Feartheturtle discussion

[I LOVE GINNY]

-Has feartheturtle flashback-

Well, he had it coming.

[ip82]

Hey, I keep hearing about this "feartheturtle" character. What's the story with that? Is there some thread of his or something?

[LT2000]

I know he used to be an admin here and got demoted for being mostly inactive and bitching all the time when he was around. He then tossed a major fit and pretty much insulted everybody here, the other admins especially, before asking to be banned or something. Midknight or LR or Vash could probably elaborate more, as I really didn't follow the whole thing too closely. All I really thought about Turtle was that he somehow managed to misspell kindergarten-level words with astounding frequency.

[Midknight]

Hey, I keep hearing about this "feartheturtle" character. What's the story with that? Is there some thread of his or something?

He was an admin here when the site launched. He did nothing but swear as much as he possibly could, in a time where we were trying to keep the potty mouth syndrome down abit.

He never modded anything, nor did anything administrative. He did however bitch his head off about anything under the sun, frequently put the site down (This is why I'm touchy about that btw, we bust our butts) when he did nothing to help it, blaming the site's slow growth on the fact that "certain authors" did update their story more. I'd go in, correct him, make a point or two, someone else would reply, and then the thread would vanish.

Frequently threads of major size would up and be deleted, with noone taking the credit for it. This would only happen the few days out of the month he decided to log in. At one point in time he cost myself and LR, and several others, several hundred posts by deleting active threads in various sections.

He'd often have as long as a month of inactivity. When we stripped him of Admin by vote, he didn't even notice for quite some time. Considering I have to use the admin panel every 6 hours or so on a slow day, the fact that it took him days to notice shows how little he used it. The only reason he noticed at all actually, was he wanted to post something in the admin forum, and couldn't reach it. He flipped out that we did not have a formal sit down about taking something away he never used anyway, threw a massive temper tantrum, and had Vash delete him. Anything with Guest on it now is probably a edited Fear post.

His grammar and spelling read out on the screen like watching a retarded, blind monkey with no arms bash on the keyboard. You could often understand it, but in between the swear words, and useless gibberish it usually wasn't worth it.

So basically when a person is worthless and bitchy, we just feartheturtle them and move on.

[ip82]

Sounds like a nice guy.

In the meantime I pulled "feartheturtle" through the Google and found a guy with that nic and a solid number of posts on some Christian society forum or some shit like that. Didn't see any HP references, but I guess he wouldn't want to be declared for a satan worshiper and chased away...

[Lord Ravenclaw]

If he spells like a three year old on crack who's been dropped on it's head one or two times too many, that might be him. Some samples of feartheturtle speak:

yea i did that witha dragon sketch i found, but the whole thing with the picture bieng 150x150 pixels made the picture seem really samlla dn crummy.

i got a sister that we can use just as long as none of those webcame thing or pictures ever surface on my computer.

Background on the last post, back in April of 2005 we were trying to bring more people in, so I jokingly suggested porn and cookies. Vash replied with something about his sister, and feartheturtle with this. To this day, I'm not sure if he was serious or not, and that's the frightening bit....

[ip82]

Holy shit! And you gave that guy any kind of "authoritee"? *Cartman-speach*

[Dark Syaoran]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking back then. How'd he become an admin in the first place? Was it because he was one of the first people here?

[IndoGhost]

When the hell did that happen...o well...at least the sick bastard is gone...the man has no honor.... :evil:

[ChuckDaTruck]

:strokes chin thoughtfully: I remember featherturtle. He was around for a while when I was here. My feelings were pretty neutral on the guy.

I joined in May 2005 (THANKS MIDKNIGHT!! :D )

Due to Midknight's Handle on Fanfiction.net

Anyway, featherturtle can PROBABLY still be found if you look through fanficton.net

It was something like featherturtle35?


Anyway, that's it. That's the story of featherturtle.

[Lord Ravenclaw]

When we gave him admin, it was just about five people here. We needed people, and if mod/admin gimmicks worked, then so be it. Of course, while the rest of the staff turned out good, feartheturtle obviously couldn't bring himself to act mature.

[Belgarion213]

I hate people like that. I used to be part of a WoT forum and every three weeks some bastard would just turn up, posting nothing but flames in nearly every active threads and whenever possible ruining them. We had this real good discusion going for like a month on what people thought the next book would be about and this guy just ruined it in like five minutes by posting flames everywhere.

[Burt]

I hate people like that.

You really shouldn't pass judgement on unknown parties.

Feartheturtle was annoying and inattentive, but not a bad guy, from what I could tell. Even if he didn't deserve his admin privledges (a question to which I cannot answer, since most of his discrepincies were private among the mods and admins), it must've been a very nasty shock for him to come to the site and try to post, only to notice quite suddenly that he no longer had access to the area in which he wanted to post. It's no wonder that he was angry.

I vaguely remember his posts on General Discussion, asking what had happened. He was hysterical. And I remember Lord Ravenclaw's cold bussiness-like reply, followed shortly by an angry rant from Midknight about how useless he was. Can you imagine? I think that that thread's been deleted.

I'm quite sorry if it's an unpopular opinion, but after that, I felt rather sympathetic to Fear.

He didn't post a whole lot, and his spelling was bad, but he was still a decent fellow, from what I saw. Still, I admit that I didn't see most of what Midknight's talking about, since it happened on the Admin thread.

[Sree]

Feartheturtle was annoying and inattentive, but not a bad guy, from what I could tell. Even if he didn't deserve his admin privledges (a question to which I cannot answer, since most of his discrepincies were private among the mods and admins), it must've been a very nasty shock for him to come to the site and try to post, only to notice quite suddenly that he no longer had access to the area in which he wanted to post. It's no wonder that he was angry.

I vaguely remember his posts on General Discussion, asking what had happened. He was hysterical. And I remember Lord Ravenclaw's cold bussiness-like reply, followed shortly by an angry rant from Midknight about how useless he was. Can you imagine? I think that that thread's been deleted.

I'm quite sorry if it's an unpopular opinion, but after that, I felt rather sympathetic to Fear.

He didn't post a whole lot, and his spelling was bad, but he was still a decent fellow, from what I saw. Still, I admit that I didn't see most of what Midknight's talking about, since it happened on the Admin thread.

::snorts:: The guy wasn't hysterical. He was outright obnoxious in that post. He could have PMed any of the admin and found out, but preferred to get more attention by posting in Gen. Discussion.

And as I recall, fear was the one that kept insulting Midknight, so that's why he stepped in, he had wanted to keep out of it, but no go.

And I dunno, but I'm pretty sure he's the one that posted this: http://forums.darklordpotter.net/viewtopic.php?t=724

Don't be deluded by the "I'm the victim" crap; he wasn't.

[Zevrillion]

I hate people like that.

You really shouldn't pass judgement on unknown parties.

Feartheturtle was annoying and inattentive, but not a bad guy, from what I could tell. Even if he didn't deserve his admin privledges (a question to which I cannot answer, since most of his discrepincies were private among the mods and admins), it must've been a very nasty shock for him to come to the site and try to post, only to notice quite suddenly that he no longer had access to the area in which he wanted to post. It's no wonder that he was angry.

I vaguely remember his posts on General Discussion, asking what had happened. He was hysterical. And I remember Lord Ravenclaw's cold bussiness-like reply, followed shortly by an angry rant from Midknight about how useless he was. Can you imagine? I think that that thread's been deleted.

I'm quite sorry if it's an unpopular opinion, but after that, I felt rather sympathetic to Fear.

He didn't post a whole lot, and his spelling was bad, but he was still a decent fellow, from what I saw. Still, I admit that I didn't see most of what Midknight's talking about, since it happened on the Admin thread.

He wasn’t that bad, just unpredictable, and he wanted dlp.net to be something it will never become.

The demoting might have been handle a little bit better, but it's not like you do it everyday so.. It's trial and error.


Hopefully something like that won't happen now that the admin/mod group has stabilized. But at the beginning, the main goal was to get as many people as fast as possible. For that I had to allow a lot of people in as mods and admins, so they in turn could spread the word.

Quite interesting, from a little bit of experiment with setting up a phpBB website and see if I could create a growing community. A now, nearly a year later with over 600 members. And I who thought it would last no more than 2 months.


About Vorlon666(take some deep breaths. Who care if someone says you have some grammatical error. It’s not what matter. Is your story enjoyable or not. If so, good grammatical is just a plus), see this as a lesson and try to be a little nicer in the future when you comment a story. It's all good with creative criticism, but if the fics are posted here they aren’t usually that bad, and it wouldn’t hurt to say something nice to.

And it’s also quite possible that the author to the stories that are posted here is also a member, so be honest, but think a little before posting. We want people to stay, not run away.

[Lord Ravenclaw]

H.e was the guest who posted a bunch of stuff about how the site 'sucked' and even more insults towards the members and staff, though I'm not sure if he posted the one Sree linked, because if he did, he probably ran it through a spell check first. This was when he was on a trip, and during that time he was still an Admin. He deserved what he got, so don't be drawn in by his victim spiel. We told him many times to change, and we gave him his fair share of chances, he decided to continue acting like a moron and we acted accordingly.

[Zevrillion]

H.e was the guest who posted a bunch of stuff about how the site 'sucked' and even more insults towards the members and staff, though I'm not sure if he posted the one Sree linked, because if he did, he probably ran it through a spell check first. This was when he was on a trip, and during that time he was still an Admin. He deserved what he got, so don't be drawn in by his victim spiel. We told him many times to change, and we gave him his fair share of chances, he decided to continue acting like a moron and we acted accordingly.

He was quite supporting in the beginning and friendly when you could understand him, but that's another story after he was band.

[Lord Ravenclaw]

In the beginning, yes, but after a while he began to insult the forum and its members. Then the guest thing while he was on that trip really irked me.

[ChuckDaTruck]

FEATHER TURTEL WAS AN ABOMINATION!!!



I mean that. What kind of turte has feathers. Its sickening. Its almost as nauseating as a winged horse that is half eagle's. Ugh, Buckbeak, you are TRULY monstrous. MAY YOU BURN IN HELL WITH FEATHERTURTLE, BUCKBEAK!!!

[LT2000]

Trolling or not, I can't help but pity anybody who can actually post about HBP being a good book. :lol:

[Sree]

H.e was the guest who posted a bunch of stuff about how the site 'sucked' and even more insults towards the members and staff, though I'm not sure if he posted the one Sree linked, because if he did, he probably ran it through a spell check first. This was when he was on a trip, and during that time he was still an Admin. He deserved what he got, so don't be drawn in by his victim spiel. We told him many times to change, and we gave him his fair share of chances, he decided to continue acting like a moron and we acted accordingly.

Yeah, I'm not totally sure on that, since the guy at least has a grasp of grammar. But, who else would do it?

[Xiph0]

But, who else would do it?

A Harry/Ginny wanderer who accidently wandered into S&P...

[Midknight]

And I remember Lord Ravenclaw's cold bussiness-like reply, followed shortly by an angry rant from Midknight about how useless he was.

Raven asked him to handle it privately, and he responded by blasting anyone with a yellow name. Raven again asked him to take it to private, and he responded worse, zeroing in on me and Vash to blast next. I stayed out of it for quite awhile with him constantly insulting me in any manner he could, which included PMs that referenced things that the "guest" had said verbatim, complete with the spelling errors on the same words and grammar. There's no doubt in my mind it was him, as the IP was from a location he mentioned passing through on his vacation.

I finally replied after I think 4 or 5 posts, and about 2 or 3 PM's blasting me and Vash as crazy sick fuckers among other things., and yeah I bit into him. Would you of had me sit there and take it for no reason?

You stated you're not clear on what happened, so don't make me out to be the bad guy, when the guy constantly egged it on. You just told a previous poster not to make uninformed decisions, I suggest you do the same. Making me out to be the bad party, while ignoring the other posts for the most part, then stating you pity the numbnut is severe bias on your behalf, especially when you're uninformed about the behind the scenes stuff like you stated. *shrug* I know I'm viewed as the "bad guy" on the boards staff wise, but it's simply b/c I'm the most active admin, and I usually see most of the stuff before the other's do, so it goes to me to be the yeller-at-er... oh the fun PM's I've gotten :twisted:

I noticed you didn't mention Vash's scathing reply, which was much, much, much worse then mine. I at least stayed semi professional and listed why he was demoted, Vash nailed the guy like a pinata ( I don't blame him, Vash had never, ever been anything but nice to him, where as we'd bumped heads a few times over me deleting swear filled rants at posters that didn't deserve it). Any particular reason for zeroing in on me and my "angry rant from Midknight about how useless he was. "

Your opinion is your own, and you're entitiled to it, but don't sit there and try to spin it into he was innocent and we/me screwed him over and ranted on him for no reason.

The guy was an alright person early on, but he got very lax about his job, and was constantly posting stuff about how much the site sucked or it's members sucked, etc. Instead of posting how to make it better, he pointed fingers. Someone would come along and tell him to knock it off, and he'd delete the thread, then feign ignorance of it ever happening.

it must've been a very nasty shock for him to come to the site and try to post,

Aye I bet when he made his first stop by that month after coming back from 3 weeks inactivity, and found he couldn't post a thread about how much we all suck, he was indeed miffed.

We all admit we should of at least emailed the guy, but he'd had been off for some time, a previous log in like 3 weeks before hand, then around a month before that, 2 weeks before that, etc repeat. What was the point if he obviously couldn't be bothered.


Yeah, I'm not totally sure on that, since the guy at least has a grasp of grammar. But, who else would do it?

There was also one other username that only posted on the same days fear was logged in, with decent spelling, but the same grammar mistakes and ways of phrasing things. I forget the username atm, but I've pointed it out to Raven awhile back before this happened. This user however seemed very agreeable to anything we did, and estatic to be here, so maybe the guy's just got M.P.D.


Edited b/c it posted itself twice, wtg!

[Cervus]

I have noticed that Midknight always has a reason before stomping on someones arse. I suppose it's as he says himself, that being the most active mod gets him more hassle than the rest. I don't particularly remember much about fear, I was here for awhile whist he was but tended to skip his posts due inability to read most of them. That's why I've stayed out of this topic so far, I don't know both side of the story so I can't really comment on it. Still, I'm sure - near enough positive - that if Mid came down hard on him it was for a good reason.

[Burt]

Midnight, I wasn't trying to make you -- or anyone -- out as a bad guy. In fact, I was trying to do quite the opposite. Belgarian posted about hating someone that he'd never met and had probably never even read a post by, and I just don't like that.

Lord Ravenclaw did ask him to speak about it privately, but from what I recall, the manner in which he said it was reminicent of a court summoning. It was cold and impersonal. If a friend had kicked me out, or I'd been fired, and I got a message like that, I'd blow a fuse, and I think so would you. Were it in real life, I'd probably just seeth, but people don't seeth on the internet. It's always a lot easier to express negative emotions online than it is in real life, and it's a lot easier to get carried away.

As for why I singled you out, Midknight, I simply don't remember many of the other posts made on the thread -- from not reading them in the first place or just the months passing by having an effect on my memory, I don't know. But I did remember your post a bit more vividly than most of the others. I know that human memory isn't very reliable, and often reality is replaced with imagination in memory, and I did not want to comment on something that could equally be my memory or my imagination.

Again, I wasn't trying to villify anyone. I don't dislike you, Midknight, and I agree with most of the decissions and comments you make here. My post wasn't an agressive one, Midknight, so don't take it as an attack on you. I just didn't like how Fear was being targetted, irrelivantly, without anyone defending him. I usually hold my tongue when someone mentions him, but Belgarian's comment about hating him made me speak.

I don't know what happened on the admin boards, and I can't tell the difference between someone being inactive and someone ghosting around without posting (like I often do). But I do remember that he was an alright guy, and I don't think that he should be let gone undefended. He's gone now, and there's really no reason to drag his cold corpse through the mud in the way that you were all doing.

[Midknight]

Midnight, I wasn't trying to make you -- or anyone -- out as a bad guy. In fact, I was trying to do quite the opposite. Belgarian posted about hating someone that he'd never met and had probably never even read a post by, and I just don't like that.

I agree with you about the jumping to conclusions part, but reread the way you worded the post, it came out reading like "poor fear he got ganged up on by Ravenclaw then Mid came along and assraped him, no wonder fear got mad"


Lord Ravenclaw did ask him to speak about it privately, but from what I recall, the manner in which he said it was reminicent of a court summoning. It was cold and impersonal. If a friend had kicked me out, or I'd been fired, and I got a message like that, I'd blow a fuse, and I think so would you.

Raven was very blunt and direct aye, and asked him to message him. If it'd happened to me I'd of asked why, etc, and handled it in private instead of blowing up. I probably would of asked to be deleted as well, if I felt that it wasn't my own fault, but if it was my fault I'd of accepted it, and not blow up.

As for why I singled you out, Midknight, I simply don't remember many of the other posts made on the thread -- from not reading them in the first place or just the months passing by having an effect on my memory, I don't know. But I did remember your post a bit more vividly than most of the others. I know that human memory isn't very reliable, and often reality is replaced with imagination in memory, and I did not want to comment on something that could equally be my memory or my imagination.

Ah I see. Refresher: I mentioned I wanted to stay out of it, but since he kept dragging me in, I listed what he wasn't doing, told him he needed to spell at least at third grade level for his rants to be understood, and I think I did return an insult or two. Vash ripped him from anus to eyeball with his post. Me I could understand, as I'm aware he didn't like me, the attack at Vash was totally out of the blue.


Again, I wasn't trying to villify anyone. I don't dislike you, Midknight, and I agree with most of the decissions and comments you make here. My post wasn't an agressive one, Midknight, so don't take it as an attack on you. I just didn't like how Fear was being targetted, irrelivantly, without anyone defending him. I usually hold my tongue when someone mentions him, but Belgarian's comment about hating him made me speak.

That's perfectly fine, I was actually about to lock the thread, since it's rather pointless to keep talking about him now that the initial question was answered. As I said before, if you reread the thread, it can be interpreted as finger pointing, which is why I wanted to clear that up.

I don't know what happened on the admin boards, and I can't tell the difference between someone being inactive and someone ghosting around without posting (like I often do). But I do remember that he was an alright guy, and I don't think that he should be let gone undefended. He's gone now, and there's really no reason to drag his cold corpse through the mud in the way that you were all doing.

As I said I was about to lock it, but I felt like I'd been singled out and wanted to clear that up.

[Master Slytherin]

Heh I was wondering what happened to that guy... it seemed as if he'd vanished and now I know he did :lol:

It seemed very strange but everything's clicking into place. This guy who kept flaming my fics under the name Lord Ravenclaw was starting to grate me and after viewing exerpts from his writing style, it seems it was feartheturtle. What a loser, he was an admin the first time he flamed Freelance Hero and wasn't man enough to admit it was him. I guess it was his own personal revenge against Ravenclaw.... I have no respect for such people and no sympathy either.

Personally, I think this is a site worthy of respect. It boasts a great number of excellent authors as members and quite a lot of the new members are very active indeed.

[Dark Syaoran]

Vash ripped him from anus to eyeball with his post.

Rofl. Ahh Midknight, such nice words you use to discribe things :P

[Midknight]

Vash ripped him from anus to eyeball with his post.

Rofl. Ahh Midknight, such nice words you use to discribe things :P

True, but it describes the pain good enough doesn't it?