Posted on 06/01/2005 8:07:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I wonder if WillPit will become the recondite pharnyx of the Andyscam scandal.
Pharynx that is.
LMAO! Thought it was real for a second!
LOL! Got me too!
mark this one
Anyone smell a little whiff of arrogance?
This was posted on the door of the locked AndyScam thread by the Mod that brought it all to a close.
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Picking the lock to add a closing thought or three...
Just about a month ago, the Andy story broke on CU, BIGTIME. Suddenly this forum was flooded with threads on the subject. Members were starting a new thread, every time a new post was made on DU.
Andy fever spread throughout B/W, in GD, and even into the freaking lounge. It got out of control so i told the rest of the mods to ship all Andy threads here to Best/Worst.
Eventually they because too cumbersome, even for the Best/Worst denizens to bear. Many of our regulars were complaining and asking that the subject be banned but I was also aware that many other people were coming here for info.
I hold two quotes on freedom of speech close to my heart. One is in my sig:
"I do not agree with what you have to
say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire ...
The other is also important:
"If there is a dividing line between liberty and license, it is where freedom of speech is no longer respected as a procedure of the truth and becomes the unrestricted right to exploit the ignorance, and to excite the passions, of the people. Then freedom is such a hullabaloo of sophistry, propaganda, special pleading, lobbying, and salesmanship that it is difficult to remember why freedom of speech is worth the pain and trouble of defending it. "
Walter Lippmann
These were the inspiration for my decision to host two threads in the issue and since i am mod in both B/W and Thunderdome, I decided to have two threads. One, here, kept as distilled as possible and the other in the Dome to allow the total freedom of speech that CU holds so dear to it's heart.
If you read through the earlier threads and the Dome thread, and compare them to part 1 and 2 of this thread, I think you will see the logic in that decision. I thought that giving two choices on how members could participate would work and allow the needs of both the info seekers and the flamers to be met. I was wrong. Some people could either not grasp the concept of civility or just plain wanted to be a pain in the ass.
Second, until the decision to shut this down some 10 hrs early, I received no orders regarding any of my decisions from the owner or administrator of this forum. Anyone who is trying to say this was basically anything other than my decision to start it and my decision to end it is lying. This is not CU's management running scared. This is CU's members and especially me, having enough of it. I know there are some of you who will say that no one had to click on the threads but honestly, these threads were sucking the oxygen out of CU and replacing it with methane. How long can you tolerate an elephant crapping in your living room?
Last, i'd like to thank the many people who got it and participated in these dedicated threads without causing problems. The civility and co-operation i received from many people on both sides was greatly appreciated. I'm sorry that the actions of a few have impacted the freedom of the many but isn't that usually how it goes?
I also need to thank Rob, Gator and the mods for their tolerance for my position on letting this roll as long as i have. A special thank you to Pya, my co mod here and DH, Supermod and my co-mod in the Dome and Supermod Daveman for taking up the slack for me as i focused on this issue and for covering for me when i needed to be away.
To the no0bs who were attracted to CU by this issue.
We do hope you stick around long enough to get the flavor of what CU is normally like. Without the elephant in the living room, i think you will notice an especially interesting smell of the air around here...sometimes giddy with laughter, heavy with thought or tinged with the smoke of flames.
it's the smell of freedom.
PS. I have been informed that the Andy investigators are setting up a board. When they do, I have asked that they send me the url of their site. if they do, i will announce it in a thread and sticky it in this forum.
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Umm, trust me, it isn't all because of the Andy thread. Suffice to say, this is a normal state of mind. Like I said, you are either a part of the clique or you aren't. Andy or not, that's the way things are.
Well I've been signed up on FR for a while and a while before it as glory. I just signed up with what happened to pop in my head.
I won't send you to your corner, I find dancing dinosaurs just as cutsie;-)
LMAO--you have to know, I'm finding this kind of funny because I've had the name at fr for a while and this is the first time SEVERAL people have said anything about it. LOL Seriously, there is nothing behind it. I was probably baking them for the kids at the time I signed up or something. Maybe I should have JimRob reincarnate GLORY.
I wish I worked with people who exercised such restraint. Well, most do but there are two who like to start things up. I can keep quiet for awhile, but eventually they can goad me into a response. Last time I told him to stop the political talk - it was impacting patient care. 30 minutes later he was off of politics and onto why he believes science and is therefore an athiest. So in one day he argued both politics and religion.
Nah, the apple in Eden was far more attractive and offered far more wisdom;-)But,like CU, once you bite the apple, you realize what a bum deal you got.
Now do the same with the check below. You will see the *** asterisks end in a totally different place.
2. Look at the beinning letter "M" in May. It is typed a little higher after the colon. The 2nd check, it starts a little lower than the colon.
3. Look at the word "Eighteen". The top check appears to have the word typed in above the line. Now the check below, the word "Eighteen" is typed pretty much on the line.
Two checks, typed at different times but giving the impression that it's one in the same.
"If I've missed the memo in which we're supposed to post false info, someone please let me know."
I don't believe this is posting false information. Maybe an eye exam is in your future?
"...to allow the total freedom of speech that CU holds so dear to it's heart."
Hah hah!
LOCK!
BAN!
DELETE!
No, I'm not. I was just teasing. It's staying put.
Good Mornin ....
"I was born a poor black child. I remember the days sitting on the porch with my family singing and dancing, down in Mississippi. "
Funniest movie ever made!
Good Morning to you Ree.....hope you slept well ;-)
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