Please remove this thread, as it's totally messed up in several levels.

Nice try BiFi

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I'll probably get banned after this, but I must sincerly apologise of posting that april fools and have taken that particular one offline. I did have great doubts before posting it... So it was not GuyveR800 who posted it, but me.

If you had great doubts, then why did you post it in the first place? And with implying that you posted it, you also imply that someone else made up the 'joke'. I'd like to know who this was. The 'joke' also seemed to have a serious undertone, so I'm curious to find out in what way exactly I have abused my father's disease. With you and Patriek Lesparre being responsible for the contents of MSX Banzai, you still have been part of something that is hard to forgive. Clearly there was no one in the MSX Banzai/#msxdev team who objected to the joke in any way for almost 24 hours.

There's nothing funny about saying that I abuse(d) the disease of my father. A line like that can only have the intention to hurt. Even on April Fools. Whether my father had already passed away or not, does not change a single thing about that. I opened up on something very private on the MRC to let people know why I temporarily lost my motivation to post news on MRC and I'm deeply shocked that someone uses this as an opportunity to hurt me.

I have no problem with anyone being against MRC, Bazix and/or Snout, but the fact that some people are prepared to go -this- far only to hurt me is sickening. If you want to explain what I/we are doing wrong and what I/we should change or why I/we should stop use facts, clear argumentation and reason. Now, the throwing of mud, spreading of FUD and the intention of hurting people has only reached a new low. If you have to be so hateful, low and immoral to make your point (what point, exactly?) clear, then you -are- in my opinion a disgrace.

By posting this 'joke' on the MSX Banzai website alone you, BiFi, have done something that is hard to forgive. I do appreciate that you have removed the 'joke' and apologized, though.

p.s. the 'gay pride' April Fools is not particularly tasteful either. You're not hurting me with it, but I think there are few people who can laugh about it. It tells more about how you guys think about gay people than it does about me, eh?

as for the banning part: you might have noticed that we don't ban people for apologizing on the MRC, we do ban people for -not- apologizing and cooling down, but instead turning up the heat, though.

MRC to officially rename itself Bazix Propaganda Center (april fools)

..and this one is also getting boring, childish and tiresome.. It's something even my 12yo niece wouldn't come up with anymore, she's too mature for that already.

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MRC to officially rename itself Bazix Propaganda Center (april fools) ..and this one is also getting boring, childish and tiresome.. It's something even my 12yo niece wouldn't come up with anymore, she's too mature for that already.

This is a matter of taste, but isn't a personal attack. You can debate weather or not you can find this amusing. The other april fools 'joke' was a direct and personal attack.

I am still quite new here (not even 1,5 years or so), so maybe I didn't get it all yet, but I never had the feeling, that MRC is spamming with Bazix advertisements. I am just impressed about MRC all the time and people like Snout and Wolf keeping it up and running, so I don't understand such attacks from other sides (hidden behind "april jokes" ) . Probably I am not deep enough in it, but it sounds like jealousy of what MRC achieved. Just my two cents

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Well, I hate you manuel for filling this forum with ugly white (blank) characters Looks a bit like a scrambled image....

Well, install correct fonts or so... For those who didn't, I'll repeat the message:

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Patsie: it isn't a personal attack indeed, and not even half as bad as the direct attack was, but it is part of the continuing efforts of a small group of people to demotivate MRC crew members and put the MRC in bad light. It's something I'd rather see put to an end as well.

Still, this topic is first and foremost about the highly disrespectful way two or more people intended to hurt me, for which I'd gladly receive an explanation and apology. Behavior like this does not belong in the MSX community and should not be tolerated. The fact that another MRC user wished an MRC crew member a slow and painful death today only shows how far out of line some people want to go to have their usual mindless flamewars. This is where I draw the line, it had gone too far already, but this is the point where it really has to stop.

maybe someone else should apologize too, for jumping to conclusions to fast

Gayver.. huhu, he said.. yeah yeah.
nevermind.

I personally don't give a damn shit about April fools, mocking or calling names. It sometimes makes me laugh, even when I'm the "victim". Fingerpointing is more of a bad taste, imho. (If I'm the man, then you're the man as well)
But, indeed, there's a limit. Saying some stupid stuff about some one's family might be harmfull. But I'd rather have some braindead idiot call me names than a sane person....

now lez or be gay

No matter how you look at it, what was published on that page is unjustifiable.

Ro: Maybe that's how it works for you, but to me it doesn't work like that. As domain-owner and webmaster, Patriek Lesparre is responsible for the contents of MSX Banzai, and whether he likes it or not one of the persons responsible for the 'joke' being online on the frontpage for so long.

There are currently two or three persons involved

a] The person who made the 'joke' (GuyveR or unknown?)
b] The person who published the 'joke' (BiFi, who kind of apologized, but despite doubt thoughtfully published it anyway)
c] The person who allowed the 'joke' to be online for so long (Which is GuyveR's main respobsibility when it comes to MSXBanzai)

There are two or three things that bother me:

a] The fact that the joke was made -at all-
b] The fact that the joke was published -at all-
c] The fact that the joke has been online for so long.

I'm amazed that none of the two or three persons involved in publication thought "maybe we were going a bit too far with this" and because of that I can only see the 'joke' as a well-considered attempt to hurt me. The fact that not one, but two or three persons took part in this consideration makes it only worse and more shocking to me. It wasn't just an impulsive bad joke, but something more persons have actually thought about. Allowing something like that to take place on your website and - as an editor - ignoring your doubts and posting it anyway (knowing the pain it could cause) is to me just as bad as making the joke itself. Perhaps even worse. The fact that during the day none of the #msxdev regulars stood up and said something about it worries me as well. On MSXposse, mars2000you even had a good laugh about the posts on MSXBanzai (although not directly referring to the joke about my father's disease).

I'm not exactly flawless myself, but a few people have repeatedly and purposely gone to extreme levels to inflict damage to me personally, MRC, Bazix and the other MRC and Bazix crew members. To my personal liking, those extremes had gone too far already, but this is where I really have to draw the line. If this is behavior we find acceptable in the MSX community, I'd rather close down the entire MSX Resource Center today as it is nothing I want to be a part of and nothing anyone with a brain should want to be a part of if you ask me.

It's okay to disagree, it's okay to have heated discussions (as long as the evolve around facts and proper argumentation), it's okay to dislike me, MRC and/or Bazix but I can not accept or tolerate the fact that a few people think they can have a good laugh about my father dying of cancer, whilst with a serious undertone accentuating my supposed evilness. There can be no question about the intentions that lie behind all this and I purely and deeply detest the persons involved in this tasteless act of impertinence. Removal, an apology and explanation is the least I could ask for.

ro, 1: who owns the page and has his email on the bottom of it, so 2: who's end-responsible for its contents? Add to that the famous style and anger of the remarks, and you can't blame anyone for initially pointing into the wrong direction. The lesson learnt from this is that there now two similar persons to count with in the future.. yay :S

Anyway, 'nuff said I think. Let's hop to the future, possible a brighter one..

Please show some respect! Seriously, I mean: what the hell did he do? Sander: I'm really, really sorry all this. You're support and effort in MRC and Bazix IS BEING APPRECIATED! And that goes for everybody behind the MRC and Bazix: THANKS FOR YOU EFFORT!

How about that for a change? This is not a 'joke'. This is something that's aimed at the person. It has nothing to do with MSX.

@ro: "snout should not use MRC to express" than what should he use? Just swallow it? Send a mail: 'I don't like that, stop it?'. This is ***THE ONLY*** place where stuff like this is to be posted. It's something of the MSX communty. Situations like these don't have any perspective producing anything more positive than 'and let's just leave it at that'.

MRC and Bazix are trying to MAKE someting and people like Patriek Lesparre and the people @ MSX Banzai are trying to BREAK it. That in itself is sad, but hey...WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT? But this, this is personal. Doesn't have anything to do with MSX, so it shouldn't be on MSX Banzai nor MSX.org. But is was, so probably the death of Snout's dad it something ALL OF US should have a say about?

@Bifi. Come on! Please.

I am VERY GLAD that there are people that MAINTAIN to be CREATIVE instead of trying to talk everything down -which if SO easy-. My first reaction was: "Crawl back under your stone you sorry bunch of wankers". And that's just where the problem is. Action => Reaction => Reaction...etc,etc.

w00p, post-flood and double content.. o_o

@Alex G.: Full Ack!