---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
---In [email protected], <awoelflebater@...> wrote : ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : “..Also not welcome are belligerence, insults, slurs, profanity or ranting.” -Bye Doug, they were pushing you to ask them to leave. No kidding, but who would want to be a member of a club that would accept them? Especially when the guy breathing over your shoulder is a sad hypocrite. Why should we, who have been here for ages talking sense about things Buck is just too sensitive about, suddenly have to conform to what HE wants? I'm not totally seeing that, Sal. I get that you dislike me for all sorts of reasons and probably don't want or will not read this reply but here's how I see it: FFL has been an interesting forum over the years with all sorts of smart, albeit often prickly, personalities who enjoy a good discussion or argument often with the result that there is intelligent and worthwhile reading material. I have only been here for about 3 years and in that time I have seen quite a few members come and go. Some I was more than happy to see either leaving of their own volition or sometimes not but others were a loss for this group when they said "bye, bye". But during all of this there was so little moderation that it became a real free for all with all of us (with the exception of the terminally polite posters like john esq) slinging all sorts of insults and others wantonly skewing and maliciously misrepresenting others here, incessantly. We saw the whole range of bad behaviour as well as some great writing. FFL seemed to have become the place where those who expected no moderation came to hang out. As a result when things finally got to the point of some pretty ugly mudslinging and total lack of self control by certain individuals a moderator was appointed by the moderator who didn't want to really moderate and surprise - that new moderator started to apply the Yahoo guidelines to the hitherto lawless FFL. And guess what? Those most in non compliance to the guidelines got their wrists slapped and then whined or ranted or their friends whined and ranted that "it's not fair" like some little kid. In my opinion, many here simply don't want to face the fact that this place is now being moderated and that those who have, so far, been told to leave as a result of defying the guidelines either willingly dared Doug to oust them or were simply too unself aware to realize when they overstepped them. Surely by now, now that there are three who all seem to agree with each other on most things, could start their own forum and keep doing whatever the hell they want to where Doug will "leave them alone". Especially as he has no counter arguments and just hides behind his pathetic guidelines. They aren't Doug's guidelines, they are Yahoo's. It's his plan to make this place as dull as possible, with no criticism and nothing to upset the True Believer. This has been his stated plan for ever. See, now this is an example of the small thinking that makes this place reaaaalllly dull. ---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote : Buck is showing his true TM colors - hypocritical and full of crap, behavior learned from his beloved Marshy and Company - they were full of it too.
