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I just want to thank the moderators of Gaia Online for their willingness to and effectiveness in abusing the rights and priviledges of long-standing, paying members of this service.

I think it's amazing that you are so quick to act, and so tenacious in your responsibilities to your own trigger fingers. Whether it be in order to move posts, delete threads, ban accounts, or remove signatures, I have been continually inspired by your unwillingness to treat the users of this service as customers, deserving of respect and attention. Rather, your Machiavellian efforts truly provide a great example to the future managers and human resource directors of the world: we who will also be endowed with power that, thanks to your exemplary efforts, will allow us to abuse and condescend those lucky enough to be placed under our command.

So, once again, I thank you. Please, continue the work that you are doing. Perhaps, if you continue to disregard your users as you have been, you will one day inspire me to leave this site altogether. That will be a great day for us all.

You are appreciated! xd

If I get my signature back, this will be it. I would recommend I not have those priviledges returned to me. They will be used to express my disgust.

The image at the time was off by 25 pixels. Twenty-five. Still, I made it smaller, as per your request.



This time, the image was 500x500. I know because I used Noraboo's signature as a size template. This time only the file size was larger. You did not warn me. You said nothing. You simply acted, which is against the Gaia TOS.

See the image above for a copy of the Rules and Guidelines. It is clearly stated that the moderator must first notify the person and ask them to decrease the size of the signature.

So, please. Keep it up. I look forward to the fury that will finally cause me to leave Gaia for good.

I'm also enjoying the fact that I've changed my signature to a smaller sized—that is, I've complied with moderator request—and still my signature priviledges, which were so casually removed, have not been returned.

I wonder why that is. Are the moderators of Gaia authorized to censor their users now? I haven't seen that change to the TOS yet.

Did you tell someone? Because otherwise no one would know that it was changed, moderators are not psychic unlike what some people seem to enjoy thinking. We also don't sit at a user's profile refreshing the page constantly to see if their sigs have been fix.

465x180 pixels and a size of no larger than 40 kilobytes. I hope this is an adequate signature. I don't like it as much as my last (which cost me 30,000 gold), but it should do until I get a new one.

JoVo...

The clause in the rules refers to permanent removal of signatures.

We regularly temporarily remove sigs and then PM the user in question. This way if they are not available, the overly large or possibly offending sig is not still up on the forums. Then users fix the sig, reply to an available mod, and the sig is restored. Simple as that.

Why you feel the need to throw a fit and take something that happens regularly without incident to dozens of users a day, all of whom simply fix their sigs and have them neatly restored, is beyond me. You haven't bloody experienced an abuse. You broke a rule and were asked to fix it. Oh the horor!

That you were already once asked to reduce your signature size is actually enough reason for you to have your sig removed. You should be thankful you were given another chance, not bitching because it was removed for the period of time between you being notified and you notifying a mod to have it restored.

Really, I'm completely baffled. You're taking it out on a friend as well, who you should know wouldn't go out of their way to screw you over. neutral

JoVo, you WERE told. It's not like one day it just went away and you never found out what happened to it. It was removed for being in violation of the rules, you were informed, and given a chance to fix it. A _second_ chance, after having broken the rule once before, meaning that clearly you'd know about the rules.

The image size limit is NOT for you, it's for other users. People on dialup who can't load a big image. It doesn't matter who is hosting it, what matters is who is going to be looking at it. So it's not counterintuitive at all, if you think about it.

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