I'm really not going to waste my time doing that. I have my reasons for that too. Some people really aren't going to understand regardless. Also not ranting. I wrote that more thought it was a nice thing.
Honestly I'm unbanned at this point so why does it even matter. I said what I wanted to say. Not going to jump through hoops for people that aren't willing to do that for me. Been there done that.
He's the one who banned me.
4 day suspension too. It's his board. Not going to the supreme court either. He can be roger goodell. It's not like he was rushing to apoligize to me. Honestly i have been there too and will bend over backwards for people and it's really not worth it with stuff like that.
Why should he apologize?
You obviously are the one who said something that made somebody feel offended. It's not up to him to apologize for being offended - it's up to you to apologize for making him feel offended, even if you don't feel he was warranted in feeling that way.
And you keep saying that you aren't ranting, but with all due respect that's pretty much exactly what this entire threat composes of - ranting. You may not see it as ranting, but based on the comments of others so far it seems like just about every other person who has replied has seen it that way too - but instead of acknowledging it, you choose to criticize those people for their lack of understanding. If everybody who reads the threads feels that you are ranting, then obviously your posts are in the style of a rant - whether you choose to accept that or not.
Sometimes we have to detach ourselves from a situation emotionally and look at it objectively in order to see it the way others may be seeing it.
For example, the title of this threead gives off the impression that the thread centers around the subjects of Mike Gorman and Nerlens Noel. Clearly it doesn't, since about 80% - 90% of the posts you have made in the threat focus on the subject of your ban and the person who enforced that ban.
This makes your thread appear deceiving - I actually opened the thread because I was curious to hear what Mike Gorman allegedly said about Nerlens Noel. If your threat title read "I was banned unfairly blah blah rant" then I never would have opened it. This gives off the impression that you purposely set the subject as you did purely to draw interest towards the thread so that you could get an audience for your ranting and complaining. Perhaps this is not your reason for doing it that way, but it's how it come across...given the title has little to do with the actual content of the thread.
So again, you're very quick to blame / criticize other people for not understanding the reasoning behind your words / actions, but you don't seem to (for a moment) stop and ask yourself - is it maybe you who has simply not communicated your message very clearly?
You even admit yourself (just above) that you can see how your words may have been taken the way they were. So in other words, you are openly acknowledging that your choice of words were not the best, and that your comment(s) were a little ambiguous / open to interpretation. So how can you criticize somebody for taking your words the wrong way, when you openly admit that your comment was worded in a questionable way, that would be easy to take the wrong way?
You're right, the internet is a textual form of communication, and as such it can be very difficult to accurately portray emotion / expression / tone. But that's not the fault of the person who's reading. It upt o us to take responsibly for the words we write, and make sure we are taking measures to make sure it's not written in a way that can be easily misunderstood. If we do make that mistake of miscommunication then that's OK, it happens. But it's own own error, so it's up to us to accept responsibility for that error and take measures to make it right. Maybe that means contact the person who was offended and apologizing, even if it's something that seems silly to you. Something that is light hearted to one person can be extremely offensive to another. That's just the nature of the game.
I'm sure you mean no ill by your comments, but that means nothing if you:
1) Aren't communicating your intentions clearly
and
2) Aren't willing to listen to constructive criticism on how you may better communicate your thoughts.
But anyway I won't drag on any further if you don't have a desire to go any further into it, as I'm not trying to start an argument or create any drama here. I just wanted to give some feedback on steps you might be able to take in future to avoid similar undesirable results. Whether you listen to feedback or do your own thing, entirely up to you.