Dearly beloved in OD

We are gathered here today to commemorate the fact that some people on this site have lost their fucking minds.

Now, you probably know that every so often, there be drama.

I remember the last lot, censorgate, in which some idiots, not happy that the note filters had been tightened up, actually openly admitted to breaking the rules.

The latest drama, which is still unfolding, is because some things have been slipping. There’s been a problem with subscription payments and some help desk tickets have been open a while.

So, one of the admin team updated the OD News diary. Simply put, everything is fine, it’s just that people are busy with meatspace stuff.

Panic over, one might think.

Except you’d be wrong.

Cos , you see, the DiaryMaster is no longer involved in the website. Has he stated that? Has there been some post somewhere comfirming this?

No, silly, the people who discovered it did so in the DiaryMasters Linkedin page. Says right there.

What, did these people get hard confirmation from TVTropes?

Oh, no, wait, sorry, they got confirmation from the guys personal twitter account. Not the offical OD one, but his personal one, where he no longer links to OD and spends his time talking about stuff other than OD.

So you take the info from Linkedin, add the “evidence” from Twitter and cue Pte Frazer:

Now, I know that only some of the scaremongers are reporting first hand. The rest are basing their evidence on these first people. NotKiernan has an excellent entry on the subject.

I’m going to look at the evidence. Analyse it. Cos, FSM forbid, I do anything rational like that.

First of all, Linkedin. This is a social networking site for jobs, basically. Is it not at all possible that DiaryMaster has, y’know, fibbed a little bit for reasons that we don’t know? After all, if he had, he’d be the very first person ever to not be honest on a social netwroking site! /sarcasm

Then the Twitter account. First of all, the tweets themselves. How very dare he, use his personal Twitter account to talk about whatever he wants! Doesn’t he know that it should be all OD all the time?

Then the website change. Strangely enough, I never imagined that OD was the only site that the DiaryMaster has ever worked on. (In fact, I remember years ago, on his personal diary, pimping another site he was involved in). Given what he has built here, I can see people wanting his input about things.

Now, it may just be me, but it’s entirely possible that the new link from his Twitter account is a new website he’s involved in that he’s decided might need the traffic more than a site that has been established for years?

Don’t be silly will. That kinda thinking involves Earth logic.

(And I’m not going into the sort of stalker crazy it takes to look up his personal accounts on Linkedin and Twitter.)

Let’s see who I’ll believe. The site admin, involved in the running of the site, or information taken from social networking?

People who work behind the scenes, or the gleanings from 140 characters?

Not hard to work that one out.

If I can’t get into OD for a week, then I’ll panic.

Until then, could people please CALM THE FUCK DOWN!

Will

P.S. It takes a special kind of insane to compare owning a diary on a website to systematically being beaten up by your other half