why me wrote:The old board if I remember correctly was a place where a couple or so posters were allowed to slapstick LDS posters at will. It was not a pleasant place at all. It was not self regulated unless of course it was self regulated and pleasant before my time here.
It was being self regulated. Many posters on all sides was taking efforts to bring it under control by consensus. I can still understand how someone can become so unselfcontrolled that they need to be banned. I am just not a fan of that until all avenues have been exhausted. Perhaps they were exhausted and thus the need for a change. Maybe? Maybe I have more tolerance than some or I ignore better than some.
The current atmosphere will destroy the board because very few people need such a mess in their lives. Everyone here has a life outside the internet and to come to a board that is filled with hate and threats would not be in the best interest of an individual, unless someone enjoys that atmosphere.
I don't enjoy that atmosphere, so we agree. But it is early, too early to make wholesale changes before things are given a chance to work themselves out. I will refer to your last paragraph and my response. Give things some time.
I suppose that one needs to put themselves into the mind of a lurker. What would a lurker think reading the last few threads about the people on this board? Can we use some adjectives?
Lurkers are fine but the real participants are the participants. Lurkers are lurkers and they may or may not become participants. Are we to be governed by only what lurkers are going to think of us? This is a dysfunctional family, a normal family of extreme measure but still a family of sorts. It's part of life, life is tough, so is argument, and agreement and everything that goes with it. Many will participate at different levels, others lurk and say nothing and everything again everything will balance or change, self regulate. Someone gets out of hand and someone will try to bring it back to a balance.
In regards to DCP, some terrible things have been said about him on this board and on RFM. If he would take out a lawsuit on every poster who said a vile thing about him and won, he would be a rich man. He retracted his statement in the next post. That should have sufficed.
I really am sorry that terrible things have been said about anyone if they are not true. I don't believe in suing for every little thing that happens in life either. I also don't care atbout past practices in this instance, I care about this instance, this situation. Dr. Dan was not totally innocent in this instance. Nor was he totally the blame either. He plays games, tests, poems, humor, parody, etc. like everyone else and he goes overboard too. Just like most everyone else has at times. Dan pretty much gets what he gives, just like all the rest of us.
To whom much is given, much is expected. Sorry, but more is expected by Dan than Eric. Why? Because more has been given to him. He is portrayed that way by most posters on this board (both sides), and he portrays himself that way, and his church and calling portray him that way. Dan is used to too much protection from being at MAD and runs from the heat that he participates in here and creates here. He says things here I don't think he would at MAD even with the protection.
Dan and other TBMs took after Eric in the same manner as the other side took after Josh Skains a while back. It went back and forth same as this situation. Anyone remember what was said about all that on both sides? And guess what, all that got self-regulated, too and it too came to an end.
If the moderation was on the ball, his statement would have been deleted pronto. Instead it was allowed to sit there on the thread. It should have least have been red lettered. It all just got out of hand...but I do believe that it is all winding down now. Maybe, things will get back to normal.
Don't blame moderation on all this, if you want moderation and censorship go back to MAD and stay there. And now after all your hot air about moderation you state "it is all winding down now", isn't that a process of self regulation in action? Maybe giving things a little time before everyone jumps through their o-rings is a prudent thing to do.
What the hell is "normal"?
