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Policy Change for This Forum | 66 comments (66 topical, editorial)
Re: Policy Change for This Forum (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by TomW on Mon Mar 17th, 2008 at 08:29:02 PM MST
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VF;

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

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain
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Re: Policy Change for This Forum (3.00 / 0) (#10)
by Volvo farmer on Mon Mar 17th, 2008 at 11:03:00 PM MST
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Hehe, keep away from me you vampire!

3rd warning is the ticket. I cuss bad on other sites but I was asked specifically not to here so I don't. (Well, I haven't got caught since anyways) :-)

Otherwise we are in agreement. Brian, blog on your own site, Fieldlines diaries is not really the place to put your own everyday daily ramblings on the 'net. I like DanB, I like Brian, but this odd friendship has grown too far. I feel grateful to have been introduced to Brian through this site, but I feel overwhelmed by his constant off-topic presence here.

So Brian, if you're listening... With respect, take your blog/newsletter thing back into your own domain. Some of us will check in from time to time and see what you're up to.

If you get a turbine in the air or a few hundred watts of solar down your pipeline, feel free to share in your accomplishment here, where the focus is making your own electricity from scratch.

Take care

-Farmer of evergrowing Volvos

Volvo Farmer

May you always have success in your quest to irritate those who you despise. -Ben Goode
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Re: Policy Change for This Forum (3.00 / 0) (#22)
by Cloaked User on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 10:10:52 AM MST
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I agree, Tom. This "boss" appears to be just another overgrown troll. If I wanted to read such "newsletters," they are easy to find. Choking the Internets, even. They might even rival bad videos of drunken celebrities for wasted bandwidth.

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