[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-29 Thread Buck
Seems Yahoo! By policy guidelines of moderation is not the only internet provider Ratcheting up troll-controls: Huffingtonpost: I predict the same will happen here and anywhere else where troll-controls are ratcheting up. Instead of killing business, it will bring back those who've stayed away,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-29 Thread authfriend
By invoking Yahoo guidelines and HuffPo's decision to prohibit anonymous commenting, you are overlooking the fact that unlike HuffPo commenters and many if not most Yahoo groups, FFL is a *community with a history*, not a bunch of strangers on the Internet, as one FFL poster (now absent)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-29 Thread Bhairitu
Ariana Huffington is a computer illiterate probably still trying to figure out her Blackberry. A lot of the late comers to computer seem to hate anonymity but it is as old as the hills. And so are trolls. You must not have read the letters to the editors in newspapers back in the day where

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: snip Handles became popular because with 300 baud modems you didn't want to waste bits on your full name. Nor did we want to waste bits on Dear, so the memo form was adopted for email and online posts. FWIW, many women use

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-29 Thread Buck
Yes, responding to this ongoing threat to our group community here on FFL posed by the posting of these posters there should be zero tolerance for the perp of the ad hominem here at FFL. -Buck Seems Yahoo By policy guidelines of moderation is not the only internet provider Ratcheting up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread Buck
Yup, the ad hominem is right up the with pornography on Yahoo groups. Yahoo is being ahead of the curve on this on the internet. Yahoo really is being quite good and spiritual with its new guidelines for groups. FFL should come into alignment. Friends, But the larger problem we have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread doctordumbass
Although they are depicted in cartoons a lot, I actually saw a guy in Los Angeles, once, wearing a sandwich board, that read, Repent! The end is near!. I remember looking at his expression, and thinking how unflustered he looked. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread Richard J. Williams
authfriend: Buck, just a thought: Why don't you climb down off your way-too-high horse and join in some of the conversations here? Like, you know, an actual human being? Here's an idea, Buck: let's ignore all the minions, Pips and MGs and their Judy-Barry-Robin banter. Then, the simple

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: authfriend: Buck, just a thought: Why don't you climb down off your way-too-high horse and join in some of the conversations here? Like, you know, an actual human being? Here's an idea, Buck: let's ignore all the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread turquoiseb
Stop talking *at* us and talk *with* us. Whatever for? If the function of Internet discussion groups is to provide 'food for thought,' then FFL has become McDonalds.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Stop talking *at* us and talk *with* us. Whatever for? There it is stated in two words followed by a question mark. I get it now. And thank you. If the function of Internet discussion groups is to provide 'food for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread Share Long
turqish delight, why so uptight? trees have a blight? world has a plight? Delay of a flight and no yummies to bite? No sleep in the night, dream fall from a height? Hair such a sight, bed head quite?! No buddies to fight or even feel fright, No posts to write with pinchy of spite? Left too

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: turqish delight, why so uptight? trees have a blight? world has a plight? Delay of a flight and no yummies to bite? No sleep in the night, dream fall from a height? Hair such a sight, bed head quite?! No buddies to fight or even

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread obbajeeba
Ah look! Perfect Kite by Ann! Share has grown some balls and is getting bolder, standing up to the beast-hole turd ! LOL --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: turqish delight, why so uptight? trees

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Buck, just a thought: Why don't you climb down off your way-too-high horse and join in some of the conversations here? Like, you know, an actual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-28 Thread Richard J. Williams
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Buck
Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas with each other. .. Yahoo! sets out the terms and conditions of your use ..   some of the key things to remember are: 1. You may not harass, abuse, threaten, or advocate violence  Friends; But we got a larger problem

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Buck
Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas with each other. .. Yahoo! sets out the terms and conditions of your use ..   some of the key things to remember are: 1. You may not harass, abuse, threaten, or advocate violence  Yep, personal by its nature the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: Actually, Buck's shtick is getting a bit old and particularly tedious for a number of reasons. Part of me wants to believe he's putting us on and part of me is terribly afraid he's serious. Whatever it is I have to agree

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Richard J. Williams
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bobpriced bobpriced@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Buck
Recent case in point, quote: I thought it was mean spirited, actually. Same old invectives hurled at someone: Are you dumb, or dull, or nuts? Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas with each other. .. Yahoo! sets out the terms and conditions of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Buck
People obviously have way too many posts to fire and burn here. Recent case in point, quote: I thought it was mean spirited, actually. Same old invectives hurled at someone: Are you dumb, or dull, or nuts? Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas with each other. .. Yahoo! sets out the terms and conditions of your use .. some of the key things to remember are: 1. You may not harass, abuse, threaten, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread obbajeeba
sorry I am from an island inhabited by the French, my English is not so well.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas with each

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread obbajeeba
ly on on. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas with each other. .. Yahoo! sets out the terms and conditions of your use ..

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Bhairitu
I'm wondering if Buck is one the TM'ers who doesn't get calm from meditation but anxiety instead? IOW, TM isn't for him and needs a different technique. On 08/26/2013 07:46 PM, emptybill wrote: Quit complaining. You sound like an old woman with excess stomach acid. Just start your own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Richard J. Williams
Buck: People obviously have way too many posts to fire and burn here. Now this is really funny - a guy posts an ad hominem, a classic logical fallacy, to a thread about not posting any more ad hominems. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/355407

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Buck
Friends, But the larger problem we have now is with the new Yahoo guidelines and our under-moderated ad hominem homid members threatening the life=blood of the whole group. People obviously have way too many posts to fire and burn here. Recent case in point, quote: I thought it was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Friends, But the larger problem we have now is with the new Yahoo guidelines and our under-moderated ad hominem homid members threatening the life=blood of the whole group. People obviously have way too many posts to fire and burn

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread obbajeeba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqv6PIH_ymY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqv6PIH_ymY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Friends, But the larger problem we have now is with the new Yahoo guidelines and our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread authfriend
Buck, just a thought: Why don't you climb down off your way-too-high horse and join in some of the conversations here? Like, you know, an actual human being? Show us how it's done, buddy. Stop talking *at* us and talk *with* us. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-27 Thread obbajeeba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWBAKMYKPSc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWBAKMYKPSc --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: Buck, just a thought: Why don't you climb down off your way-too-high horse and join in some of the conversations here? Like, you know, an actual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread Buck
Yep these people have taken toll the life spark of FairfieldLife here on Yahoo-groups with the Ad hominems. Time comes now to do with serious moderation or surely let the list die entirely. Seems a time has come for action one way or the other. Radical action. Resuscitation or it dies.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread Buck
Friends; But we got a larger problem in want of a better decorum for FFL: Yes, by the virtue of the new Yahoo-groups guidelines being placed over us we should directly outlaw the ad hominem and name-calling forms of argument as lower than the lowest and directly banish those who use them here

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Quit complaining. You sound like an old woman with excess stomach acid. Hey, how about an old man with excess stomach acid? Actually, Buck's shtick is getting a bit old and particularly tedious for a number of reasons.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Friends; But we got a larger problem in want of a better decorum for FFL: Yes, by the virtue of the new Yahoo-groups guidelines being placed over us we should directly outlaw the ad hominem and name-calling forms of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread emptybill
Quit complaining. You sound like an old woman with excess stomach acid. Just start your own forum so you can rule it as you choose. Not willing? Then shut the fuck up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Friends; But we got a larger problem in want of a better decorum for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Quit complaining. You sound like an old woman with excess stomach acid. Hey, how about an old man with excess stomach acid? Actually, Buck's shtick

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread bobpriced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9T25SMyz3A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9T25SMyz3A --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Buck wrote: Yep these people have taken toll the life spark of FairfieldLife here on Yahoo-groups with the Ad hominems. Time

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread bobpriced
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , emptybill wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL lets return to but35 posts per week

2013-08-26 Thread emilymae.reyn
OMG. This may qualify you for the coveted Pippy Mean Girl award --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bobpriced bobpriced@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com