As important as anything I read at GH or here... I still visit all 3 since I've always visited all 3. Conversation's universal and doesn't stop because of Philip disliking the staff here without cause. Nobody likes Scum's policies, their "community" is a joke, but when funny things happen there they become comical conversation here, it's inevitable. Not that your being de-modded is comical to me LJ, but it isn't a job I think you were cut out for... I don't know WHO is cut out for that job over there other than maybe GNT, and that's because he's the "ideal" forumite over there... He's like the Rebelscum Mascot.
Hell if he "sold a thing here and there on Ebay just to fund his collecting habit" I'd think he would be named mascot openly since I do have to admit that Matt was pretty spot-on about the whole scalping thing... I mean, it's not like that'd fly over here if it was public and I was really sorta disturbed when I read that over there too. Yikes! It totally debunked the whole "collect-to-collect" theory in my eyes and it was (as I said) just something comical to bring up... Kind of like the hypocritical links in sigs BS that was being dumped on people there when the staff were violating the same rule.
The whole thing about the picture... That's no huge deal, and I agree that it's got more made out of it because of the fact you want nothing to be known. That's your right though so who cares really but it's what fuels the fire ultimately. No harm no foul though I figure, it's not like it's any skin off your ass or anyone else's right? So no big deal...
I think most people here probably think you were de-modded for something comical in and of itself though, nothing you really did, but just more of the same old same old asinine stuff that goes on over there behind the scenes... It was porn, and not even quality stuff at that, but man for a site hard-up for mods I'd think they wouldn't be quick to act against LJ or any of their other mods. That place is barely under control as it is, so that seems counteractive to me but what do I know right?