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To: Dog Gone
Case in point. Take a look at the thread in this post linked above. Click on some of the names. How many have been banned? How many haven't posted in forever? Yet, according to you, this argument will cause people to leave FR? Whatever. They come, they go... only JimRob is eternal (or close enough)...
410 posted on 04/01/2005 5:08:24 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
Well, two long-time posters who I think have earned the respect of most of the people here, whether or not they were in agreement with them all of the time, have left tonight.

So, my comment seems to be reasonably accurate so far. I hope they are the only two, but it's really not disputable that the ugliness that has pervaded FR in recent weeks was the reason.

FR will survive, I think. We'll see how the fundraiser does, and I'm still a member of the dollar a day club. I'm hopeful the forum will return to normal. If it remains a hostile environment, I'll reconsider that.

And let me make one further point. I didn't take much abuse on the Terri threads. Way more than I liked, but not much compared to others. Maybe it's because I made it clear that I thought it was wrong without any new tests. Maybe it's because my comments were more of a legal nature. So, this isn't about me. It's about what I saw on those threads. We were eating our own.

438 posted on 04/01/2005 5:52:13 PM PST by Dog Gone
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