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If you can't digest a negative and critical assessment of your own behaviors, I suggest reflecting on whether or not your actions here at AnimeSuki over the years was worth it. While your name may suggest an experienced and fair anime critic to those who read this forum, and you yourself claim to "express myself with sincerity though [you] do try to be provocative at times to stimulate discussion", it is evident that you, as Last_Sinner puts it, live only to cause discord and enmity to raise your own stock. You and I probably would have never crossed paths at all, since I do not actively go out of my way to create drama or rile people up so that they are compelled to issue me with threats. However, in the thread for K-On! The Movie, you crossed the line. When I challenged you, rather than discuss the issue, you proceeded to shut things down by issuing me with negative reputation, knowing that people with red dots were ignored. In the aftermath, I was only able to lurk as a reader, and even after the reputation system was disabled, the stigma attached to my account meant no one would share in a discussion with me.

Attitudes towards K-On! The Movie

To put it bluntly, I have no problems with the fact that you disliked K-On! The Movie to the extent that you did. You are well within your rights to react to media however you wish. The problems lie entirely in your attitude towards others, especially in regard to me. Your aggression and vitriol was unjustified, and while everything in your rant may apply to you, you could not fault me for stepping up and calling out the attitude taken towards presenting those perspectives. You could've said no and not forced yourself to watch a film that was clearly outside the scope of your interests. You could've restrained yourself from insulting the staff that worked on the film. You could have acknowledged that your opinions were yours alone, and that others may enjoy the film anyways. You did none of these things.

In and of itself, I would have left this alone. However, I noticed other forum members, openly state they agreed with some of your gripes before proceeding to explain other aspects they didn't agree with. That they started by agreeing with you struck me as odd, especially considering they were K-On! fans. I therefore made the post that you overreacted to: I asked the forum's other members to agree that your rant wasn't something to discuss in detail and lose sleep over. My goal had been to divert attention away from your perspectives, with the goal of minimizing the number of people from giving more attention to something that should have faded off. Instead, you saw fit to say I was "invalidating your opinions", and armed with your reputation score, proceeded to take my account into the negatives. You patted yourself on the back at a job well done because, for you, that was one "threat" to your legitimacy eliminated.

Reputation really did matter to you

The consequences of this were nontrivial: everything I said subsequently became ignored, and people refused to hold any sort of conversation with me because of the perception that a red dot equated to trouble-making. Thanks to this incident, AnimeSuki became a community I could no longer participate at. You had, by all counts, succeeded in silencing me. However, you did not do so on virtue of your argument's merits. You did so because you exploited a flaw in AnimeSuki. When the decision was made to remove the reputation system, unsurprisingly, you became a vocal proponent of the change. It was favorable to be seen as promoting discussion unfettered by the green dots you had grown accustomed to: you claimed that "the system was frivolous fun" and that "the system did not affect [you] personally", and yet, because you possessed the second highest reputation of anyone at AnimeSuki, it was clear that you were dealt a major blow by this change.

The clout you had wasted years of your life collecting was suddenly disappeared, and to conceal this, you would claim that "[you were] never that gratified when someone gives [you] a green rep". However, having such a high reputation plainly had its advantages. You could single-handedly silence individuals who disagreed with you. While you claimed that "[most of the AnimeSuki user base's members] are overly sensitive and touchy", you were not above being sensitive and touchy enough to silence someone like myself, when all I wanted to do was try to get people to think for themselves. A low-effort attempt, such as slinging neg-rep, clearly is easier than formulating the sort of arguments and discussion you had claimed to be a proponent of, and while you may claim to come up with analysis and viewpoints that were worthy of receiving thanks from others, I've never seen any evidence of that coming from you while you were active.

What's noteworthy, however, is how quickly you reverse gears. Some time later, you claim that if one saw "the post reputation system world of AS as the golden years of discussion here, then that kind of makes [you] sad", implying the reputation system and points created "engaging debate and analysis" because people "enjoyed getting some sort of recognition for the painstaking efforts they put into things like detailed analysis posts or actually engaging others for debate in substantive ways". What you meant to say was, you enjoyed getting these little green dots from a small cabal of like-minded users, and then you could use your reputation points as justification for your belief that opinions aren't created equal.

Opinions aren't created equal, and that includes yours


You are not entitled to having your respected by others, either. In an AnimeSuki without reputation, no one knows how many "substantive" arguments you previously posted. Every post you make is judged on its own merits. After reputation was removed, I noticed a decline in your activity because it looked like it was becoming increasingly unnecessary for people to simply say things like "I agree with Reckoner" because if they'd disagreed with you otherwise, you'd simply give them negative rep. Without this power, you would need to put in the same effort as the rest of the community to be convincing. While you've claimed vocally otherwise, your opinions were only heard because of your reputation, both in terms of points here and because you were connected to Sorrow-kun's Nihon Review and Behind the Nihon Review. Back in those days, having a blog practically made you royalty, and you rather enjoyed telling people what to think. That isn't "thought-provoking" in any way, that was just people preferring to avoid conflict and losing their own hard-earned reputation scores because your ego was too fragile to accept other opinions exist. If we had removed reputation earlier, say, before K-On! The Movie came out, it is doubtful that AnimeSuki's K-On! fans would've acted the way they did.

Even outside K-On! The Movie, you refused to believe that any opinion other than yours matters, but at the same time, you desperately sought validation to show that your opinion matters. You made no attempt to listen to others, and you created conflict even where there is none for your own gratification. You avoided responsibility by making claims that others are engaged in the very behaviors you participate in. This was apparent in how you handled those whose political opinions were unlike your own, or who did not share your belief that everything is usually "mediocre". In short, you were the mark of someone who believes they are entitled to respect when they've done nothing to earn it. This behavior is inconsistent with people who desire legitimate conversation, the so-called interesting discussions you claim to champion. Others have previously called you out for this behavior, but this has been to no avail. Last_Sinner is correct that your only talent is creating conflict, and -Antares- is justified in his remarks to you. You are not a political expert, nor are you an authoritative anime critic. With your snide, condescending attitude, it is a small wonder you've not been banned permanently from AnimeSuki.

Looking at your Future

While your getting away with things which would have almost certainly resulted in any other user to become banned appears a miscarriage of justice (you've been free to run around and insult whomever crossed you here without consequence), I will remark here that justice is not mine to dispense. I am not going to ask you to redact your opinions of K-On! The Movie simply because they differ from my own. I reiterate that this is not a response to you holding a contrarian opinion. It is a response to the fact that despite your attitude, people agree with you anyways. This actually speaks more poorly about these individuals than they do about you, since they lacked the conviction in their own stances, if they had to agree with you as opposed to drawing their own conclusions. As such, I am going to have you acknowledge that a majority of AnimeSuki's users, did not agree with you on the virtue of your arguments being meritorious of agreement. They agreed with you simply because of your reputation, and that does not bring about the quality of discussions you have reiterated as something you look for: your sarcastic and condescending attitude towards others do you no credit, and you didn’t deserve a point of your reputation at AnimeSuki, or a word of agreement from others. I don't expect you'll hear from me again, and while I cannot speak to how you conduct yourself in in the present, one hopes that these observations of your character are five years outdated, and that you've taken -Antares-' suggestions to heart. You are entitled to an opinion, but as you yourself have stated, not all opinions are entitled to being respected by others. Your opinions, on virtue of your pompous and snide attitude, fall into the latter category, and evidently, in the past decade, your low emotional maturity is still evident. You remain wrong about those who watch K-On!, and as a small bit of recompense, the Nihon Review domain is gone. With this, all record of your supposed authority and expertise are gone with Nihon Review, and while you may try to deflect otherwise on places like Twitter, the reality is you will not be regaining any of your past glory and fame. Although I would see your pointless, emotionally immature rant stricken off AnimeSuki, I'll settle for the fact that your reputation has been reduced to nothing.

Hidan no Aria > Lain

Thanks for letting me know. I've just dealt with the user.

*Recognize Maou, dies of hypeness*

Although I feel MAL is terribly limited in communication and would prefer text on Skype, I guess it's your call. I've read some of your reviews and noticed you apparently enjoy death threats so I figured it would be interesting to discuss about your opinion on various anime related topics now and then.

Maou is the best villain in any VN to date.

nice profile pic :3

Oh rofl.
randomc = lostinanime.

Entravity might be interesting if he's not being a faggot. Ranomdc/lostinanime is definitely the best I've seen.
Also, Chibi Jacob's videos are pretty fun to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nro97wKMHYw

He's not quite 'aware', but if you want someone who takes the events very seriously and emotionally, he's your guy.

Yeah, that's definitely true. I guess Refrain isn't superficial enough to be a show for everyone.

I like this guy's posts as well.
http://randomc.net/2013/11/30/little-busters-refrain-09/

I sort of like the blog "Entravity", but that guy kinda sucked for episode 8, since I guess he had high expectations for the emotional impact. I'm curious to see what he thinks of episode 9.
http://www.entravity.com/little-busters-refrain-episode-8-strongest/

Yeah.... sports or other hobbies... cough cough* wink wink*

http://i39.tinypic.com/2vsrtht.jpg

Really liked your K-On review. As a musician, it was a pain for me to watch it.

Cool Fate/Zero review. :)

Hah, just had to come check your profile after recognizing that profile picture :D
G-senjou no Maou was an awesome read VN !

hey bro read your review of Eve No Jikan and I really liked it thx got me intrested in the movie and I just thought I'd recommend the seires Chobits

Cool, I also noticed we have pretty high anime compatibility