mardi 17 octobre 2017

Papermodelers and Zealot, enough already

For months and years since I left cardmodels.net and Zealot behind, wanting to instead focus on papermodelers.com and the community that all paper modelers share and have in common, I have put my energy into this forum, and promoting the hobby of paper/card modeling.

I wake up to messages in my email, facebook account, and text messages alerting me to this message from John Romero/Zathros, the admin over at Zealot. I have attached the screeenshot I took of the message to this post, and visible below.

I have read his missive, and he is entitled to his opinion, and can express so freely, I too have that same right, to my opinion, and a reply to his statements.

The respect John/Zathros has for me is obvious, twice in his post he has referred to me as Ricstef, technically, that is not me, so I should ignore this.
He wishes me ill will, and hopes that I do suffer a great loss, last time I checked, I am doing quite well, I am working on my future, and for me the sky is the limit. If anyone can ask John/Zathros what kind of great loss I would be facing, that would be great, I can disprove him again.
Frankly, I have no clue what this has to do with the original topic of the post, and why he even posted that statement.

This is now about the 4th or 5th time John/Zathros has mentioned that I need to fall on my sword, so you want me to resign, quit, give up the ghost, yet I am not the one publicly berating another person, basically telling the person to drop dead. If I recall correctly, which I do, I have never said anything publicly to you to wish you harm or shown you ill will, but you doing this in a public forum, shows to me, and the rest of the world what kind of man you are. Maybe it is time for you to fall on your sword.

I am not the one who is persisting this rivalry, Jason and I also have those same emails and private messages, and neither of us have the will nor the energy and time to bother with posting that stuff online.
I have shown on more than one occasion that all people are welcome on the forum, I have never made a distinction nor a request that one has to pledge their loyalty to one forum or another.
I have people who are on Zealot's staff as moderators and admins, who I call friends, and I have no doubt that John/Zathros has friends amongst the staff here on papermodelers.com. I have not, nor will I take action against anyone, it is in my opinion, very childish that people are trying to set the two forums up against one and other, to me it reads as a bad episode or cartoon of Spy vs. Spy. The internet is large enough to have two premier paper modeling forums available to the masses, there is no need for the rivalry, the tearing down, ill will wishing, and whatever other cliche or adage you want to use.

As to the points on bashing, there was none, trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, and sounding the alarms when none were needed. I rightfully pointed out that uhu02 is a member of papermodelers.com and we have members who are fans of his work, and I suggested that if anyone wanted, they could start their own appreciation thread for uhu02, as I have reviewed all of the uhu related threads on the forum I can see no bashing, the occasional grumble that a member missed out on a download, and the hints for this member to seek out the password, all members who have posted in any uhu related thread all have one thing in common, a genuine respect and admiration for the work he has been sharing for free with the hobby world, even I am awed by the work he as done, I just disagree with his practices, he is entitled to do whatever he feels is right, and I am entitled to my opinion, and I will support his right to do what he sees fit with his designs.

I could go in on the other things that are posted, as of right now, I no longer have the energy to keep on writing, and replying. Plus I doubt it will make any difference now anyway.
I am sure this will be relayed to John/Zathros, that is fine, petty, but fine, I am done with this episode now, I could ask for an apology, which I know I will never receive, so I will not ask for one.

Rick

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