Personal opinion follows...

I think this being his at least 3rd warning on language that that is the  major part of it. The "newsletters" are another part of it because they have little to do with furthering RE and mostly looks like shock value "look at me" stuff from here. I stopped WDYASQ from posting similar political Diary entries and he is a real world personal friend so it is NOT like I am picking on Brian.

There have been backchannel complaints from the beginning about these newsletters that are just now starting to surface in public.

There is really no good reason for them to be here at all. It is the wrong place. Period. I actually tend to agree with him more than not but thats not the point.

Even got folks who normally disagree with me with the same opinion. Go figure.

Doesn't matter much what I think. I am working under unfair guidelines on an uneven playing field. I don't have energy to swim upstream on these things so I guess the users need to step up and I think they have.

Any more and I will get into a rant and nobody wants to hear my "non PC" opinion because someones poor feelings will be damaged.

Bottom line is we are on a downward spiral due to our popularity and this BS over being "PC" is really making it hard to keep the forum useful.

OK, I give up. give it to the foul mouthed louts if you want, but cursing is just a sign of a lack of vocabulary and has no place in this forum. Neither does politics, even [especially?] if I agree.  

I have drawn the line where I honestly think it should be. Honesty seems to be non PC today but I don't give a Hoover Dam.

Thanks for the feedback.  

We can always use help, so if you want to be infected as an editor, I can make it so. It is a bit like vampires that way. It takes one to make one ...

OK, here is where I sign off and the misunderstanding of my post begins...

TomW

I have contributed in support of, and giving my advice to, the poster on a previous occasion. This is not personal. My point is that the "myspace" use of the fieldlines resource is something I find just plain wrong. This is why I placed my posting in the rants section. Would an outside link to the same information have been all that hard to do?

The whole world is going to perdition in a wicker basket. Do we need to be reminded so vividly? The reasons are diverse and vast. If there were a simple solution I'm sure someone far more intelligent than I would have acted upon this information already.

This entire position is just a voicing of opinion, and I am attempting to do so with a fair approach and some form of class.