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Post by swamp on May 29, 2013 20:27:29 GMT -5
Being a jerk isn't against the COC.
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swamp
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THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS!!!!!!!
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Post by swamp on May 29, 2013 20:30:00 GMT -5
Me too.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 20:31:57 GMT -5
I'm starting to understand why so many people are leaving lately. WTF happened to the Doxie is a Troll thread? Did Doxie complain about it? I was under the impression she liked to be teased.
This place is getting too boring as it is! ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
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Post by Miss Tequila on May 29, 2013 20:32:04 GMT -5
I made a statement. I'm not going to run to a moderator every time I disagree with someone. Let people's ignorant posts stay and let the community handle it. We don't need mom to come in and clean up our messes. Not to mention, it is really irritating to come to a thread that has 15 deleted posts....then I need to spend time trying to figure out what the hell I missed!
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swamp
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Post by swamp on May 29, 2013 20:39:21 GMT -5
POM I agree... This site feels so "sanitized" lately. It's lost it's personality. And yes mods I know I'm free to leave but I've been a member of this community for longer than pretty much all of you (the mods)... So it's sad to see how we can only post what a handful of people deem appropriate. Tina, next time I'll copy and paste to a word document so you can catch up. But have you been here as long as doxie?
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Post by swamp on May 29, 2013 20:43:49 GMT -5
But I can drive better than you in snow.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 20:46:09 GMT -5
Pfft. I was on my cell phone taking pictures when 911 happened.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 20:47:49 GMT -5
Uh. Yeah. You, ummm, win. <<plugs nose and leaves the thread>>
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Post by swamp on May 29, 2013 20:48:17 GMT -5
Yes, you hauled them, around in a wagon.
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Post by The Captain on May 29, 2013 20:54:02 GMT -5
Damn! Once again I've missed out on something. I REALLY wanted to read the troll thread too At least I know it's ok to be an a$$hole...
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 21:05:02 GMT -5
I think those are allowed. I'm still here. What IS that smell?!
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Post by NastyWoman on May 29, 2013 21:45:49 GMT -5
Dang, don't you people know that you need to save interesting threads until us WC people are home from work? I keep missing all the interesting stuff
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Post by whoisjohngalt on May 29, 2013 22:05:27 GMT -5
Oh lordy - did princess get offended and asked for the thread to be deleted?
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 22:20:27 GMT -5
Oh lordy - did princess get offended and asked for the thread to be deleted? It depends on who you think the princess is. <<gives MM the stink eye>>
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Post by mmhmm on May 29, 2013 22:28:03 GMT -5
As I've explained in PMs to a couple of you, when a post breaks ProBoards' ToS, it has to go ... that is, unless we'd like the whole message board to be deleted. That's how it is, people. You don't have to deal with ProBoards. I don't, either. Moonbeam does, and she deserves our respect and understanding, and our support. She's worked hard for this message board. So has Virgil. It's a community and it serves quite a number of people. No, we can't all say whatever we want. Heck, we can't do that in the outside world, either, if we'd like to keep our jobs, and our homes, and our families. Sometimes, we've just got to suck it up and go with the rules. This is one of those times. Personally, I'd like to keep the message board, and I'd like to keep moonbeam from having her arse chewed by ProBoards because we don't remove posts that break their ToS.
As for the "Doxie thread", threads that single out an individual poster for ridicule are just not going to fly. It's great fun as long as you're not the target. Moonbeam has said she doesn't want that kind of thing here, and such threads will be removed. That's the way it is. If that's what you're looking for, there are plenty of message boards out there that will happily let you reduce another poster to nothing more than an oozing puddle of slime. Feel free to do it on one of those boards if that's something you want to be able to do.
mmhmm, Administrator, who's sorry to have broken into an otherwise friendly conversation, but really needed to let you all understand why some things are as they are
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Post by whoisjohngalt on May 29, 2013 22:32:53 GMT -5
Oh lordy - did princess get offended and asked for the thread to be deleted? It depends on who you think the princess is. <<gives MM the stink eye>> Doxie. I don't know what other things I can call her without getting in trouble with mmmhhh -
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Post by whoisjohngalt on May 29, 2013 22:38:11 GMT -5
OK, I only read may be 1% of Doxie's posts - I certainly have no time or patience for her threads, but any post I read - it was just a complete and total mockery of this forum.
Personally, I don't think she is a real person - but even if she is, she is the LAST person who ever posted on YM that should be offended by ANYTHING anyone says to or about her.
I've yet to figure out why intelligent and otherwise sensible posters comment on her threads, but it's their choice.
That being said, she really is a definition of a troll, it's not a name-calling, it's simply calling her what she is
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Post by mmhmm on May 29, 2013 22:40:35 GMT -5
Everything doesn't have to happen via PM. As you can see by what I posted here, I'm a communicator, and I'll speak to the issue. What doesn't need to happen is a big bruhaha on the boards about posts being removed. We're not going to remove posts just for the heck of it. There really is method in our madness.
If it's awful, please Report it. The reason for that is two-fold. One - it gives us a copy of the post on which all the moderators can comment. It helps keep errors and too-quick actions from occurring. Two - it helps us by preventing us from having to delete not only the original unacceptable post, but umpty-nine copies of the damned thing! If you want to discuss it on the boards, and it's something that can be discussed without breaking ToS again, that's fine. Let us know when you Report it. We're glad to communicate with you but we'd like it to be done in a way that won't end us up without a board to post on.
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Post by mmhmm on May 29, 2013 22:43:33 GMT -5
Sorry, whoisjohngalt, but there are probably posters here who might say the same things about you, or me, or another poster. Ripping and tearing at another poster with denigrating words just isn't necessary, and it isn't going to fly here. Whole threads doing that are certainly not going to fly. We're not in Junior High School. We really don't need to do that, just as we don't need to call other posters "troll". That may be true as you see it, but it may not be true to all, or to the person you're proclaiming to be a "troll".
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 22:44:03 GMT -5
I didn't think anybody was reducing Doxie to a puddle. We were teasing her about her own words that she's typed here but I meant it in a fond way. If some were ugly couldn't those posts be edited or deleted without the entire thread going poof? I think Doxie would have liked it, unless she complained. Then that would make sense if her feelings were hurt. Will I get zapped for saying those who want to be a kindergarten teacher should teach kindergarten? No, there is no need to point out that we act like kindergarteners. Is she one of Dark's dress forms?!
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Post by whoisjohngalt on May 29, 2013 22:50:50 GMT -5
Sorry, whoisjohngalt, but there are probably posters here who might say the same things about you, or me, or another poster. Ripping and tearing at another poster with denigrating words just isn't necessary, and it isn't going to fly here. Whole threads doing that are certainly not going to fly. We're not in Junior High School. We really don't need to do that, just as we don't need to call other posters "troll". That may be true as you see it, but it may not be true to all, or to the person you're proclaiming to be a "troll". Let me assure you that if I was posting half of the nonsense she is posting - "I" would call myself a troll. She has less than zero respect for this forum, but hey, what does that matter, right? I think Mrs.Dinero asked a very legitimate question - but the fact that people can't take Doxie seriously - well, that's not a shocker. I didn't read the whole thread, just the first few posts and didn't see anything terrible there. I don't know if it got oh so horribly worse later on, but again, Doxie doesn't need us to do anything to her - if she ever REALLY understood her posts - she would see that she is doing it all to herself.
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Post by mmhmm on May 29, 2013 22:51:44 GMT -5
I can't tell you if someone has complained, POM. That would be violating that person's confidence, and I won't do that. Suffice it to say that a thread with "less than complimentary comments" about another poster just isn't going to be sticking around. What I think we have to realize is while we might think someone else will find our comments funny, or teasing, or to have been made fondly, the person themselves may not see it quite that way. Frankly, I'm with whoisjohngalt. If you believe another poster to be a "troll", or to be telling untruths, or to be an attention whore, irritating, and deserving of an entire thread to tell that poster so, I'd find it more productive to ignore that poster totally.
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Post by mmhmm on May 29, 2013 22:52:50 GMT -5
Then, my question would be: Why do it?
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 22:57:54 GMT -5
I don't find Doxie to be irritating at all and I think she really takes it like a champ and she even feeds it. But what do I know? I really miss MU, Tough Times, etc. I also tease Paul because he either ignores me or takes it like a man and laughs at himself. He knows what he posts sometimes is off the charts. That's why we love him! And don't get me started on our adorable Virgil. I get the mean and nasty posts getting nuked and usually can tell them from the silly teasing posts that the person would laugh at or get a kick out of. I wasn't asking you to tell me if Doxie actually complained. I was saying IF she did and her feelings were hurt then I'd get why the thread was nuked. I just don't think she would have as it wasn't mean spirited from what I read.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 22:59:05 GMT -5
Then, my question would be: Why do it? LOL! Now you are just being coy with us.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on May 29, 2013 23:01:14 GMT -5
I have no idea why anyone does anything....
Like I said, I never post on her threads and I think I replied to her posts once or twice, I don't have the patience.....which, btw has already ran out....so I am done with this thread as well.
My only point was that everything you are saying would be completely fair to any regular poster, but....and no, I am not being snarky....I just really can't imagine Doxie being described anything BUT a troll.
OK, that's it for me for any and all Doxie related threads and conversations.
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Post by mmhmm on May 29, 2013 23:04:19 GMT -5
Then, my question would be: Why do it? It's like you don't even know who we are anymore... . LOL! Oh, I know exactly who you are! You're some damned sharp folks with incisive wit, that's who you are! Some of you have had me laughing until I cried, and that's not very easy to do.
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Post by mmhmm on May 29, 2013 23:07:12 GMT -5
As I said, moonbeam has asked that we not have threads directed at one poster and containing things that could be taken as insults. Not everybody is in on the joke, folks, and it's sometimes the case that the target isn't in on the joke either. Seems to me we could, at least, honor moon's request in this area.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 23:09:06 GMT -5
I think we are since this is the first I've heard of this new rule and nobody has started a new one (thread). But it still goes on in every thread she posts on and I guess I don't see the difference.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 29, 2013 23:10:18 GMT -5
And... 11,000! ETA: LMAO!! I see you all down there trying to make me respond and ruin my really cool even number! Thank you for celebrating it with me!!
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