Sledge also attempts to Doxx people routinely, and sometimes Dr. Peterson falls for it. Atrocious behavior.
I see that
Dr. Peterson made another grand gesture recently, encouraging his guests to "ignore" MDB. This isn't because he thinks its the right thing to do -- clearly he thinks this forum is a vile sewer -- but presumably because he actually and literally entered into a contract with me to do precisely that. I may just post a new thread with all of the emails, and all of the evidence of his violations, just to keep it in one place. He is openly acting like a liar and a thief, while occasionally pretending at good faith. That isn't how "good faith" works, Dan.
This isn't a petty public forum back-and-forth drama, but a legitimately aggrieved party in a private contract, voicing extreme dissatisfaction for one last time. I fulfilled my part of the contract -- in fact, below is the text of Dan's email confirming my side of the deal fulfilled. Dan eagerly promised to fulfill his part -- which extends no further than to stop trash talking MDB and to moderate such comments from his blog. Also known as being nice, discouraging sweeping denigration of the many to spite a few, turning the other cheek, leading by example, etc. etc. etc.
Now what was my motivation for engaging in such a contract with Dr. Peterson? I'll keep that to myself. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that the contract was real, he entered into it using his BYU email address, he did so voluntarily and eagerly, and now many months later, despite warning after warning, he continues to violate that contract almost every day.
I mean, what is so irresistible about expressing seething hostility toward an entire open forum, anyway? Yes, a few people here have self-selected to be "DCP watchdogs" with tenacity. Hazard of public figure, Dan, get over it already. But that isn't most users of this board, who are far more interested in discussing contemporary and historical issues about Mormonism freely and critically.
Back to my complaint with Dan -- he DID promise to ignore the board, he did promise to stop the denigration of this forum as a "long term vision", and he did that in order to raise money for the Interpreter. He did so via his BYU email account.
And yet, see below are additional instances in which Dan Peterson continues to show that he simply cannot keep his word. For some unknown reason, he simply cannot go for more than a few days without railing, or allowing his friends to rail, against MDB. The very thing he promised NOT to do, lol!!
May be I should just stop being nice and create a new thread, documenting all of the details of our emails related to this contract, and his repeated violations thereof, up to the minute. Perhaps someone will notice and talk some reason into the man. As in, to do more than respond now and then, after I post fresh few examples of his bad faith, with a patronizing comment somewhere like "A fellow over there made a generous donation to Interpreter in exchange for my good word, so please just ignore that board, I keep my promises... and now I am showing good faith -- see?"
Ahem, no Dan, everyone except apparently your devoted minions can see -- indeed, people message me all the time asking why I give you chance after chance after chance -- that you are not keeping your promise, that in fact you are acting in abjectly bad faith. Frankly, it's pathetic. You can't get mad at people for calling you dishonest when you do dishonest things. So, how about this -- just actually keep your promise by cutting out the hostile, blanket trash talking about this forum and its diverse people, and make an actual a good faith effort to strongly discourage such comments on your blog. I know you can, but WILL you?
Again, I didn't force Dan to enter this contract -- he chose it, enthusiastically. It isn't that hard. It's really not. And to be clear, I prefer relationships over transactions. If anyone has seen my other posts on this matter, I made it clear that Dan, through ongoing good faith, should consider me a potential future Interpreter donor. But he's forcing me to babysit his ridiculous insistence on being a petulant child, unaccountable for his own behavior on one simple transaction.
No wonder Bradford fired him. He's categorically impossible to deal with rationally. And evidently it's impossible to avoid breaking his promise when interacting 1-on-1 with individuals who choose to post on SeN as representatives of no one but themselves.
To illustrate, some fresh examples of Dan Peterson's bad faith, within
only the past 5 days (emphasis mine):
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4967237129
5 days ago
Look. I understand the dogmatic assumptions of your home message board, and I have no illusions about talking you out of them. But they're wrong.
In any case, you have enough evidence to convince yourself and the strongly-predisposed lot over at the
Ex-LDS QAnon clubhouse that I'm an angry and hate-consumed bigot, and I have enough to demonstrate to reasonable people that I'm not. I suggest that you concentrate your efforts over there, where your chances of success are roughly 100% (and have been roughly 100% since the board's founding).
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4967168252
5 days ago
I will not permit the comments section of my blog to be colonized by his
unfortunate message board. Sufficient to that place are the evils thereof.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4971289633
a day ago
Sorry, Moksha. I don't grant your implicit equation of supposed "vileness" here with the very
real vileness of several of the folks on who set the tone of your message board.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972244008
16 hours ago
Wow. Don't share that comment in any of the
meetings of the Ex-LDS QAnon chapter that you host. Their lives might suddenly seem entirely worthless to them.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972940962
11 minutes ago
Not over at your message board, it wasn't.
Among
the Ex-LDS QAnon faction that sets the style and tone for your board, my bigotry is one of the principal articles of their Creed.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972217260
17 hours ago
So you say; and yet, here you are, trying to make his blog an outpost of your
fetid swamp.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4970288300
2 days ago
Shades, stop trying to bait me. When everyone
from your hate site stops littering this place, you can count on me to not mention it.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972215829
17 hours ago
The fact is that your
purpose-built libel factory - a.k.a. the Peterson Obsession Board - is the world centre of anti-Dan defamation.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4971966124
a day ago
1. I didn't mention
your swamp. (Note to Shades: you may have to expand the parameters of your search if you want to be instantly notified as soon as anyone mentions your festering ooze here.)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4968573634
4 days ago
Hmm, I think you might be overstating things a bit if you suggest that Sledge's remarks rise to the level of a mote, and understating the contributions from
the Sty if you think they are only as small as a beam by comparison.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4968569375
4 days ago
The main reason I did not respond to your falsehoods at
Scumbag Central is simply that I don't wish to have anything more to do with the place.
The stench of it is sickening. A lesser reason is that your post looked like a deliberate attempt to provoke just such a response, and I didn't want to give you the satisfaction.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4971040874
2 days ago
Now you, a non-Mormon, set up a website called "Mormon information."
Now, of course, even if you proclaim that there is nothing hateful on your site (which isn't true in the first place),
its very existence *is* bigoted.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4969977029
3 days ago
And
your hate site is the platform upon which several pseudonymous cowards launch their hate.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4969973036
3 days ago
Sl:
Your sites are bigoted hate sites because they specifically attack someone else's religion. The definition of bigot is "a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972278173
16 hours ago
But the "irregulars"--that is, those who have come to sic et non to blast away at the faith of Latter-day Saints, with what Moksha calls zingers, should go back to
their disgusting home board, and do their thing there.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972985840
11 minutes ago
I was a bit cautious about identifying the tile of my essay because I had a feeling that I would be asking for trouble from those on
the hate board.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972953007
36 minutes ago
Moksha, whose world is a
hate board, does not seem to seem to realize that Elder David O. McKay has passed away.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4970475046
2 days ago
Moksha cannot seem to resist the urge to bring the hatred for me that he celebrates on
his home hate board and exhibited on Gina Colvin's blog to sic et non.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4972278173
16 hours ago
But the "irregulars"--that is, those who have come to sic et non to blast away at the faith of Latter-day Saints, with what Moksha calls zingers, should go back to their
disgusting home board, and do their thing there.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4970762422
2 days ago
Dan: You have made two bad mistakes. How so? You mentioned "Shades's message board," which might summon him from the darkness. And you mentioned that you are keeping a file. The mere mention of doing such a thing might send
those inmates, some of whom are already more than a bit paranoid, over the edge. And, given COVID-19, hospital beds seem to be in short supply.
Simple solution: since you are clearly incapable of acting in
good faith, just send the money back, and you'll be free to do all of this without the annoyance of being called out for acting in
bad faith.
For the record, Dan's confirmation that my side of our contract was fulfilled:
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Daniel Peterson <
daniel_peterson@BYU.edu>
Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:48 PM
Subject: Gracias!
To: Moore <
XXXXX@XXX.com>
It seems that your promised donation to the Interpreter Foundation has arrived. (Precisely how long ago it arrived, I don’t know. It’s been a while since I’ve been to the P.O. box.)
Thank you!
Dan Peterson