My readings have given me enough evidence to see that at least one moderator is generally not interested in letting people move on gracefully.
He hammers.
If you are talking about me, the subject of this thread, I have been a moderator for about the last week. If not me, who are you talking about?
Thank you for participating in the forums and we hope you will take this reminder in the spirit in which it is given!
If that is what you are thinking should be told to 'offenders', it has been. It has been for at least 2 years. As we see, it doesn't work or work very well.
Users are expected to behave in a friendly manner towards others. Postings that we feel reflect badly on another user (or a class of users) are not allowed.
But they have been allowed for years and I have agreed with that instead of tight control (nukeman) of what and how people interact like many other forums where the moderators wield power based on PC standards (and their power hungry egos) instead of letting guys be guys.
IOWs I have rarely complained to 'management', but others with an agenda that is usually hidden complained about me constantly since 2002. And mainly due to my helping people (since Jan 1997) not to have to call them for service and my selling water treatment on the internet (since 2003), which they say takes food off their table, money out of their wallet etc. etc.. I've been out of business going on 6 months and as we see, they still are unhappy.
The OP in this thread threatened to get me banned here over a year ago. It could be said that I took him up on his challenge and he lost. Now he's a very sore loser, which he was a loser all along but now his ego is hurting. Below I'll paste an email from him that I received last night.
Differences of opinions are fine; post in a neutral manner without sarcastic, condescending or denigrating tones. Statements addressed to or meant for particular users are not allowed in the forums; such messages can be reformulated as neutral statements addressed to the crowd. Any statement we feel is argumentative will be deleted.
That feminizing of the American male thing was done this time last year from late spring until March this year and people were banned because they wouldn't abide by it. And IMO some mods were showing favoritism and one or two was really out to get me, but failed.
If you have a problem with another user, please be gentle in reacting.
Gentle... sounds like non confrontational fem speak to me. We are well drillers, plumbers, pump and water treatment guys, we don't stick our pinky out when sipping our imported or domestic beer or other adult beverages. When I smack my knuckles because the pipe wrench slipped again, I don't do gentle well, or especially when being attacked in a forum. I give back a bit more than I'm given. And you want me and other knuckle smashers to be gentle with our words... Although I used to, I don't post on that type forum. I was a moderator on one and wasn't strict enough and ended up banned by the admin when I refused to be a mod on another forum there; he accused me of lying, that was his excuse for banning me. That was in early 2005 after being a mod for many months, and 2 of the guys that have posted in this thread had complained about me "typing for dollars" there. Andy Christensen and Steve Silverman; a Kinetico salesman and a customer that was upset with the way I talked to him while he whined about his email address being pasted in my forum as part of a nasty email he sent me. He was going to sue me for that if I didn't delete the address or the thread and then called me to threaten to stop me from posting anywhere he could. Which he has done. He posted here yesterday, over 5 yrs later, in a very long rant and never said a word about the softener he bought from me in Jul 2004 having any problems. He's been doing the same type rant for all those years; here and on all other forums I posted in. Just a lament to get me banned or otherwise curtailed if possible. He was banned again here because of it.
Who is it supposed to help?
Here's the email. He figgered wrong, again. And I couldn't care less who Guest is, he posts just like nmhmaster, walley hayes, peter griffin, another voice, dano6401 etc. and says the same things using the same words and style. Same IP#s too. I'm thinking he's just another Steve.
On 11/21/2010 5:46 PM, don juan <djuan9976@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey genius, I figger either you or Carey deleted Justalurkers post a bit ago. I have a copy of it. I sent it to Terry's comcast mail so that you two couldn't intercept it. I have an entire copy of the thread also. You two really need to figure out who Guest is. Your first guess is way way off the mark. Look closer to home. Ask yourself why Terry hasn't deleted the entire thread yet? Getting warmer now?