ETA: Listen to your friends, and take your own advice.
Dr Scratch,
As the sanctity of the privacy of "private messages" (PMs) is of concern to everyone here that uses that function of MDB, could you please explain the details of the breach of your PM box by a mod has been? and how you detected the breach?
Liz wrote:I did NOT go into PM's, or yours, and read them. I do not HAVE that ability..and even if I did, that is something I would NEVER do. That was actually done to me when I was a poster at FAIR/MAD. I know how it feels to have that happen.
According to Liz, she does not have the capability as a Moderator to read PMs.
Interesting. Liz?
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stemelbow wrote: Oh beastie. I'm sure you're a sweet lady, but why can't you let it go? I mean I think I get why some others, but why not you? Who cares? Look, DCP commented on Scratch's sig a month after it was up. DCP said he learned about the sig from Will, not from reading here. If your antagonistic bias against DCP is to be taken seriously, then the commenting and wondering about Scratch's sig would have been a month earlier than it was. But it was not. Your whole theory and decision to assume some Mormon is lying goes down the tubes.
You just don't know what you're talking about. In the past, when DCP declared he was quitting this board, he still read it regularly. How do I know? Because he was PMing certain posters about what was going on.
This has nothing to do with DCP being Mormon or not. He has a very long history of not being able to leave this board alone.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
moksha wrote: Ceeboo, what course of action would you take upon learning of an incredibly nasty thing that one poster decided to say to another poster via PM? Do you think that the normative censure by members would be less effective than allowing such actions to go unchecked?
My concern would be that abusive behavior via PMs be stopped in its tracks and I would rather see my fellow board members chime in that such abuse is unacceptable, than to have Droopy show up with an assault weapon and set things to right.
I am also saddened to see people turn on one another. Our common humanity is more important than any petty bickering. Thanks for listening.
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Although I am not comfortable (and thus will not) discuss the contents of a PM that was posted on the public board (Please consider how dangerous that migh be to all if we were to consider traveling down that road). I will simply say that it is my opinion that the gross wrong was and indeed remains, without question or exception, with the MDB poster that decided to post PM content on the board. Period. End of story in my view.
I would be most happy and gracious to allow you to disagree with me.
stemelbow wrote: Oh beastie. I'm sure you're a sweet lady, but why can't you let it go? I mean I think I get why some others, but why not you? Who cares? Look, DCP commented on Scratch's sig a month after it was up. DCP said he learned about the sig from Will, not from reading here. If your antagonistic bias against DCP is to be taken seriously, then the commenting and wondering about Scratch's sig would have been a month earlier than it was. But it was not. Your whole theory and decision to assume some Mormon is lying goes down the tubes.
You just don't know what you're talking about. In the past, when DCP declared he was quitting this board, he still read it regularly. How do I know? Because he was PMing certain posters about what was going on.
This has nothing to do with DCP being Mormon or not. He has a very long history of not being able to leave this board alone.
Hello Professor Peterson. You should really be editing an Arabic text for your series instead of reading this. Go on ... you know you'll enjoy it once you get started.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Chap wrote:Hello Professor Peterson. You should really be editing an Arabic text for your series instead of reading this. Go on ... you know you'll enjoy it once you get started.
For some reason, I initially read this as, "You should really be editing your Acerbic text for your series..."
I wonder what could possibly explain that...
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.