Stepping Up To The Line

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:37 pm

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James Fallows

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:37 pm

woppy71 wrote: The wopster loves you all;):)

Woppy

I appreciate your taking the time to express your thoughts here.

And I love you too Wopster :-4

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:37 pm

Lulu2 wrote: I've just told Cher...I'm going to stop now. I don't want to see the level of this thread turn into something Spot can cheerfully report at his "home" site (for the delight of his juvenile buddies,) and I don't want to be part of a blatant war here.

Anyone with a theasaurus can create the posts he does...he fits in better at RR.

Be careful not to give him any more satisfaction friends!

Now...I'm off to update my IGNORE thread.....

I read an interesting bumper sticker this weekend "silence kills babies, speak up about abortion" No I am not going on about abortion, I am going on about the concept of being silent... Sorry I can't do it any longer.

Let me be the first to say I still call Spot my friend and am honored to have had the pleasure of meeting him in person.

Some of you are letting this cyber world get the better of you and it's tearing apart what once was a great forum.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:37 pm

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:39 pm

Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb

um...what?

Post by **spot** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:41 pm

minks wrote: Some of you are letting this cyber world get the better of you and it's tearing apart what once was a great forum.You may be overblowing the scale of the rebellion, minksy. It's Paul (which isn't going to surprise anyone at all, given our history), Lulu and (sadly) cher, nobody else. Small earthquake, nobody dead.

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:42 pm

This person and their multiple identities have had their accounts tied-up. I'll also notify their ISP of illegal computer network hacking if they attempt to register again or disrupt FG.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:44 pm

minks wrote: Let me be the first to say I still call Spot my friend and am honored to have had the pleasure of meeting him in person.

Some of you are letting this cyber world get the better of you and it's tearing apart what once was a great forum.

Interesting point, Minks. I have made a decision to choose my battles from now on, and probably will stay silent about many "controversial" matters from here on in. I have people here I really do enjoy, and people whose posts I do not always read. Just as in the real world...we are not immediatly drawn to all we meet. And this forum is the closest to the real world I have been in a long while.

Oh well, I have made absolutely no sense whatsoever...back pain + pain medication. Need I say more?

Post by **spot** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:44 pm

Tombstone wrote: This person and their multiple identities have had their accounts tied-up. I'll also notify their ISP of illegal computer network hacking if they attempt to register again or disrupt FG.
People would like the opportunity to ignore me, I suggest you give it to them.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:49 pm

Tombstone wrote: This person and their multiple identities have had their accounts tied-up. I'll also notify their ISP of illegal computer network hacking if they attempt to register again or disrupt FG.Are you talking about ruula/ penistrope???

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:50 pm

Marie5656 wrote: Interesting point, Minks. I have made a decision to choose my battles from now on, and probably will stay silent about many "controversial" matters from here on in. I have people here I really do enjoy, and people whose posts I do not always read. Just as in the real world...we are not immediatly drawn to all we meet. And this forum is the closest to the real world I have been in a long while.

Oh well, I have made absolutely no sense whatsoever...back pain + pain medication. Need I say more?

I am an oldie in FG years and know how good this forum can be hence my posts.

I have also met a handful of FG members and know that they as do everyone else contribute to a great forum. It's just sad to watch it unravel.

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:51 pm

abbey wrote: Are you talking about ruula/ penistrope???

Correct.

Adam Zapple · Post by **Adam Zapple** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:51 pm

minks, stop being so reasonable.:wah:

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:53 pm

Adam Zapple wrote: minks, stop being so reasonable.:wah:

color me outta here then.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:56 pm

I like you, Minks. You are one of the cool ones here. Cher, too.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:59 pm

minks wrote: I read an interesting bumper sticker this weekend "silence kills babies, speak up about abortion" No I am not going on about abortion, I am going on about the concept of being silent... Sorry I can't do it any longer.

Let me be the first to say I still call Spot my friend and am honored to have had the pleasure of meeting him in person.

Some of you are letting this cyber world get the better of you and it's tearing apart what once was a great forum.

Sure as hell more bad times than good recently - it's becoming the norm rather than the exception :yh_sigh

And yes, Spot's still on my friends list and likely to remain there for a long time.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:05 pm

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:14 pm

Remember the Alamo!!!

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:34 pm

flopstock wrote: Well Jesus Christ caught in his mothers dress!!! (religious reference tossed in for benefit of RR cross-members:wah: )

This is what happens when i get called in early and take a nap on my lunch hour instead of checking on you people!!

Minks... I like spot too

Paul... You don't. I get that. We all get that. Okay fine. Can we please move on to elephants now??

I saw the other post over at the other site. And immediately starting giving him crap for it. End of the world, give me your liver you curr crap... NO!

Why not floppy, everyone gasps??!!

Because #1 IT WAS IN ANOTHER FORUM, #2 HE POSTED IT WHILE IN DEFENSE OF SOMEONE TOTALLY UNINVOLVED IN OUR CURRENT ANGST, #3 AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO ME.. I READ IT 'IN CONTEXT' WITH THE WHOLE CONVERSATION GOING ON THERE AT THE TIME.

To have tied more importance to this then it warranted, rewards someone, who does not deserve it, the one who attacked Abbey and our Spot stepped forward to defend.

That was what he was in that thread for.. not to join in the bashing of the naive folks at the garden.

Can we get our heads out of our butts for a moment here? Why are we dragging crap from other forums in here? It none of our business in here, what people say or do elsewhere, unless like Spot, you choose to join in there and discuss their behavior with them there. That's what they do there. That is not what we do in this place.

He DID NOT start another screaming match here to go after the troll who attacked one of ours, he took it to its home base. He made the choice not to stir it up in here.

If we let it feed on us, they win. That simple kids.:-5

Now, knock it off already, 'kay?:-4

great post Floppy, I consider Spot a friend too! :-6

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:39 pm

Marie5656 wrote: I like you, Minks. You are one of the cool ones here. Cher, too.

Marie

I truly appreciate that comment. I thank you for it :-6

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:41 pm

flopstock wrote: Because #1 IT WAS IN ANOTHER FORUM, #2 HE POSTED IT WHILE IN DEFENSE OF SOMEONE TOTALLY UNINVOLVED IN OUR CURRENT ANGST, #3 AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO ME.. I READ IT 'IN CONTEXT' WITH THE WHOLE CONVERSATION GOING ON THERE AT THE TIME.

Floopy my friend

You are entitled to your opinion and I truly respect your right to it.

But I disagree with you.

I hope you respect my right to do that :-6

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:52 pm

I agree totally with Cher in all this.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:55 pm

flopstock wrote:

He DID NOT start another screaming match here to go after the troll who attacked one of ours, he took it to its home base. He made the choice not to stir it up in here.

If we let it feed on us, they win. That simple kids.

Now, knock it off already, 'kay?

Thank you - at last the informed voice of reason

I'm glad someone knows what's been going on round here and is prepared to tell it like it is.

:yh_worshp:yh_worshp:yh_worshp

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:02 pm

Think I 've had enough.

Post by **spot** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:08 pm

Pinky wrote: come on people, use your own powers of deduction here instead of jumping on the bloody bandwagon.There's a wonderfully refreshing lack of bandwagon actually, Pinks. I can remember the day when anastrophe could garner a horde just by riding up to yurts and flinging a spear into the ground outside each door.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:19 pm

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

~Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:24 pm

flopstock wrote: Oh this is helpful, you turd!

now shut up please... hold your breath if the need be... tie your fingers to a cuppa or something similarly british... and stop~:-5

As I said - telling it like it is :wah:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:32 pm

anastrophe wrote: for the record, i have formally requested of tombstone that the westcliff debating forum be dismantled, or at minimum spot's moderator privileges be revoked, so that we may have the choice to put spot on ignore if we wish.
Thank you, I asked to put him on ignore over a week ago.

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:36 pm

spot wrote: There's a wonderfully refreshing lack of bandwagon actually, Pinks. I can remember the day when anastrophe could garner a horde just by riding up to yurts and flinging a spear into the ground outside each door.

would you do us all the courtesy of responding to tombstone on the matter of ceding your moderatorship to the westcliff debating rules forum?

i'd like the ability to add you to my ignore list, which cannot happen as long as you are the one person on forumgarden with the privilege of moderatorship.

thank you.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:38 pm

anastrophe wrote: would you do us all the courtesy of responding to tombstone on the matter of ceding your moderatorship to the westcliff debating rules forum?

i'd like the ability to add you to my ignore list, which cannot happen as long as you are the one person on forumgarden with the privilege of moderatorship.

thank you.

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showp ... tcount=459

He did!

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:47 pm

Bryn Mawr wrote: http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showp ... tcount=459

He did!

i was referring to a different communication, thanks anyway.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:49 pm

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:55 pm

flopstock wrote: To have tied more importance to this then it warranted, rewards someone, who does not deserve it, the one who attacked Abbey and our Spot stepped forward to defend.

as you might imagine, i disagree with how important it is. as i've said, a sincere apology does not contain 'finely honed insults' embedded in it. it simply doesn't.

Can we get our heads out of our butts for a moment here? Why are we dragging crap from other forums in here? It none of our business in here, what people say or do elsewhere, unless like Spot, you choose to join in there and discuss their behavior with them there. That's what they do there. That is not what we do in this place.

uh, this is rather backwards. the attack happened here, so he discussed it over on RR. spot admitted his apology was no such thing over on RR - which needed to be pointed out here to those he chose to ridicule.

He DID NOT start another screaming match here to go after the troll who attacked one of ours, he took it to its home base. He made the choice not to stir it up in here.

uh. yeah. he chose not to admit here that his apology here was insincere. then gloated about it on RR. i would imagine he wouldn't want to discuss his ethical penury where he committed it.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:15 pm

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:44 pm

Pinky wrote: Right, can we quit this now? There is something more important that you all need to know. Please read the where is CC thread

Hear Hear Pinky, certainly puts things into perspective huh?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:30 pm

Bryn Mawr wrote: Sure as hell more bad times than good recently - it's becoming the norm rather than the exception :yh_sigh

.You're reading different threads than I, then.

Trixie Belle · Post by **Trixie Belle** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:17 pm

spot wrote: I do hope you go and read the thread there, Cher. It's an analysis of the attack on Abbey and my criticism of the poster who did it.

Try re-reading "I was amazed that anyone took what I wrote for an apology" - it doesn't say it wasn't an apology, it says that I was surprised that it was accepted as one. If you think it means anything else then do tell me why and I can understand your position better.

Wow, you sure do talk out both sides of your mouth... do you kiss your mom with it too???

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:18 pm

Pinky well said and I agree, time to let this go we are a great group of people here we need to be kind to each other. :-4

Trixie Belle · Post by **Trixie Belle** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:37 pm

Pinky wrote: I can't even believe this has been dredged up again...FFS, someone has died! Who phucking cares about this crap anymore? It's pathetic...drop the bloody ego trip and shut the hell up about it!

There's an IGNORE button for a reason, feel free to use it.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:38 pm

Trixie Belle wrote: Wow, you sure do talk out both sides of your mouth... do you kiss your mom with it too???

Just report the post. She isn't worth it.