To clear the record.

[unlearnthetruth]

*group hug*

i'm glad we're all on the path to recovery

[ksv]

"I banned your friends for no real reason, but I forgive you"

[Mindy]

This whole thing is amusing. I think it's rather funny that you guys all talk about forgiving Admin as if he was this evil guy. He's always run a very open and honest board, one in which you all thought was cool enough to join. Are you forgetting the point of his post? He's putting aside all the petty and stupid things we've all done and is letting it go. Things like stupid swearing and just stupid stuff in general.

Personally I think it's a mole hill, NOT a mountain! Get on with life! Enjoy the community here - this is a great group of people that are intelligent, articulate (well, some of you are!) and fun.

Again, I say "get on with life!"

[xoot]

Thank god we're back...

Thanks twyg. You are really a great friend.

Who is still staying at Macfora?

[twyg]

[ksv]

Originally posted by Mindy
This whole thing is amusing. I think it's rather funny that you guys all talk about forgiving Admin as if he was this evil guy. He's always run a very open and honest board, one in which you all thought was cool enough to join. Are you forgetting the point of his post? He's putting aside all the petty and stupid things we've all done and is letting it go. Things like stupid swearing and just stupid stuff in general.

Personally I think it's a mole hill, NOT a mountain! Get on with life! Enjoy the community here - this is a great group of people that are intelligent, articulate (well, some of you are!) and fun.

Again, I say "get on with life!"

Yes, of course, but I suppose you haven't got the whole story because of the recent censorship of all posts containing complaints or criticism of the new rules. Actually, many people were banned for questioning the new policy, and asking why threads and posts recently had been deleted.

Once I heard this, I wanted to publically criticise the recent actions, but my posts and threads where I tried to express my meanings were, of course, stopped by Ed's and AdmiralAK's moderation wall. By people I thought were reasonable enough to let me inform others, who weren't aware of this.

I ended up posting my personal view in my signature (which no one thought about moderating), and posting a couple of posts in the most active threads in an attempt to broadcast the truth.

At that time, the whole boards were not especially open and honest.

[edX]

to ksv and all - i just want to clarify that i didn't delete any of the posts that called these issues in to question. and i don't think Admiral did either. I only got a chance to moderate about 10-15 post that day. and the ones i did edit or delete were ones simply ranting. more likely to cause pain than solution.

you must trust that we, as moderators, had different avenues to deal with the issues than did general members. It would have been pointless for you not to have had some of our voices speaking for you. We were put in the uncomfortable position of choosing between two ideals. the first of the rights to freely discuss the issues. the second, the ideal of not leaving a friend who has been very good to us all just because he is troubled. We walked the middle ground as best we could.

in the end, we are working things out. and this all took place much quicker than i feared it might. No one needs to feel happy about what happened. it saddened most of us. But now we are regrouping and "moving forward". and we're openly disccussing the whole thing i might add. Tis better to air this dirty laundry than to be trapped under it's stench.

[xoot]

Twyg, can you install a client-side profanity filter?

Then there will be no problems.