Say goodbye to the french subforums, my friends…

[rubenxela]

How can you say that Brian ? I don't like to personaly attack someone in that kind of places but seriously do you question yourself sometimes ? How can you explain that you have good, exceptionnal, better .... ideas and nobody is able to understand you or share your views !!!!
How can you explain that, searching in google with your nickname Brianluedke I can find others places where you are banned from ?
So you are maybe the messiah and we ALL must be like romans. But can you tell me if there is in this place at least 1 apostle ??? I don't think so !!
I really hope that you'll be recognize as a genius in the future, but right now for my opinion it's not time and place. Good luck.

 

[d_n]

Hi d_n,

You really think that is the main reason? None of what I said above applies?

Let me know...

Hi Iridium, as you can read from rubenxela's point of view, it's not only my opinion. I didn't ask him to write what he wrote.
As i already said, good exchange of ideas come from confident atmosphere, not the Brian type of behaviour.
Apart from that, there's a thread about DomainerMeeting in the french subsection.

 

[brianluedke]

I see here a lot of personal insults... not much evidence of any wrongdoing on my part, though.

 

[d_n]

I see here a lot of personal insults...

So, it looks like everyone wants your head, even if you're the Good… We must be the Evil. Profanity?

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité... non pas les muselières

In France, we are used to saying: one's freedom stops where another's one starts. Meaning: if you push a small kid in the street without any reason, you are free doing so. But if i watch you doing it, i'm free to make my own decisions about what is unfair, and proceed to action.

 

[brianluedke]

Who here has the courage to admit that part of the animosity against me relates to my comments on France's involvement in the Rwandan and Jewish genocides? Plus certain other topics which Francophones would prefer NOT to be mentioned? All of my comments on these topics were written in a civil, polite manner which dovetailed perfectly with dnforum rules.

It is precisely because you want to suppress this liberty of speech that you want to get me banned. You, and those that stand with you, simply do not understand or desire to participate in the adult, free marketplace of ideas.

What does it prove that others also want to suppress my freedom of speech? Have you never heard of the tyranny of the many against the few?

If you dislike my statements, be a man and support your arguments with facts and figures. Don't be a schoolboy and go whining that you and a few others are crying about the truth that I speak.

 

[d_n]

Who here has the courage to admit that part of the animosity against me relates to my comments on France's involvement in the Rwandan and Jewish genocides?

I don't speak for others, but this has nothing to do with the main concern which is you and your behaviour, and not one particular subject, which obviously may not be the most diplomatic way of getting among french people, by the way…
And once again i suspect you try to put the subject in another way…

Please keep the thread on topic Brian, this is a legitimate discussion.

You did not reply to my question: you really think you did nothing wrong while many of us believe so? You're still thinking that the majority of the group you posted in, is against your behaviour without one main reason?

 

[brianluedke]

You have not put forward a single bit of evidence against me, so how am I supposed to "stick to the topic," or "reply to your question"?

Where is your evidence of wrongdoing?

Why are you hijacking the discussion with this personal assault?

 

[MediaHound]

Who here has the courage to admit that part of the animosity against me relates to my comments on France's involvement in the Rwandan and Jewish genocides? Plus certain other topics which Francophones would prefer NOT to be mentioned? All of my comments on these topics were written in a civil, polite manner which dovetailed perfectly with dnforum rules.

It is precisely because you want to suppress this liberty of speech that you want to get me banned. You, and those that stand with you, simply do not understand or desire to participate in the adult, free marketplace of ideas.

What does it prove that others also want to suppress my freedom of speech? Have you never heard of the tyranny of the many against the few?

If you dislike my statements, be a man and support your arguments with facts and figures. Don't be a schoolboy and go whining that you and a few others are crying about the truth that I speak.

I'm still investigating you, I did not yet read what you wrote about Rwanda and the Jewish genocides.
I can tell you, though, that this probably isn't the place to talk about those things.
This is DNForum and we prefer to see on-topic threads. We have the politics and controversy subforum out of necessity, not because we like reading about politics and controversy.
In regards to your asking for what rule you have broken, the first and foremost prelude to the rules, mind you, is that we have a no-nonsense policy. We cannot have a rule for everything. And so you are clearly aware from here forward, speech is not free here, we have guidelines and we make judgment calls on what is allowed.

 

[brianluedke]

The only nonsense I see here is this thread itself. I have always obeyed all the rules.

If discussion concerning domains entails related political topics, where is the harm in that? If you don't want serious, adult discussion, I would respectfully suggest that you add that to the rules.

Isn't there usually some evidence of wrongdoing before an investigation is started, and not the other way around?

 

[iridium]

Hi Iridium, as you can read from rubenxela's point of view, it's not only my opinion. I didn't ask him to write what he wrote.
As i already said, good exchange of ideas come from confident atmosphere, not the Brian type of behaviour.
Apart from that, there's a thread about DomainerMeeting in the french subsection.

D_n, I was not making calls on Brian's behaviors. As far as I can tell he tried to plug his names in other people's threads, is very argumentative with lots of useless talk.... so I am not vouching for him at all.
Having said this using that guy as a reason for the french section's lack of activity and demise is giving him too much credit. There are posters like that in every forum, the major difference being that on other forums such posters get lost in the ocean of insight, whereas here we do not even have a pond...
The thread about DomainerMeeting you mention is the perfect example of what I was saying. The title already says it all, but read through it, it's pretty self explanatory.

 

[brianluedke]

Before you're so quick to agree with the accusations against me, did you really read many of my posts? Do you speak French?

There is one instance where I mentioned one of my domains within a reply to a thread. My domain was on the same topic as the topic in the thread. Maybe that one incident was rude, depending on one's interpretation, but so far that's the only semi-legitimate evidence I've seen against me. (Although it is extremely common for people to mention their domains in replies in this forum if they concern the same topic.)

If having opinions and supporting them in a respectful, polite manner makes me, "argumentative", then I am guilty. But I would still appreciate seeing some evidence.

If we're going to reach deep into everyone's history to see if they've ever broken any rules, I would suggest we start with the initial post in this thread, which violates a number of clearly-defined dnforum rules.

D_n, I was not making calls on Brian's behaviors. As far as I can tell he tried to plug his names in other people's threads, is very argumentative with lots of useless talk.... so I am not vouching for him at all.
Having said this using that guy as a reason for the french section's lack of activity and demise is giving him too much credit. There are posters like that in every forum, the major difference being that on other forums such posters get lost in the ocean of insight, whereas here we do not even have a pond...
The thread about DomainerMeeting you mention is the perfect example of what I was saying. The title already says it all, but read through it, it's pretty self explanatory.

 

[iridium]

Brian,

I assume you read english since you are replying in english, so if you read my post you would have noticed that I am attempting to bring this discussion to more productive levels than whatever resolves around you.

 

[d_n]

D_n, I was not making calls on Brian's behaviors. As far as I can tell he tried to plug his names in other people's threads, is very argumentative with lots of useless talk.... so I am not vouching for him at all.

How comes so many people agree? How can we possibly be against you? That must be a riot…

Having said this using that guy as a reason for the french section's lack of activity and demise is giving him too much credit. There are posters like that in every forum, the major difference being that on other forums such posters get lost in the ocean of insight, whereas here we do not even have a pond...

True, but the french subsection has to be cleaned so that it may re-start properly. You may be right, but we have to say that it's not easy in France to be recognised as professional as the domain name topic is not widely accepted among french way of thinking. We may still feel guilty about that… The french community of domainers is at its beginning.

Before you're so quick to agree with the accusations against me, did you really read many of my posts? Do you speak French?

And that is the point, here. Whereas many french-speaking domainers have something to say against your general behaviour, the Mods who do not speak french would probably have problems finding the truth within words youv'e posted.

There is one instance where I mentioned one of my domains within a reply to a thread. My domain was on the same topic as the topic in the thread. Maybe that one incident was rude, depending on one's interpretation, but so far that's the only legitimate evidence I've seen against me.

No, you did that because you wanted self-promotion, as you always try to add in many topics.
And i suspect you did that as a payback with another member you had a problem with.

But I would still appreciate seeing some evidence.

Be sure i will take the time soon to add sufficient proofs of you polluting this forum, unless you want to edit all of your threads pretty quickly…

 

[katherine]

While I don't like to point fingers at anybody it is true that the French subforum is a tiny community so the misbehavior or bad taste of some people here is amplified as a result.
Brian cracks me up sometimes but I love his sense of humor

 

[domain newbie]

where is the evidence of alleged misbehavior ??

i don't read french but whats wrong with self promotion and pointing out the mistakes ??

team brianluedke unless proven otherwise

 

[DOMAINERIE.EU]

This is exactly the point; you should read French in order to understand that we need to call Dr. Freud urgently.

I'm serious.

Simply imagine you get the following at platinum forum:

4 'domainers' offering everyday names such as: thetableofmyuncle.com , francoismitterandandhisdog.com, couscousandviagrasalat.com and on top of that behaving like an x-file actor.

Dabsi

 

[Picsou.com]

I would also recommend a ban. We have all been insulted many times here. The french forum is a nightmare since he is here.

 

[centreurope.org]

To the mods,
In case you don't know who is who.
Picsou.com & Domainerie.eu, that have just posted before, are our Frank Schilling & Sahar Sarid. It's very annoying for some of us that because of repeted inappropriate behaviour from Brian, those people don't want to contribute to the community anymore.
I may be an old fashioned person, but I'm astonished that a young person such as Brian could so boldly disrespect our eminent figures and stand against all of us. I'm ok with Kate, one could at first find Brian funny and appreciate his talent for arguing. But, after some time, it's really too much.

 

[DomainingCom]

To the question:

Should the french section a better place to discuss without Brian?

I respond: YES

 

[Margoline]

DNF mods should be aware that Brian has made the French subforum totally useless. Everyone disappeared... At the very beginning it was funny, but now you need to make something happen. Sorry fella but please stop posting here or this forum will become a desert...