On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:14:30 GMT, avoice <my@soapbox.org> wrote:
>BoyFuzz <boyfuzz@boyfuzz> wrote in
>news:mba3s49kahn37n4md3hkm4ku4pi2g807j8@4ax.com:
>
>>>I for one enjoy ALL you have posted here! If you do leave please
>>>please please give a HINT as to where you may be off to- PLEASE PLEASE
>>>PLEASE don't disappear on us! As you know there are MANY silent
>>>lurkers here as within any group! Thanks avoice!
>>
>>>(And if you do decide to disappear- which is understandable because of
>>>a few complainers (aka assholes) here- please reconsider!! But anyway
>>>THANKS for what you have contributed to this group so far!) ---BoyFuzz
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>>My quiet suggestion for this group is to maintain the middle standard:
>>> nudity is okay, pornography is not. This apparently makes me an
>>>"asshole" in the eyes of distinguished community members like BoyFuzz
>>>whose contributions are ... well, I'm not sure, but flaming posters is
>>>certainly a really smart and helpful place to start.
>>
>>
>>>I'm going to post a suggested tiny FAQ. It's not up to me what other
>>>people want. This group, like any group, belongs to the users. So
>>>you guys can decide.
>>
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>>
>> First off- I am sorry to have called you an "asshole" if you have been
>> a regular poster here or anywhere else! (Thanks for your posts!)
>> Second- I didn't mean to "flame" any poster! So please accept my
>> appology! Third, when I said "complainers (aka assholes)" I meant the
>> t-r-o-l-l-s! We all know that t-r-o-l-l-s are the worst thing that
>> can happen to ANY group and when t-r-o-l-l-s first start their little
>> war, they start by "complaining" and then they try to get everyone
>> else in that group to turn against one another- especially if that
>> group is strong (or growing strong) but especially if that group is at
>> "peace" and the posting continues- that's when they strike the hardest
>> because they can't stand a "successful group!"
>>
>> So when you have a group where a few posters are posting whatever they
>> choose to post and then you get nothing but complaints from "regular
>> people" (some disguised as t-r-o-l-l-s) the posters tend to disappear
>> one by one- and then everyone else (lurkers) simply stare at an empty
>> group day after day and wonder "where have all the posters gone?"
>>
>> (And I am NOT saying that every person who makes a complaint is a
>> t-r-o-l-l so don't flame me for that! But how many t-r-o-l-l-s start
>> out by making complaints?)
>>
>> One good example of this happened awhile back in another group- a
>> "good guy" came in and started to post all kinds of stuff- but then he
>> started to complain about everything and then demanded the PWs for
>> other posts and the names of other groups and started leaving his
>> posts "half finished." He basically turned into an "asshole" almost
>> overnight. No dought he was indeed a t-r-o-l-l! You may be familiar
>> with this guy? Does the name "hippo" ring a bell?
>>
>> Anyway, all I am saying here is let the posters post whatever they
>> want- we should all be grateful that they are posting in the first
>> place! If others don't like what they post then simply leave! I mean
>> if you stumble into a group where the only postings you see are of
>> flowers and shrubs and the discussions are all about gardening and
>> being a "green thumb" (and you HATE gardening) what can you do? One,
>> you can start complaining to all the posters about why they are
>> posting gardening "crap" instead of what YOU want posted. (As if they
>> would care anyway.) Two, you can set up a list of rules for the group
>> (aka FAQ) and hope everyone there will listen and follow what you ask
>> for. Or three, you can leave the group and move on to another.
>>
>> (There are so many groups out there that have content that I don't
>> like so I simply leave! It's that simple! Why start a war?)
>>
>> That's all I am saying here- there are so many complainers out there
>> that force good posters to move somewhere else- are they really
>> complainers or do they have a "hidden agenda" to disrupt the group?
>> (aka t-r-o-l-l-s?) And sometimes we are lucky enough to find where
>> the posters went and other times we never seem to find them. Some
>> posters then start to PW their posts (because of the "complainers") so
>> their posts are as good as nothing to most people.
>>
>> Hope this makes sense- and again I am sorry if I offended you or any
>> other poster in my previous reply- I was just trying to make a point:
>> leave the posters alone! Peace! ---BoyFuzz
>>
>>
>>
>
>Hi BoyFuzz,
>
>Very well said.
>
>--avoice
Well someone HAD to say it! --BoyFuzz
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