The attempts to smear me and my reputation, and harm the site.

I'm not sure how many of you are aware of the group of people who
repeatedly try to damage this board, distract the users and cause problems and drama.

But they ARE there.

They repeatedly join, post statements that cause confusion and sow lies to
make people doubt my character. Whenever guest posting or non-moderated
users are allowed, they spampost. Post unfounded claims. They take up issues
between users and make them their own, to make themselves important, or to
take joy out of the pain they cause.

It's called "[size=-1]Schadenfreude"[/size]. It means to take malicious joy out of another's misfortune.

A lot of people wonder "why did so and so leave".

The truth of the matter is a small group of people tried to turn people against
each other to create drama and controversy, to make themselves seem
"insiders" or important to the interactions of members on this board.

So where do these people get these ideas?

Most of us here aren't very involved with the internet. We log on, check news
and posts. However, some people lurk on irc channels 14 hours a day. A
perceived slight or lack of "respect" for them (as they are so esteemed in their
own opinions) becomes an direct insult in their minds.

After several hours of feeding this back and forth between themselves, they
are filled with indignation. Meanwhile, normal people haven't even logged on
yet. However this bomb of seething anger is brewing, to be released upon the
forums and myself.

So what causes this in these people?

Ego. Perceived importance. Imbalance. Jealousy.

All boards need moderation of posts to keep them on topic, for the removal of
instances when users flame each become perceived disrespect.

A simple moderation of a user-user spat, becomes an insult upon the
important person who is old engineer.

People in irc pass back and forth how the moderators conspire, hate, loathe
them. How the other person in the arguement was being "sided with".

There comes a point when you think you are so important, you believe it
yourself. At that point moderation becomes impossible.

So these uninvolved people, these cheerleaders of discontent go to work.

Some people take themselves so seriously,so narcissistically, that ANY change
to any thread or post they are part of is perceived as a direct insult, and they
fall right into the hands of these uninvolved people.

To make things worse, some people don't post their concerns if they feel
"wronged". They make no attempt for the issue to be resolved calmly and
logically. We ARE a community.

So they don't even ask the admin about the "wrongs". They do find waiting
ears on IRC, and are fed lie upon lie. They get this burning feeling of injustice in
them until they inexplicably demand to leave.

YOU CAN'T TREAT ME LIKE THIS I AM SPECIAL, AND SO AND SO SAID YOU SAID
THIS ABOUT ME SECRETLY!!

While this is going on, you have the little fish darting about with false and
inflamatory statements.

"The mods don't like you"
"The mods are doing it to spite you"
"I heard so and so say that the mods said this and this about you"

The main people doing this were programming ace, skitzo, and a few others.

They repeatedly tried time and time again to sabotage my efforts to fix the
situation with old engineer. Relaying third party statements, and intentionally
causing problems. I almost had him convinced to listen to logic, but their stream
of lies won. Old engineer left. He had been insulted to the point he HAD to
leave.

All without ever talking to the site admin, or posting his concerns before acting
to leave. Plus, in an act of revenge, he gutted his posts of all useful content. To
spite "those people".

If old engineer think that these people are his confidants, his friends, he is
sorely mistaken. They are two faced people who cause trouble just to do so.

So old engineer leaves. He thinks "The mods hate me/ side with others/ disrespect me" He fully believes their lies.

But there isn't enough trouble for these people.
We then have a round of "bye bye tour" and "leaving" posts,
intentionally trying to create havok.

We all remember the hack attacks from the sonic Xtreme auction.
Well these same sonic people are in the same irc channel as these
former site members. And they work together. They share a common hatred of me and the site. They could care less about the community. They want
to destroy it. Like the barbarians at the gates to rome, they want to destroy
what is better than they have / are.

So in response to them leaving, if you want to leave, leave.
They just wanted to create confusion. Even as late as today, programming ace
is still trying to guest post and read the forums, when he so vehemently wanted to leave. So it's not that they wanted to leave. It's that they wanted to
start trouble. He's still here, reading this, and it's not for the gaming content or
articles. He's here reading so he can feed people drama and lies and create more trouble.

Yet these people are NOT satisfied. They have a grudge.

So they log on, and say things like:

"He stole my money"
"He never sent user x his item"

Mind you they aren't even involved with user "x", and the situation was resolved weeks ago. They pick up these situations and twist them to
give themselves ammo to to smear me.

Now I have openly said, over and over, if anyone has a problem with
a transaction to email me. (assemblerex@gmail.com)

I bend over backwards to make sure that my transactions go well.
Please keep in mind that I sell an awful lot of stuff, and problems do occur.

I should be allowed as a business to make the logical attempts to claim on insurances and make claims on items in the due process of fixing situations.

I am an honest man. If you feel you have been wronged, e-mail me and I will address your problems.

Site donations:

There's a lot of attempts to smear me on this. That I spent it on a 360, that I spent it on this, that, etc. That I shouldn't try to get donations as I have a "good job".

The whole point of donations is that we're a community. We're supposed to help out when the site is in need. Is it too much to ask for donations?

Here we have a site with no ad banners, no adwords, no censorship. Dedicated server so we answer to NO ONE.

This costs me $160 +6% tax per month. In the last two years I have spent over
$4000 just so you have the ability to read posts and enjoy information without being hounded by banners or ads.

I collected enough donations to buy us a VBB license, and to have some backup funds. The backup funds are in a bank account for a rainy day. I even have a thread keeping accounts with the money spent.

Yet some people feel jealous that I have a job, and that I own a 360, and that I am not dirt poor. They wish I had none of the above. So they attack me. "Rich boy collecting money, stealing your money, etc."

I ask that you be aware of the extreme costs to myself that this site creates,
and to express some understanding, if not some gratitude.


Atttack the "rich boy" "asshole"

Just by being the site owner, for arranging it so that hard to get games
appear for sale, I get flamed and attacked. For I hold the key to
"treasures" they desire, but as jobless slouches, have no money to buy.
How dare he sell what I demand to have for free! Rich asshole is
hoarding what we want! Attack!

PERSONALLY ATTACKED.

We had the whole sonic hoax, and my home internet was attacked, the server
was crashed, my ip addresses were banned, and all my EBAY AUCTIONS are
sabotaged.

So basically just for owning this site, I no longer have an outlet to use ebay.
These people are so spiteful over items they desire and cannot have, they
try to harm me as much as possible, for I am the enemy.

I even had my life threatened several times.

To sum things up, I spend an awful lot of money on the site, and I get an awful
lot of shit over it. Even as far as suffering financially and to get threats.

I hope now that I have expalined things you understand the situation, and any
bad thoughts that these people have put in your head are now removed.

Please don't believe the lies and slander.

I am willing to suffer through all this as I believe in this site, and the vision behind it.

As with all things that stand out as good, there are people who seek to destroy
it and ruin it's reputation. Much like how the press tries to slander a popular
actor. It's good drama, and it gets them attention.

All I ask is that you trust me further.

You've been with me this far since way back in 1995, and I hope that you will
now see these trolls for what they are and won't play into their lies.

-ASSEMbler

 

Some of my trouble relates that I can't do business on ebay without it
affecting me here.

I sell items, and only ship insured as I can't 100% guaranted that everything is perfect.
I sell too much to test every single item 100%.

The problem is I have a lot of items people consider rare, so when they get (for example)
one of the many TEST ps2 I have, it's a big deal to them, and some of them
unrealistically expect perfection and 100% dream system.

If you want a new in box, buy the nib one for $600, don't come and yell at me
when you spend $320 and it's not "new".

The times whem people get an item and it doesn't work, all the sudden I'm
ripping them off, and of course they didn't keep the box or file for insurance.
Of course this is months later, after they've put a 9800 pro in a system with a
50 watt power supply.

I made the mistake of not sending insured a few times, and I wound up sending someone a THREE green psone debugs just to get the situation taken care of.
I lose money sometimes, but I do so to make sure that I have a completed transaction.

It's easy to say "oh you didn't pay insurance, sorry"
Instead I wind up sending / swapping units and lose money.
So I had to take a hard line approach. No warranty / insured the item is what you
see.

And yes, I do have people I sell items to and they refuse to send them back even broken
for a refund as the item is so rare. So instead they hold this over my head forever..
I am willing to give you a refund ! If you refuse, you have no right to talk shit about me forever. I sold skitzo a beater blue psone debug for $50. Well below normal price.
It arrived not working, so I said, fine I will send you a refund. But no, he refused the refund, held onto it, and then spent $30 for a laser to fix it. he then held it over my head for ages.

If I go to the point of offering you a 100% refund , you have no right to give me shit.

It's like digital press, I sold him a gameboy vision, insured. He tells me like a year later,
it didn't work. I mean, why you telling me a year later? It was insured for a reason.
But still I get reminded, harassed. There's a certain cut off to my obligation to any sale.
Yet people will still hold a grudge. That's just the way people are.


The current issues I have:

Buyatari: Somehow the green debug I sold him had no back io cover.
It's taken me several months to get one of those damn io covers for him,
but I made the effort and just sent it to him. Why? because I care to make sure
everyone is happy.

Sometimes I feel like I'm under a giant magnifying glass, and I can't do ANYTHING
without being picked apart.