count averagely of 70+ And got to 1000 posts within a week. That's where I realised that spamming -although not allowed on this forum- actually is hard !

Since we have a common goal (to win the ISDG) the definition of SPAM is a bit different here than on many other parts of CFC. Some posts that can be seen as SPAM on the other parts of CFC, can be seen as "team building" in the ISDG forum. A joke once in a while is "team building". Useless posts and jokes too often is "SPAM".

 

[Hygro]

To expound, Rik, places like the ISDG need the least (read virtually none) moderation simply do to our size and purpose. Off topic comments don't clog the cogs and cause problems.

 

[Pegster]

i so completely agree!
rick is such a tard and should be locked up ASAP!

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