Ridiculous! I am most definately NOT out of line.
That's not your call to make. It's mine (and that of other moderators). And I just made it.
If you think I don't know that you stated your position obliquely, referring to the site's professionalism instead of Al's directly so you would have this fallback position of claiming you were not acting like a jackass, then you think I'm stupider than I am. I suspect that my calling you on it has made you angry, and that accounts for the increase in typos and the generally less coherent follow up post you've made. It is not my intent to anger you, and I'm sorry if my confrontational nature has put you off. I'm not a kid gloves handling moderator. We have different styles. Nonetheless, you did insult Al.
The logic of your argument is as follows: The site is wonderful and professional. Except when Al narrates. The obvious implied therefore is Al is not professional.
I'd have had more respect for you if you'd owned up to your disparaging remarks. I'd still have asked you to quit it, mind you, I'd just have acknowledged your courage also.
I suppose it's possible that you have so little control over your written expression that you honestly didn't
mean to impugn Al's professionalism. If so, then you should take my noting your implication as a good chance to tender an apology to Al for an unintended insult. Otherwise, you may wish to consider my earlier recommendation to cut it out. This is the second time I've asked you. I recommend you walk away from the keyboard.
Sound quality varies. Recording equipment varies. Some people do better than others. This episode excepted (and this episode is being re-recorded, Steve has already said so), Al's narrations/intros/outros/etc. would not be airing if EA staff didn't think they conformed to EA standards. Your
idea of EA's standards may not be met, but your idea may not be quite so factual as you wish to assert.
It's true. I'm minimally tolerant of veiled insults because we lose staff and volunteers over it. Posters freely cast aspersions, moderators allow them to do so because those aspersions are thinly veiled commentaries, but the people to whom they are directed read them and see them for what they are, and decide that this is not a fun place to work, where they put hours and hours in for little to no compensation and all they get for it, in Monty Python's words, is "a boot to the head".
