Wait, we're buddies with krusher? when did this happen?
We actually try to be very very even handed, if you find any favouratism PM me straight away because that's not on.
I was fairly new to the board, got into an escalating speed game with Krusher and some of his boys. Played some great strategy, was well on my way to a victory and 100+ points then krusher pulled some suicide antics on me so that I wouldn't get the win and his buddies would, thus he'd loose less points. It wasn't technically illegal, but I was new and didn't realize it, and anyway, I thought it was a crappy thing to do because it definitely had an preconceived "alliance-ish" feel to it. I called them some names, they talked the trash back, we left each other negatives.
Krusher got the mod to remove my negative because of Foul Language. Why couldn't the mod ask me to edit it? In that same game, I left feedback for his buddy he protected, and the mod removed it because it wasn't factual. What the hell is that? Not factual?
Fast forward a few months, I went back and forth for 3-4 long emails with achilles about how I felt a feedback I received wasn't factual. And he just played it off like it had nothing to do with fact and everything to do with a users perception. Apparently, a user can claim you asked for a secret alliance, even though you never did such a thing, but the mod will let it stand because it
appeared like you were asking for a secret alliance, and it's the user experience, or perception that counts. Jesus, I'd expect this much rule bending and double talk out of the current US administration, but not from a mod on a website in the corner of the intarnets.