Why can respect only be given to people you have/had contact with? I've never met, seen or talked to FG, doesn't mean I'm gonna attack her dead account. In FG's thread, loads of people replied, even if they didn't know her. They haven't had any contact with her, so does that mean they can't respect her memory/make condoleances/etc?
I agree that respect can be shown despite not knowing someone personally. I hardly spoke to her, myself, yet I posted in the thread which was
actually created in respect to her memory (unlike half the people who have posted here).
To expand on this: If his purpose was to turn more people against cypherrr, why would he post a separate topic in the internal TW forums, referencing this thread? I'm pretty damn sure he doesn't need to 'turn people against Cypherrr' within Deus. What would the purpose be of such a thread?
"Turn people against Cypherrr" or "Keep people motivated to dislike Cypherrr". Take your pick. People do it often enough in public/internal forums. I don't believe the fact that he
also posted it in your forums changes much really.
Is it so hard to believe someone is genuinely appalled by (what seemed to be) respectless, relentless greed/opportunism?
I'm not saying he wasn't appalled. If it was Joe Bloggs nobling FG (let's assume that we know Joe has read the thread), what would the appropriate action be? To start a thread about how Joe Bloggs is distasteful? Wouldn't it have been more effective if he sent a private mail saying to leave the villages alone out of respect?
My opinion is that if logos1 or someone nobled FG, Glyn would not have made a thread about it. He made a thread because it's Cypherrr.
When Glyn looked up TW Stats, did his heart sink when he saw FG losing villages after her death? Did he feel upset that there were people in this world who would disrespect her memory in such fashion? Did he make a thread with his thoughts saying, "I will do this for her!"? No, he saw Cypherrr's name in the attackers column and decided to let everyone know about it.
This thread was created, apparently, to highlight a lack of respect for FG's memory. However, in about 30 posts of this thread, how many have actually reference FG as opposed to her villages? This clearly suggests to me that this thread is about pixels, not FG's memory. FG's memory is only being used to create anger/etc against someone.
Just a note that I did not intentionally come on here to flame Glyn, I just used his own "distaste" comments and deflected it off cypherr onto him to put things into perspective.