When in the Course of forum events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the moderational bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all posters are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Trolling, Butthurt and the pursuit of Animated GIFs. - That to secure these rights, Moderators are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the moderated, - That whenever any Form of Moderation becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Posters to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Forum, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Trolling and Gifs. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Moderators long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that posters are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of bannings and post-editings, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Moderation, and to provide new Guards for their future lulz. - Such has been the patient sufferance of these Forums; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Moderation. The history of the present Administrator of OSA is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Forums. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all posters are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Trolling, Butthurt and the pursuit of Animated GIFs. - That to secure these rights, Moderators are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the moderated, - That whenever any Form of Moderation becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Posters to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Forum, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Trolling and Gifs. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Moderators long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that posters are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of bannings and post-editings, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Moderation, and to provide new Guards for their future lulz. - Such has been the patient sufferance of these Forums; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Moderation. The history of the present Administrator of OSA is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Forums. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
