This announcement was made on LJ’s Goth community this afternoon.
Effectively immediately, upon this posting, I hereby resign from co-moderator/co-maintainer duties in association with the goth community. Additionally, I will no longer maintain membership in this LiveJournal community.
He wasn’t much of a presence, anyway, but he goes out of his way to be obsequious toward Pacione.
I apologize to Nick for not discussing this move with him before announcing it, however, I have been planning this for some time.
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Special thanks to Nick. Nick, when you first asked me to fill in for you long ago, I was not sure that I could fit the bill. I wanted to do right by you and keep this community focused as a haven for those who wanted to be a part of something and share in its many expressions without having to fear becoming targets of ridicule or harassment.
As far as I know, the only person in that community who was ridiculed was Pacione. However, that usually happened in Chicago_Gothic, not within Goth itself.
With Pacione in sole charge, I predict mass banning within Goth over the next few weeks. My understanding is that a lot of people have already left on their own. A community crumbles rather quickly when a tyrant is left in charge.
What’s ironic is that Topi says he’s not a Goth. As if Pacione is anything but a poseur?
I am certain that Topi must have been catching some of the heat from people disgruntled over the way that Nicky has handled Goth.
When people have troubles with one mod, they tend to go to the other one and complain.
That community is completely moribund anyway–it’s either Pacione’s rants or people posting show announcements. Nobody ever comments, and my guess is that most of the people who have it on their friendslists just do it for the show announcements or because they haven’t bothered to delete it.
Or, of course, for the awesome Nicky lulz.
I’m certain that people choose not to post comments because the first sign of life will attract nicky’s attention and he will attempt to interact with them.
I do think that people will start deliberately leaving in droves now. They can get their news elsewhere.
Most of them cross post the announcements to Chicago Gothic
He’s a nice guy. From what I have heard (and this shouldn’t be taken as gospel because a certain someone may stalk him too) he never was comfortable with npacione’s posts and the way he handled that site, but what really bothered him was those videos. The way Pacione’s eyes shift in those videos are very indicative of someone who has a lot of major mental problems and the fact that someone who was obviously crazy and mentally retarded was running that site into the ground and bringing a lot of heat to him really made him want to leave.
If Pacione were smart, and he very obviously isn’t, he wouldn’t have ever done a video.
Speaking of which, he did one here that no one seemed to notice
http://www.nextcat.com/profile/content/View.aspx?path=npacione.content.102776
and I think it’s his most pathetic one yet. Pacione mixes his crazy meds with booze at night and videos like the one I listed here show him when he’s drunk, as opposed to the videos where his eyes dart around and his facial expressions change more.
Good catch, friendofafriend. I usually head straight for his blog page on Nextcat, rather than his profile page. His eyes still dart around a bit, but not as often as usual.
Only Pacione would videotape himself high, and blather on and on about his mental illness. Nextcat is supposed to be sort of a catalog of professionals–not IMDB, by any means, but still. That video is the last thing he should want any potential professional contact to see.
*edit*
Just wanted to add that although I know next to nothing about him, I do feel sorry for Topi. Obviously, he’d had enough.
He’s got a new book out:
http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?search_forum=-1&search_cat=2&show_results=topics&return_chars=200&search_keywords=&keys=&fSearch=supernatural+broadcasts&fSearchFamily=0&fSubmitSearch.x=9&fSubmitSearch.y=7
Good lord… he never sounded coherent, but now he sounds like a drunk whiny incoherent bitch.
I saw that a while ago. It’s a fake. It may be real Pacione text, or merely Pacionese, but it’s the same 3.9 page rant over and over until it reaches 86 pages. Munchkin Land’s a similar fake. They probably won’t last very long at Lulu.
When will Nicky ever learn to properly sync the audio in his videos? There were quite a few instances where I hear his voice, but his mouth isn’t moving.
It’s usually out of sync, Ben. He can’t seem to do anything right–not even pronounce his own last name. He alternately says Patch-own, or Patchy-own, from one video to the next.
“properly sync the audio in his videos”
It almost sounds he tried to recycle one of the silent videos by adding audio later.
At about 3:15 he says something about how he originally wanted to be a filmmaker and something else, but I can’t make out what he’s saying.
Can anyone make out what he’s saying?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed.
But I think Nicky needs to stop making the videos period. I don’t think he could speak clearly or slowly if his life depended on it.
I fear I have to disagree with you there, Ben. I’d like to see more.
Why on Earth should I want that, I hear you ask? Mainly because my Christmas dinner has left my bowels in a precarious state, but a few more gut-laughs at his expense should help clear out the pipes, as it were…
His video blogs work against him. People can see and hear just how insane and inept he is.