Author: KarinsDad
Date: 21:48:29 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 23:15:27, odell hall wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 20:31:52, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On January 11, 2000 at 17:32:12, odell hall wrote: >> >>>Amen brother!!! This exact thing happened to me, I posted a rather innocent >>>article wanting to know the reasons why programmers don't sell their programs to >>>the public, and was insulted about ten times, none of the moderators said a >>>word, but as soon as I started swinging back then the moderators jumped on my >>>with all fours!! There is obviously favoritism, and selective persecution at >>>this group. We need moderators who are more inteliigent, less emotional, and >>>who are not prone to favoritism. Some people here can say anying and insult >>>anyone, and no one says a word. Then there is others that do absolutely nothing, >>>but perhaps make a negative implication and the whole group attacks them. There >>>are obviously some unspoken tabboo's here. I think the number 1 tabboo is never >>>say anything negative about crafty no matter how honest your opinion is. >>>Extremly childish to say the least. >> >>Perhaps your suspension taught you nothing. For the record: >> >>1) You can't accuse someone of having their head up someone else's ass. >> >>2) You can't call someone a "racist asshole". >> >>3) After being warned not to do the above anymore, you can't accuse someone of >>wasting their life and call them a clown. >> >>Oh yes, and all of this was *after* previous warnings. I gave you a gimme >>because I thought that you might be right that someone had been picking on you, >>and that perhaps you deserved another chance. >> >>Do you want to try for another month? If so, just take another shot at someone, >>similar to the above. >> >>I am so glad I argued to suspend you for one month rather than the suggested >>three. >> >>bruce > > > Bruce you are kidding right? In the above tirade you make it sound like i >just began a campaign to randomly insult people! Is it at all possible that >some of the ugly remarks made in the above were provoked? This is exactly what >I am talking about, in this forum someone is insulted, when the victim decides >to "fight back", then ironically the victim is made out to be the bad guy. >Which is ass-backwards, Especially since we all know it is simply human nature >to fight back when attacked, our natural response is to react when injured. If >the moderators did their job to begin with, and deleted any post of an offensive >or vulgar nature (regardless of who it is) then it would be unneccesary to >respond in this way. You said yourself that you argued for my suspension being >a month instead of three, because you thought i might have been picked on?? I >wonder what gave you that impression?? Could it be my rather innocent article >about Chess programmers who refuse to make the programs available to the >public?? By the way I read my article to over fifteen people who are not part >of this forum not one person found anything insulting or offensive in my >article. What the consensus was from these people was that I was dealing with a >bunch of nuts, based on some of the responses here I would have to agree. You do >seem overly zealous to boot me out the group when I respond to a insult, I wish >you would prosecute with equal Zeal those who would use derrogatory remarks >against me. Until you do this the only thing I will learn is just how >hypocritical this place is. Odell, You are kidding, right? Did you also tell your friends that 20 minutes before sending the moderators an Email about this situation (the proper course of action for you to do), you responded to the following statement: "I don't understand why you (Bruce) even try to respond rationally or defensively to such a looney statement (in reference to Odell's post)." with: "So you can go to h*** and while your at it suck lucifer's ..... A**h***" ? Note: *'s and () content's added by KD, the original message did not have them. You had responded extremely harshly to one of the people who criticized your post as opposed to criticizing you. You jumped all over him and not just his opinion. Of course the moderators will not consider his statement nearly as abusive as the extremely harsh one of yours in response. And you consider yourself the victim here? And what good is going to the moderators AFTER you have already drastically violated the charter? Hello!!! Did the concept of going to the moderators first ever occur to you (and yes, I still have the records to prove that this happened)? You would not have been the focus of the moderators that day if you would have just Emailed us as opposed to jumping on top of everyone who disagreed with or criticized your opinion. Disagree back with people all you want Odell, but leave the profanity and abuse in the back of your mind where it belongs. Let it rest. Don't give yourself a coronary. It's not that important. This is a forum. People are allowed to disagree. Just don't take it to the extremes that you did last time. And if you have a problem, please, please, please Email the moderators without putting profanity or abusiveness on the forum. Finally, you'll win more friends around here with honey than with vinegar. KarinsDad :) PS. To all the people here who keep whining that the moderators show favoritism (this is getting old too), I have one thing to say. The moderators have attempted to be fair in all situations. If you get caught in a situation, it's just possible that you are partially or mostly to blame. Try looking in a mirror once in a while and ask yourself "Is it possible that someone did not interpret my message the way I intended it? Is it possible to read something else into my message? Is it possible that with multiple people disagreeing, that I may not be totally right or totally clear in this instance?". Don't always assume that you are in the right and others are in the wrong, just because they disagree with you or just because your posts are the ones that got deleted this time around. It happens when people violate the charter. Live with it. And if it happens to you, let it improve the quality of your messages in the future so that it does not happen again, as opposed to bringing it up over and over and over again. You guys sometimes sound like my mom who tells me the same story fifty times before she realizes that she already told me that one.
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