1. i create the thread "General Warning Tally for staff..."
2. i spend six pages using the warning gimmick to poke fun at the entire staff and paint them as slightly insane, morally reprehensible and of questionable sexuality, starting with mike. no response, so i assume he understands the concept of a joke and does not take offense.
3. this is posted -
Khas wrote:Hey mojo, why don't you write a fanfic starring the members of this board?
Keep the demented personalities though.
4. i post a fanfic in which as far as i can tell swst and mike are portrayed exactly as in the warning thread.
i wait for days, no reaction from mike. i assume that he's not offended.
5. with no response forthcoming, i post another piece of story. i wait 24 hours for a reaction, laughing my ass off every time i read it.
6. i realize i'm enjoying myself, and that i want to continue to write it, but i can't go much further with only two characters. i want to split the board into combatants on both the star wars side and the star trek side and have them all receive massive testicular trauma as mike had before them.
7. i send out a pm to the entire board and ask each member to pick a side. i ask them to let me know what is or isn't acceptable demented behavior for characters bearing their names.
mojo wrote:i'd like permission to use you in my story, 'Tiny Dick, No Balls: the Adventures of Captain Mike Dicenso and his Lover StarWarsStarTrek'. Also, if you have a preference for which side you'd like to be on, what's you'd like to be doing or NOT doing, anything like that, I'll oblige.
i offer the same thing to mike, which admittedly i should have done in the first place. the name i gave the story is also somewhat unfortunate, but it was meant as a one-off joke. i just had to figure a way to include the line, 'god, my balls are tiny,' and i had already intimated that mike and swst might be better friends than they seemed in the warning thread, which i thought was funny because they are actually always at odds.
8. i receive 10 responses to my pm almost immediately. eight of these agree to let me use them as i please with no conditions set and four seem sincerely excited by the idea.
9. mike sends this:
Mike Dicenso wrote:In a word. No.
I'll spell this out quite clearly for you, Mojo. No more of this. I'll consider it harassment. It's bad enough that JMS removed the ban on SWST, now I have to deal with you and Breetai going on another rampage again. Enough.
-Mike
the irony of this is that until i offered mike control over how far is too far he apparently either had no problem with his treatment in both the warning thread and then in the fanfic and then for some reason instantly changed his mind upon receiving my pm, or he never read them at all, which would seem to fly in the face of his claim of 'scanning' the posts each day looking for policy violations.
now that i think about it, mike would not have immediately jumped to the conclusion that i was deliberately insulting and harassing him if he had read far enough into the warning thread to find the post in which khas asks me to write the story.
the claim of my being on 'another rampage' is not only wrong, it's also dishonest. it brings to mind his flat lies claiming a nine post prank on a forum with an upper limit of 15-20 posts per day took days and days to deal with and damaged his ability to deal with swst. i have an admission in writing that i was a convenient scapegoat at that time. i can't help but worry that this 'another rampage' bullshit is preparation for a repeat. i am not 'on another rampage', i am acting exactly as i have been acting since my ban.
10. Nowhereman10 sends this:
Nowhereman10 wrote:The thing I dislike about what mojo's done is including me along with a bunch of other active and retired users in some big spam posting vendetta against Mike.
Next time leave me out of it, m'kay?
the thing i dislike about what nowhereman10 is saying is that it makes it completely obvious that he has not read the warning thread, he has not read the fanfic, he has not read THE PM ITSELF, and yet not only does he comment on it, he accuses me of 'some big spam posting vendetta against Mike'. there is no vendetta. that is insane. my pm to the board was sincere.