MSX Banzai's complete lack of ethics

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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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

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..

@Alex G.: Full Ack!