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xTom GmbH CTO treats me badly for reporting a problem with the xTom network in Frankfurt, Germany
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Anything to add @xTom ?
I have just confirmed with our networking team that there has been no search or blackholing of your IPs. Since you are not our direct customer, I suggest contacting your provider for more information.
Because we have been actively addressing and resolving routing issues since yesterday, we are committed to resolving all outstanding issues.
Ah, the magic of public forums... I've just been un-blackholed 11 minutes ago
Looking around their network configuration, I already concluded from that, that this person behind it must me a special amateurish person. > @VittG said:
Time to backup your data and move from this shitshow host
Today, after the blackholing, I also tested with the public IPs of your looking glasses in those locations, and I was completely blackholed, even your border routers were not replying anymore to me in the mtr
I also tested all of the other looking glasses you have all over the world, and I was not blackholed there. Just in the five locations I listed above.
Anyway, now I'm not blackholed anymore!
I do not see any more outstanding technical issues for now, thank you!
Any comments about your employee communication with people who help identify problems with your services? At no cost.
Are these guys related to Path?
They didn't DDoSed OP yet.
Path may have some staff with questionable pasts, but ngl that's often the best type of person for that this type of work....
This is apparently someone partner level being a complete d-bag to someone who politely tried helping, with a side of nazi? Wat?
Apples to oranges tbh, not comparable.
Jesus dude, isn't that overreaching just a tad?
Someone who stoops to that level might try to find another opportunity to do you dirty to show you who's king. Unfortunately, kings don't make reliable system administrator.
If you've got anything important tied to that infrastructure, time to slowly do what you gotta do.
Maybe not. Thanking someone for doing what the rules describe as Bannable / "kill -9" Behavior might not be super great.
Also, please consider that Moderators Are People Too.
Nobody is perfect. Maybe, according to the rules, both @vpsgay and @loay should have been banned? Maybe not banning both of them was overreaching just a tad? Well, my excuse is that I try to be nice to everyone.
Awhile back I seem to remember commenting about one of your affiliate links being posted by someone without disclosure that the link was an affiliate link. Since then, I've noticed that you occasionally comment criticizing my moderation, about which I do try to take it easy. May I please suggest that you take it a little easier too?
In order to further help you in your quest about resolving all outstanding issues, and for completeness' sake, let me say that according to my webserver logs, the IPv6 whose reverse PTR corresponds to "office.xtom.nl." has used Chrome on Win10 to visit my website at 17:47:24 +0100 and my contact page at 17:47:31 +0100. Whoever has been, they didn't write anything to me. Shortly thereafter, I got blackholed at around 17:53 (sorry if I don't have a more accurate timestamp for that unpleasant event).
So probably, as a relatively positive note towards you, I can now say that it might be improbable that you actually sniffed your whole datacenter traffic in order to find my IPs.
Instead, it could probably have been just a coincidence, due to the fact that I was running the mtr from the same server that is also hosting my website.
I think you're reading too far into what "thanking" is on these forums. For the record, there have been times where I've accidentally thanked a post - it can happen with clumsy thumbs and requires no confirmation.
I do, however, agree with your choice to call out the person who made the comment, just not the people that thanked the comment too. That's where the "overreaching" came from in my comment to you - that you included anyone who "thanked" the comment.
Another member (not me) completely unrelated to me happened to post one of my aff links without knowing it was an aff link, and you called them out for it. How is this anything to do with me?
If you've noticed that I will "occasionally comment criticizing your moderation" it's because I've felt that it needed to happen - take the feedback and improve your moderation style, don't ignore it and become combative like you are now. Anyway, I only occasionally call you out, what's the big deal? Calm down a bit.. sheesh.
If bruh took that time to manage their Tokyo network, it wouldn't blip now and then.
It's the one server from GC VPS that blips here and then, as narced out by other instances, and ofc it's this ISP.
+1
Sharing the "severe warning" I got for my behaviour on this thread, just so everyone else can also understand the rules and not make the same mistakes I did.
Sorry, @Not_Oles for my actions.
guys don't derail this drama thread
This is one of the best ones in recent memory!
@Not_Oles stop acting like that.
If you cannot take criticism at that level, you should not be a moderator. Using tools or rather threats like those warnings is the wrong way to solve your issues you assume he has with you.
Pointing out that punishing a thanks on a questionable post seems like overreacting in moderating is exactly my thoughts as well.
If you would do that in the more heated threads, you'd have a lot todo...
PS: I also checked @dahartigan comment history to find the "repeatedly spinning up drama about the moderation decisions" you do.. there is not much to find there. Is this a very old grudge you are holding here and just can't let go?
Wow! I summon @DP @jbiloh to comment on such behavior. This is borderline power abuse for personal reasons. Why it is warnable or even banable offense to criticize moderators action?
I recall that @Arkas once was very touchy to critique, but he grown up. Hot emotions and rash decisions, once you have power over other community members, should be controlled way more.
That’s why periodic rotation among governing entities is much needed. To avoid fatique and corruption.
@Not_Oles, I must admit, this situation feels rather personal.
Even in the initial instance of someone mentioning a "typical Chinese character," you were quite prompt to react, issuing warnings and such. I don't necessarily find fault with that approach. However, on the flip side, due to the lingering influence of past experiences, even reputable providers based in Romania encounter the stereotype of a "typical Romanian character," shaped by the legacy of cociu. Take, for example, host C; the individual appears amiable, runs a legitimate data center, and offers reasonable plans. Yet, I've noticed repeated Romanian-related criticisms directed towards them. Why is it that there seems to be no corresponding action from you in those cases, yet you become visibly perturbed when someone attributes issues to the Chinese?
Congrats on your first post
Is it a reasonable guess that you're an alt of someone here?
Facts cannot be racist.
It appears that he is intolerant of anybody discovering issues with the system. because he desires to believe that he is the world's greatest technologist and that everything he is doing is flawless. anyone who discovers or attempts to discover any problem in his system is his enemy. He needs psychiatric treatment.
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well this is really tickle my spidey sense. awhile ago this mod also making funny comment. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3902130/#Comment_3902130
This kind of moderation and borderline power abuse is what kills many forum in the past. and I'm sure as hell I don't want this javanese sandal enthusiast forum ended with the same fate. just my 7$
I feel like there is more to the story than what is being shared by OP.
Wow. @xTom any other comments regarding the initial e-mail?
@Not_Oles - as others have said - learn from @Arkas on this one. He's mellowed a lot on his moderation style to the benefit of both himself and the community.
If you spend your time worrying about minor things and issuing warnings for thanks on posts you will only burn yourself out and grow animosity from the people involved.
'thanks' on a post should probably never attract warnings or bans even if the post is abhorrent.
Just sit back, relax and try not to take it all too personally.