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Since you are the Omnipotent God of locking threads of this Board, I am sure my request will be served quickly
It has. Thank you for playing. :roll:
FYI, had you opted to send me a PM, as has been explained in the past, we could have had a reasonable discussion about things and come to a suitable agreement. But, since you choose to follow the path of doing whatever possible to disrupt the board, you can join the 2 or 3 others that are no longer here either.
And as I know you're still reading the board (none of you can stay away and IP's are a great equalizer), I'll clue you in on a little secret. I have grown weary of the incredible immaturity that has been shown by a few posters of late and have tendered my resignation to the powers that be. As moderators, we make no apologies for the job we've done. We've been doing it for 5 years and nothing has changed in the way we handle issues. However, my thought process was that whatever is best for the board and if the powers that be think a new direction is the way to do, then I will graciously and happily step down.
Yet, I have been asked to stay and the moderating team has been given a vote of confidence. Support for the job we are trying to do is running overwhelmingly in our favor and against the couple of complaints from the trouble-makers and their multiple login ID's.
So, for the time being, we're still the moderators and we are continuing to do the job we have been asked to do. Whether any or all of us decided to leave in the future, remains to be seen. But that being said, we're not stupid. We are fully aware of the attempts being made to get other members of the community banned. Those members that have not been banned, understand that we're not here to change anyone diapers.
The bottom line is simple. If you can't handle a verbally pointed discussion with another member, then bow out of the discussion and ignore your detractors. If you ignore them, they will have no reason to debate you. If you continue to banter back and forth, you'll do so of your own accord. We have only had to break out the bans for members that thought they could circumvent the rules and make problems for ClassA. Arguing amongst each other does not make problems for the board...publically disagreeing with the management and trying to foment discord, does.
Let me put it to you in a way that might be a little easier for you to understand. If you're in third grade and you and another student get into a shouting match with each other at recess, you might be told by your teacher to knock it off if you can't work it out. If you chose at that time to shout at the teacher and cause a scene, you're going to be sitting in the time-out corner with a DUNCE cap on your head while the student you were arguing with is going to go back to recess.
That's as plain as I can put it. We're not here to be anybody's friends. We're here to maintain the board integrity to the best of our ability. You don't have to agree with the moderator's decisions all the time, but they are moderator decisions. In the end, we are accountable to those that own the board, not to you.
