Posted on 07/27/2004 12:44:07 PM PDT by Jack Savage
I do. That's why I put the smiley after the "Ouch!!".
You might find this thread to be of some use. It was just posted within the hour.
One of the oldest rules of netiquette says you should lurk for a while in a group to get a feeling for the place before barging in and posting something. This thread is a perfect illustration of that I think.
You're a troll? Sure fooled us! Good job!
A vanity is a personal opinion piece or a thread which you wrote yourself. Most vanities should really be posted as replies to a specific topic and should not be a topic themselves.
Your thread didn't qualify as "breaking news" as this candidate isn't running for nationwide office and it doesn't affect the general populace.
No, you should not assume everyone hates Blomstrom. I don't hate him. I don't even know him. From what you've posted, I probably don't agree with him. But hate him, no, I don't hate him. I generally have to know someone in order to hate him.
1) this is NOT "his" chatboard. He has no say and can be ignored if you wish.
2) Most are unaware of this individual but since you are helping to remedy that its ok.
3) It is also bull that we don't care about DU. As soon as any negative story about the RATS get posted someone is gleefully reporting on the idiocy and whining it unleashes there.
4) You are doing fine ignore the busybodies. Only Jim's opinion has any weight as to what can or can't be posted.
There was nothing wrong with this posting until the busybodies got involved.
Wet cleanup on aisle 33... zot in progress.
Au contraire. The poster has been banned. Retread, perhaps?
Ummm . . . Jim Robinson himself has asked us not to post crap about DU. But I guess even some old timers haven't read the guidelines, lol!
I agree. I viewed Jack Savage as a well-intentioned newbie who got caught up in "troll paranoia". His transgressions seemed to be minimal at best and he appeared to be willing to learn. Maybe he'll lurk a bit, get up to speed on general practices here, and get reincarnated at some point in the future.
Since there are articles posted all the time I suppose the urging is as ignored as the no personal insults one.
I don't know about that but there was nothing wrong in posting this article.
The mods apparently disagreed.
Take it up with JR.
If the guy was sneaking in after having been banned that is one thing but outside of that there was nothing wrong with the post. Mods ban what they please for obscure reasons all the time but I don't really care.
Just a thought.
No, I don't think so. I do not like the tendency here to jump all over newbies no matter what they say. One of the biggest complaints I hear here about DU is its refusal to allow any dissident opinions to be posted. That is becoming the norm here too.
I am against political correctness even if it is from the Right and fear none of these posters opinions or comments.
And I still see nothing in this post that should set off alarm bells. One would think we are afraid of these opinions.
That being said I have nothing to say about those running the site and if someone has been banned and tries to sneak back in that is different than having a contrary opinion.
BTW I miss some of the old nutcases who have been banned even though I almost always disagreed with them.
I understand. This one raised mild alarms only because some of us have spent a great deal of time with trolls lately and there are subtleties in his phrasing that were ringing familiar bells. I don't know for sure, not being a mod, but I suspect we've seen him recently as someone else.
This one was actually pretty mild. I've seen a couple threads that took no prisoners.
Personally I like a good barroom, no holds barred brawl.
LOL!
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