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Re: removal of posts  [message #37993 is a reply to message #37989] Mon, 30 October 2006 17:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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Regrettably, repeating it does not make it true. No-one has won anything here. There was nothing to win.



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This is absurd.  [message #37996 is a reply to message #37898] Mon, 30 October 2006 17:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ProfZodiac is currently offline  ProfZodiac

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I don't know who's been the most supercilious in this thread thus far, but it's a startling display.

Timmy, you are the proprietor here, your word is effectively commandment. If someone doesn't like it, tough shit. There are other fora on which they can post, but this one has, in my experience, been very lenient and willing to ignore idiosyncrasy for content. As far as I can tell, it's been for the better, if occasionally aggravating. You're not instituting totalitarian policies, you've been very hands-off. I appreciate your wanting to foster discussion about the decision to delete a post, but if it's as simple as "it wasn't appropriate", just say that much and move on; this isn't getting us anywhere.

Marc, get off the cross. If you said something Timmy found inappropriate, deal with it. The way this thread has gone, you're coming across as petulant and with a false indignation approaching martyrdom. In my limited time here, you've been one of the more cogent, if contrarian, posters. What exactly is an internet dick-measuring contest going to accomplish in the long run?

Can we please get back to two-post "look at me" threads with original poetry?
Re: removal of posts  [message #37998 is a reply to message #37993] Mon, 30 October 2006 18:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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Well, I feel as if I lost the ability and/or option to make my point....

You mandated that I take my point to a place where it could be conviently ignored....

Therefore, by my reconing I lost... You won...



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Re: removal of posts  [message #37999 is a reply to message #37998] Mon, 30 October 2006 18:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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I asked you to make a new thread for it. If you think it will be ignored thaen it is probably worth rethinking it.



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Re: removal of posts  [message #38001 is a reply to message #37999] Mon, 30 October 2006 18:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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Thus your win........



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Re: removal of posts  [message #38005 is a reply to message #38001] Mon, 30 October 2006 18:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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There is a logical disconnect here. If you can't write something that people will not ignore then it is probably not worth writing.

That does not mean I win.

All it means is that the topic you want to write about is one that people will ignore.

But you can't know that until you do it.



Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
Re: removal of posts  [message #38008 is a reply to message #38005] Mon, 30 October 2006 18:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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And what is the point of posting when I already know it will be ignored...

No... I will continue posting where I see the need... Just like everyone else...

Unless of course you mandate otherwise...



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Re: removal of posts  [message #38010 is a reply to message #38008] Mon, 30 October 2006 19:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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Mandate? No. I asked several times though.



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Re: removal of posts  [message #38013 is a reply to message #38010] Mon, 30 October 2006 20:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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If you insist....



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Re: If you have a problem  [message #38026 is a reply to message #37992] Mon, 30 October 2006 22:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
thirdfencepost is currently offline  thirdfencepost

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Well maybe thats the problem and you SHOULD find someone who isn't here to talk to!



Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
Re: removal of posts  [message #38040 is a reply to message #38008] Tue, 31 October 2006 00:05 Go to previous message
Nigel is currently offline  Nigel

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Marc said
>And what is the point of posting when I already know it will be ignored...<

Just look back when you have time and count how many posts (of anybody) have been ignored, ie had no reply. You will find it difficult to discover (m)any.

Hugs
N

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