Does it trump your mistakingly making fun of my job? How about trying to embarass me while you search for your life partner? How about you basically saying that liberals don't care about what happened on 9/11. Oh, if only I was a three-year old tattletale like you... Of course, I don't recall my assualt on Refman's employment status. However, I am happy that my <B>friend</B> is gainfully employed currently, even though I do miss his contributions on this board.
Open debate is what keeps this country healthy. If we don't respect (or at least acknowledge) different viewpoints, democracy fails.
I completely agree. I was just pointing out that Trader_Tattletale has a history of reporting messages to the moderators here. More than anyone else in the history of the BBS as a matter of fact.
So essentially he tattles on people he doesn't like? Am I reading that right? I'm ignorant about that -- what does posting messages to the moderators do? Don't they read these messages anyway?
He reported an asterisk masked, obcenity laced post from Achebe to the moderators. He was the ONLY one who reported it.
This is the most melodramatic post ever made in the history of message boards. see, TJ, anyone can do it
There was some other quote from Jeff about him reporting 4 posts in 48 hours or something like that also.
to be fair, i thought that post was way over the top, too. i like achebe, but it didn't surprise me when the hammer dropped.
WARNING! THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS HYPERBOLE WHICH MAY BE IN LETHAL DOSES TO CHILDREN. If you have the mind of the child, please don't read this. GV, it was reported in a thread a while back (my first if I recall) that Trader george files more complaints about other posters more than anyone else here. As I recall, he wanted my thread locked up because it offended his sensitive nature. He's a compASSionate conservative. I would not dream of complaining about the post of another unless it clearly contained materials which I knew THE SITE found objectionable - not me. But apparently Tattle Jorge is the biggest crybaby on the board. Remember the little booger-eating kid in grade school who was always telling tales about other kids to the teacher, hoping to get someone in trouble?
I agree that he went over the top, but that post did have a point and content that was separate from the vulgarity. It would have been right on if he had simply yelled the obcenities at the monitor instead of typing them.
I don't know that it's worth replaying...but the point of his post was to personally insult, with a great deal of vulgarity, those on the board who lean to the right who had not yet responded to a thread...that was it...to call them hypocrites...and worse. he called me by name..i was the only one who was called out by name. i don't see any point in that.
I don't remember the post referred to, but I read a few of Achebe's that were excessive in their use of profanity. I don't really care for it. If someone says "I'm such a dumb azz," that's cool. If someone says "you are a dumb azz" not cool. at least not to me. I don't care how many asterisks are used, if someone unleashes profanity at another poster, that's not cool, even if the target is TJ. I try to pimp him no harder than he pimps others, and to do so in a semi-humorous manner.
A little playful trash-talking is one thing, but dropping f-bombs and lobbing mean-spirited vulgarity isn't cool. For you savvy BBS vets: How many guys have been banned? Where's the line usually drawn? By the way, I'm cool with whatever guidelines/rules Clutch BBS has. This is *the* best message board I've seen, and they have every right to keep things clean. Their board, their rules.
Thread title: Unanswered Sept 11. questions I believe the debate needs to end on whether or not this is an appropriate thread. It is both timely and necessary, there is no better day to have an intelligent discussion on whether or not the current administration is withholding information or there is missing information on the 9/11 attacks from other sources. Certainly if the current administration is comfortable raising the "terror level" today then I think we should feel quite comfortable with this discussion.
