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RelentlessOblivion Grand Master

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The drama, AtTheGates, stems from your obviously wanting this to play out in public. If you felt so aggreived by FatherAlabaster's conduct you could have raised it with him personally, or with BAN, myself, or DilatedMind if you were uncomfortable going directly to FA about it. You are correct in asserting it has since passed. My point was that it could have been avoided entirely. How you chose to deal with the situation of course. I find it interesting, however, that you would take this step with regards to FatherAlabaster when Mindy seems to be the user with which you have had the most conflict. In fact you and I have been at odds more then FA and yourself.

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The drama, AtTheGates, stems from your obviously wanting this to play out in public. If you felt so aggreived by FatherAlabaster's conduct you could have raised it with him personally, or with BAN, myself, or DilatedMind if you were uncomfortable going directly to FA about it. You are correct in asserting it has since passed. My point was that it could have been avoided entirely. How you chose to deal with the situation of course. I find it interesting, however, that you would take this step with regards to FatherAlabaster when Mindy seems to be the user with which you have had the most conflict. In fact you and I have been at odds more then FA and yourself.

Why exactly are you being so emotional with this anyway? Why the SHOUTING CAPITAL LETTERS when it doesn't even directly affect you?
Think about this logically. Even by FA's own words we barely spoke or occupied the same space, and when we did it often ended badly. Do you really think going from barely any interaction to none will make much difference? I doubt the forum will fall to pieces because of it.
As for playing it out in public, I'm using Tapatalk. I don't know how to send PMs on this. It's bad enough the fucking thing won't format messages properly without having to use HTML codes (which I barely remember how to do), or show certain pictures. I'm afraid I can't be bothered to mess around with something that barely works in some places thanks. I can't even login to the site with Safari or Chrome and send a message, as I've forgotten my password. And if you think that's a lie or excuse you're welcome to go through my posted messages as I've made mention of it before.
in regards to 'conflict' with Mindy and you there's a major difference... I've interacted with you two far more than I have FA. You both have a far more relaxed and joking attitude. It's much easier to interpret when you're being serious and not. And to my recollection neither of you have made self-admitted jibes at me over completely pointless shit. I could be wrong there however.
I also think FA being a moderator here could be an issue. He seems to have a need to direct the flow of the content of people's posts to a degree. Worrying even a little that a user who isn't posting much on a music forum about music is a little OCD. I've explained why it's that way for now. If FA continues to have an issue with that I see little that I can do to remedy the situation.
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The caps were to drive home the point that a moderator can't simply ignore any given user. FA could not simply ignore you just because it would be convenient. I've been involved here because conflict resolution is part of  the job description. I apologise for wrongfully asserting your playing this out in public was dramatic attention seeking though. Hardly any of your posts have the tapatalk signature attached so I didn't know. If you like I'll have a word to DilatedMind about fixing your password so you can use Safari or Chrome.

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The caps were to drive home the point that a moderator can't simply ignore any given user. FA could not simply ignore you just because it would be convenient. I've been involved here because conflict resolution is part of the job description. I apologise for wrongfully asserting your playing this out in public was dramatic attention seeking though. Hardly any of your posts have the tapatalk signature attached so I didn't know. If you like I'll have a word to DilatedMind about fixing your password so you can use Safari or Chrome.

No worries.
As for Crapatalk, on IOS there is no signature option in the settings that I can find. It's there on Android but not on iPhone for whatever reason.
In regard to FA (for I hope what is the last time) we barely spoke anyway. What's the issue exactly? You say a moderator can't ignore someone when I've already stated I'll be the one doing the ignoring. Last time I checked I wasn't a mod! Barely anything there is changing. I've even said I'd reply under extreme circumstances.
From where I'm standing on this I am doing my bit to keep the piece. Hopefully all that has needed to said has been!
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Just doubled checked all the Crapatalk options and settings and there is no signature option I can find. Odd really when the Android version has one by default. I can't even access the forum's signature option to use that as a temporary solution.
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It should be automated on all devices. When Yobo posts from his iPhone using tapatalk it comes up. I can't access anything but the basic profile information to edit at present.

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Nevermind. It seems they were planning on scrapping the signature thing last year as there are people on several forums asking where the option had gone on IOS. Seems they forgot to do that to even the up-to-date Android version as it still has signatures...
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