Yeah. I want a fire.
Look, I'll be upfront about this. I don't like Storf. He's always been a dick to me. He always has other people backing him so that, even if you're right and have good intentions, you get dismissed by defenders. I also hate how they shut the forum down and I'm not over it. What I am is patient. I'm always going to hit them in the mouth if the situation presents itself. This is just reddit. It doesn't matter. And I'll admit that I've butted heads on the old forum and even on here with people. But, if you look at most of those situations, they came from the fact that I hate when people get gaslighted or attacked by mobs for asking legitimate questions or having concerns. Nobody should be dismissed the way that this company and their minions swarm people. Storf's only action is to dismiss members, play the victim, and act like they are overreacting and unable to please. "My credit card was overcharged 15 times." "They're gonna yell no matter what the context." There's a lot of victim blaming and a lot of victim playing.
I was really fortunate to be able to interview David Berman once, right after Silver Jews broke up 10 yeas ago. He said a few things that have stuck with me since. One of them was "People seem to spend a lot of time defending the feelings of the rich and powerful. "
So, yeah, they can gnaw on a hot iron dick. People deserve to have their feelings validated and not shit on. When the forum went down, a ton of people were over on reddit insulting us and claiming that the members were toxic and VMP were heroes that needed to shut it down. I took it personally. Now, a lot of those same people are the most angry and it's because they know that they've been duped. I've said it before, but I believe that the appeal of reddit was the fact that there are rarely any stagnant posts allowed to grow with the front page constantly scrolling down. If there's an issue, downvote the shit out of it and keep it scrolling. Have someone post about how swell that new Classics album is and how Storf really "killed it" again this time. High five!!! Those posts are still coming, but they look comically out of place in the midst of a shit show. Now the front page is nothing but a scrolling fiasco. One disaster after the other. I understand the mods' desire to consolidate that in a thread, because that's only for redunant posts. There are so many new issues everyday this isn't going to let up until something is done about it.
But... in the end, all that I did was ask some questions. I didn't do anything crazy.