Netscape Navigator takes on contributors. When the 1% rule gets broken.

     Folks,

ZeigfeldGirl just got banned cos she was returning Neophiles favors (IE. sinking & neg'ing him, OK, plus diss'in him too.). This is pathetic, as he has been doing the same to ZG for some time. (quoted from gordonbjoy via messages)

    Neophiles has earned himself a neat nickname. "Nastyphile"

     I'm now actively (not asking for your participation) doing the same. If this "Navigator" has neither the nous nor the balls to play, he does not deserve to be where he is.(quoted from gordonbjoy via messages)

     Game on, glove's off !!!. (quoted from gordonbjoy via messages)

1. "Yeah bloodjunkie from digg was always full of himself. This story sux. SINK!"

2. "I don't know why ZGirl even bother posting this content... 8 Sinks and climbing... does Derek van Vliet have such a bad reputation for sinking stories and tagging comments negatively that this story can't even score a vote???".

3. "Finally, great communities have great leaders. It appears that you have been neglecting your duties as the leader most Diggers consider you to be." Derek, aren't you considered a leader of this community?

4. "Don't bury content based on who submits it." Hold yourself to that same standard.

5. "I just wanted to re-iterate the most important point I can think to make on this topic: keep your eye on the ball. The ball, in this case, being the content. Don't bury submissions based on who submitted them. You aren't solving anything by doing that."

6. "Certainly this is not going to help Mr. N's apparent economic plight."

7. "Grey N avatars for everyone!"

8. "Sink his submits and vote his comments down...he will get the hint that a navigator of HIS status has no were near the credibility (based on his resume) to vote on anything more than a cartoon without the approval of CK!"

9. "N you are are on restriction!"

10. "I suppose this has something to do with him getting a new job at some blog and this is his way of submitting his 2 week notice."

Finally the note from Z as she speaks out:
Hello everyone!
I'm not sure if you will get this message, since I have been BANNED! Here is the message I received from
Dakota:

Hi: You have been banned from making comments due to your submission of stories about Derek. Please try to participate at Netscape in a mature manner and we will un-ban you.

Best, Dakota

     Now I ask you, what was wrong with the stories I posted? Were they inaccurate? Were they mean? Most of them were written by Neophile himself. As many of you know, Neophile has been discovered as the sniper, the person using the Friends Activity Bar to snipe a certain group here on Netscape. He is also a seemingly compulsive sinker, targeting the same group. I felt we should know more about this person. I know we can post things about the anchors and navigators personally, since Neophile himself posted CK's personal blog the other day. So I fail to see what rule I violated. If they were bad stories, why weren't they closed? Neophile himself fixed the link to one of them. Apparently he whined to Dakota about it. Because as Joeeddie astutely pointed out, these stories contained some interesting info coined by Neo himself:
(Don't ask for a Pocket-T from Netscape; Jason er um the new guy is stingy with those.)