Blackhawk wrote:Food for thought:
The only place you can read about this mythical feud between Dag and Bel, is here, so I wonder which party is responsible for fanning those flames?
In a way you are right Blackhawk, but only in a way. Make no mistake, the is no mythical feud, it is very real, and it is not between the individuals who fight, but the leadership of Dagorhir and the rest of the foam fighting world.
keep in mind I am not just some guy with a beef with Dag. I started fighting long before the split, in Dur-D. I was absent during the split, so I too had originally no political issues with Dag. A friend found thier website, and we started a realm. Signed the contract and ran the realm for two years as a Dag realm. As our realm became more involved with the local foamfighting groups (read Belegarth), pressure from Dag leadership became more pronounced to not work with them. As our realm became more involved we were asked to join Belegarth WC since we had come to Chaos for a couple of years. It was at the point at which we officially became a belegarth realm that Dag began to threaten us with Legal action. Admittedly we were skirting the line in the sand. Not long after that our realm voted and decided to join Belegarth in whole and leave Dag behind, so we cancelled our contract. At that point I was hit with the Ban hammer, presumably for joining the "other side".
This was also 5-6 years ago, and from what I am reading it seems things are changing in the leadership of Dag. which I feel is a good thing. When the new boards were introduced my ban was lifted so I attempted to find out why i was banned in the first place, and recieved no response through e-mails. So I called Dom out in public forum ( I know, not the wisest thing, but I was * by then) and was again banned, permanently this time I guess.
Now all I really wanted in the first place was to get an answer, just some common courtesy. "Why was I banned?" was all I asked and was never given the answer, from the first time to the last.
So when I say I won't support Dag, it's not just their web policies I am objecting to, it's the entire way the organization is run, from the static BoD that only comes from Aratari to the web board policies, I just don't agree with it and can't support it. I speak only for myself, and no one else. I do not encourage others to boycott Dag events, it's a personal protest. I agree that the removal of the people in "charge" and replacing them with more forward thinking people, like yourself Blackhawk, would most likely benefit the foamfighing community as a whole and would encourage that wholeheartedly.
I wouldn't mind being able to post on the Dag boards, but having looked at what's being put up there through proxies, I really have nothing to say there. I could do it, and be fine with it, I have no reason to break the rules there, i am just not allowed.
I have chosen my side and I will stick with it until Dag changes their isolationist policies.