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"You really do need to clean up your own act and stop worrying about other folks so much."

I haven't allowed myself to be "baited" into a flame war since the Lead Moderator made that request of us all.

I'm not going to allow you "bait" me into a flame war this time, either.

You should be apologizing to the other FReepers you personally attacked on this thread instead of making further attempts to antagonize others and instigate another flame war.

FR could maybe start a '12 step' program for all of you flame warriors that seem to be unable to just go 'cold turkey'.

It might be good for your mental health to begin your every FReeping session with words like,

"Hello, my name is CWOJackson and I am an incorrigible flame warrior, whose motives are absolutely transparent to everyone on the other side of all of my issues, and boy do I have issues.

LOL!

The other day, I went through one of these threads. It was a day later than the last time I had gone through most of them. Someone had griped that some people had gotten out of hand on a thread and I had done nothing.

And this is not the thread I ended up posting to CWO to back off.

On the thread I am talking about, I saw someone get extremely nasty with CWO out of the blue. Probably due to some old spat.

Instead of responding in kind, CWO just said "Nah, not a party thing but rather" and made his point. The other guy replied "OK, peace on that. I agree."

I am not going to say that CWO doesn't mix it up, but good. And I am not going to say he doesn't start it sometimes. But what I will say is that when asked to back off, he does and I will also say that when he does get into it, he never complains, even when his stuff gets pulled and the other's don't. And he does not always return fire.

Now that I have gotten the platitudes out of the way, CWO, you do know that you do enjoy mixing it up rougher than most. And what ends up happening is that you may understand or know who you can do that with, but others see it and do it and do it to people they don't know if they want to debate that way or not, and then we get hit with "but he does it" and "you let him get away with it but not us". And sometimes you do get into it with someone who complains. You do make our jobs harder. It would be better for us and probably for the forum if the times you held back, like you did when Burkeman1 was flaming you, were more often and the times where you respond in kind (or throw the first blow) were less.

And it would be better for me if I didn't keep getting called back to micromanage things. I tried for a day or two to kind of set expectations for what I think would work to get things under control in the forum. I think there has been great improvement overall. Now let's do a little more self policing and less scorekeeping and get back to good debate.

Thanks, LM