critor wrote:From: Xavier Andréani (
andreanx@hotmail.com)
Sent: Tue 26/11/13 18:26
To:
admin@omnimaga.org (
admin@omnimaga.org)
Cc: juju;
info@tiplanet.org (
info@tiplanet.org); lionel; levak; adriweb
Hi Omnimaga admins,
As an affiliate site of TI-Planet, I think you made a huge error not by banning Lionel, but by banning him without bothering to ask or even tell us.
Because Lionel is a TI-Planet admin - and thus such action is damaging not only Lionel's image/reputation, but also my reputation as I'm working with him, and TI-Planet's reputation.
If we had to ban DJ_Omnimaga, we would at least send you an email or a PM before. Because he is Omnimaga founder, and because his nick does include (again) the Omnimaga name.
This is not a strange idea: when a country accepts a partnership with another country and welcomes his ambassador, this ambassador has the diplomatic immunity. Because judging him like any other citizen of the host country is insulting him, and thus insulting his whole country, a diplomatic incident.
This is a worldwide rule. It doesn't mean that the ambassador can commit any crime in his hosting country. Sanctions are going to be taken by the diplomacy between both countries and not by the hosting country justice. And the diplomacy can take sanctions much worse that the ones the civil justice could have taken.
It's simple: when you're partners, you try not to do things which would hurt the other.
I did start explaining such things to Eeems, presenting the problem.
Here is my first PM below. Note that the PM was only presenting the problem and not asking for anything.
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Hi Eeems
(and Omnimaga admins if this is being forwarded),
I feel totally outraged by the one week long ban you took against Lionel Debroux.
I'm not contesting the sanction and I am not discussing the facts, as I don't even know why he's been banned
(I can only suppose he's been banned for being rude to you).
You have the right to take the decisions you think appropriate on your own website.
But this is the problem: TI-Planet has now been an Omnimaga affiliate for more than 2 years, and has been displaying the clickable Omnimaga banner on every dynamic page generated on the site.
We've spent countless hours working on TI calculators projects, linking news, contests and projects from Omnimaga on TI-Planet, and crossposting TI-Planet news on Omnimaga, thus improving Omnimaga Google indexation and contributing to Omnimaga activity.
Banning an admin of an affiliate site is not a banal action, and you may have been right in doing so
(again, I have no intention of discussing your decisions).
But the least thing would have been to inform
(I didn't tell discuss) the whole affiliate site admin team, and by preference before applying the sanction.
Because of respect, because of mutual trust, because of politeness, and because such a long period strongly impacts the way we can go on working together
(for a concrete exemple, updates to the HP-Prime 3rd party link program can't be shared easily on Omnimaga this week - and this was the main english topic about such project linked wordwide).
I don't know how Lionel does feel, but after years of devotion and fidelity to Omnimaga, I'm personnally feeling insulted by such behaviour.
This message hasn't been intended to offend you, but just to tell you how I feel. If you feel offended, then I may have misphrased something
(remember that english is not my native language) and I apologize for that.
I know we only have rare contacts, although I can tell you I'm often thinking to you.
I've been told that it was useless to try to discuss or argue about anything with you, and that the only thing I would get for expressing my feelings and opinions would be another ban. But I don't want to believe it and I hope we're going to prove this wrong.
Yours sincerely,
Xavier (Critor) Andréani
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That PM may have presented an idea you don't agree with. But it did advance argument and was polite, and thus respecful towards you.
Here is the answer I got from Eeems:
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Take a look at this post:
http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?topic ... #msg313920I don't care how many years the site has been an affiliate. The moment someone threatens and attempts to manipulate our staff members, which is what happened here, I will respond appropriately which in this case is a ban. It is even worse in fact that he is an admin on an affiliate site and he publicly says what he said in that post.
As our rules point out in the first section on it's first bullet point: "The following are disallowed on the Omnimaga forums in any topic at any time. Flaming, flooding, intolerance, and provocative comments."
I will not allow exceptions just because you are an admin on an affiliate site. There are no exceptions and I myself can be banned for breaking the rules. I sent Lionel a pm outlining the reason why we banned him. I will leave it up to him if he wants to share the contents of that PM, and I will tell you now since you have made such a big deal out of it.
When we ban people we reserve the right to only tell the banned individual why we have banned them. You have no right to demand to know why we have banned someone even if they are on your administrative team. If you want to know why they have been banned ask them.
I will not ban you for expressing your feelings in person unless in doing so you break the rules and/or make personal attacks against me or other members of this site.
/e
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I don't know how you speak to your friends nor how they do react, but this is an extremely rude, insulting and inappropriate answer.
We are not friends, not that we don't want to, but mainly because we barely have any contact and know almost nothing personal about each other.
I think that everybody does deserve respect while he shows respect.
The "I don't care" and "how many years" at the very beginning is very insulting towards me and my collegues who did spend countless hours crossposting news between Omnimaga and TI-Planet during now more than two years.
I'm being accused of asking for exceptions (no, my PM wasn't even asking for anything yet), and should have been followed with the next part of the explanation I've put at the start of this email.
And the 'will' instead of 'would' at the end makes me feeling accused of personal attacks.
I did try to avoid explosing like DJ, and just replied by asking for a more respectful reply, a reply which wouldn't start with "I don't care" so we can go on speaking.
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Did you notice that my message was polite and respectful, and that your reply isn't ?
"I don't care" is extremely rude.
But I won't jump into the error answering you with your own words.
You should take the time to reread, as you're imagining things and reading between lines.
I never asked for an exception.
Don't try to read between lines with a non-native english speaker.
So, I'm waiting for an appropriate reply.
Critor
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It's now been two days. Eeems asked yesterday to not say anything publicly on the chat and that he would answer the PM after work.
I didn't get anything, which makes me feel even more insulted with the "I don't care" which is becoming more and more true.
So, I'm requesting for:
- an appropriate reply to my email, and in exchange I'll *try* to forget Eeems' inappropriate reply
- your understanding of the problem, and the engagement that no affiliate admin will be banned *like this* again in the future
How? You could just take the time to discuss with us at
info@tiplanet.org, and we may decide for common sanctions which would be applied to the admin on both sites (which might even be worse for the admin in question).
Even if you don't want to discuss, at least the partner admin team will be informed before the ban is performed, and will have some time to think about how to counter/limit the possible reputation damage to the other admins or to the whole website.
I'm asking for your forgiveness, about some sentences which may be incorrect in english - I am not a native enligsh speaker.
I didn't intend to write anything rude or disrespectful in this email.
I hope we'll be able to come to an agreement and to go on working together, for the sake of the whole calculators community.
Yours sincerely,
Xaver (Critor) Andréani