Reply To: Responding to the Attack Thread On Me and This Community at Cakewalk Forums

[Peter DeLegge]

Only because I’m meticulous about facts and not a fan of liars.

When Pragi was a member of LM he made two posts within minutes of each other that duplicated recently posted deals that were in the most recent 5 threads. I wrote a comment in each thread that the deals had already been posted. I am grateful for everyone who pitches in and posts deals and that duplicates happen all the time. I wrote my comment to reflect that and to show that I appreciated his effort, but I would delete the posts after he had a chance to see my comments. Soon thereafter, Pragi DMed me, furious. I really never anticipated that anyone could be furious over being informed that they duplicated a couple of deal posts, but this guy was raging. I responded that it’s no big deal, that I’ve done dupolicate posts a bunch of times and again thanked him for pitching in. He immediately started calling me disparaging names — basically, asserting that I’m an idiot — and demanded that I delete his user account. It got even stranger when he started making up a bizarres story that he had searched the forums before posting, but the search engine didn’t work. I actually checked after that, and let him know that it did work. That made him even more ticked off. He again demanded that I delete his account, tried to calm him. With every attempt I made to calm him down, he became more abusive — over something so ridiculous? I was blown away.

So I suggested that I give him a day to think about it, and I’d email him and see if he still wanted me to close his account. He hurled another insult back at me for that idea. asserting that I’m too stupid to listen. The next day, I emailed him to double-check, hoping that he had calmed down. He didn’t. He took his abusiveness to a new level and started comparing me to a dictator, asserting that the power of having a “Forum” had gone to my head and I was basically drunk with power. It was so ridiculous and he was so rude and obnoxious without a hint of respect or decency, that I gave up trying with the guy and agreed to close his account. I no longer wanted the guy as part of the community at that point anyhow. So, I told him that I would close his account and look into deleting all of his posts, like he asked (there’s no legal obligation to do that, but I really just wanted to be done with the guy). So I give him everything he wants, and it insults me once more. At that point, I was ticked, and I told him I thought he was a real jerk. And I stand by that. Pragi is certainly a jerk and if I showed every single screenshot, I don’t think any fair-minded person would disagree.

Now, here’s the fictitious version of events Pragi shared on Cakewalk Forum:

“He banned me and called me a jerk after I posted a deal 2 times in the deals forum by accident.”  – Pragi today on the Cakewalk Forum.

Here is a screenshot of my initial email to Pragi following his making a request to leave at the site. You can decide for yourself if the subject line, “Are you sure you want to terminate your membership?”  and his response, “Yes,” reflects his claim that I banned him and caled him a jerk after he posted a deal 2 times — and he didn’t make 2 duplicate posts, he duplicated other people’s posts twice. And it’s ridiculous, the most absurd of lies that I would ban someone for doing that.  But of course, this is social media, so when there’s a conflict — as there was here — I always take screenshots and have receipts on everything. Here goes:

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