Bond...James Bond wrote:This thread just closed. The wrap of the thread was that as follows:
DonBradley got a three day suspension:
Have a nice three day suspension and come back. --Chaos
Hammer got a suspension, a posting limit, and his last warning:
Hammer you are on the top ten list of problem posters. You will be taking another break from the board. You are suspended and it has to be your second or third time. You will be coming back at no more than ten posts per day and next time you will be banned. --Chaos
Threads of this nature will continue to be problematic for MAD until they realize that it's possible to have a decent conversation about Joseph's implementation of polygamy without all the angst that the TBM's bring to the table. If they keep going, pretty soon they'll be down to only a handful of posters and it will look like a deserted ZLMB.
The nature of healthy discussion includes the uncomfortable. I understand the trauma that can happen to a testimony that is unprepared to read about Joseph's manipulations, his lies, his deceit, his secrecy with those who agreed to his demands and his public whispering campaign against those women who rejected him. His ego was as fragile as an eggshell, and he didn't deal with rejection well when it was on a personal level. This phenomena got worse as he got older, and if a TBM is so fragile that they are unable to deal with this sort of information coming out, then the result is wholesale suspensions and banning posters in order to keep it all under wraps.
If Don is smart, he'll dust MAD off his shoes, turn his back, and walk away.
Maybe we'll be lucky, and Hammer will show up here. Wouldn't that be a hoot?