01-18-2009, 11:16 AM
Let me chime in here and let me start off by addressing the issue of "rights" while on this website. There is no "freedom of speech" or "equal rights" here. Everyone is afforded the rights, including the great power and great responsibility, that I provide them with, or allow them to have. When you look up and see "www.tmrzoo.com" on your browser, I am your daddy. Fortunately, I have a very liberal perspective on this website, and life in general, and I feel that as long as nobody is breaking the law, do as you will to have fun. I have had a great time on here, and I hope everyone else has as well. In that regard, I guess I am like the mom of a big family... I want everyone to be happy. Unfortunately, that sometimes cannot be accomplished and someone will get upset... so you try to achieve the greater good even though someone will be pissed or get hurt by it.
My goal, and the goal of the team here is to expand this community. Usually, guys find their way to the site here through an article, and we hope they click around, browse the forums, and stay awhile. If they come across something... like a shirtless dude or excessive bunnies and kitties, they will most likely close their browser and never come back. I probably would do that myself. So if a mod feels that there is something posted in here that is severely counterproductive to our goal, I support their decision. Again, I still feel we are very liberal in our practices here.
Let me expand on the "freedoms" that you do have here, Chocklit... ones that you most likely are unaware of. We have lost members, and even moderators, over some of your posts. And when I say lost, I mean left and never come back, or even quit as staff members. You may not have even known it, but you were banned for a very short period of time because a mod would get angry daily over your posts. I have always taken your side and disagreed with the ban, even when I have been put in a "her or me" situation. I have stuck to my "good of the people" guns and let one of my staffmembers, my friend, walk away and we have not communicated since.
What have you done to evoke such rage? You are constantly taking shots at the American military and belittling what they do for my country. You probably don't even know it but we have, or a should say had, several former servicemen on the staff here. These guys were in trenches getting shot at at the same age a candy-ass like myself had such stressful battles over which scholarship to college I should accept and which side of the dorm room I wanted to sleep on. And when I say trenches, I don't mean piles of soiled diapers and dirty dishes either. These guys saw their friends' guts spill out and die right in front of them... shit you and I can't even fathom and only see in movies. So when you use a picture of the burning Trade Center Towers on 9/11 as a punchline of a joke, or show sympathy for a kid who impersonates someone in the military, these guys are going to get strongly offended. You were even asked politely to show some class and remove the 9/11 picture and you sternly refused, but everyone still let your post stay the way it was.
I have lost members, staff and friends defending your right to post whatever you want in here, so in hindsight, taking a pic of a shirtless dude or a kitty cat down doesn't seem so bad, does it? Or do you still not get it?
My goal, and the goal of the team here is to expand this community. Usually, guys find their way to the site here through an article, and we hope they click around, browse the forums, and stay awhile. If they come across something... like a shirtless dude or excessive bunnies and kitties, they will most likely close their browser and never come back. I probably would do that myself. So if a mod feels that there is something posted in here that is severely counterproductive to our goal, I support their decision. Again, I still feel we are very liberal in our practices here.
Let me expand on the "freedoms" that you do have here, Chocklit... ones that you most likely are unaware of. We have lost members, and even moderators, over some of your posts. And when I say lost, I mean left and never come back, or even quit as staff members. You may not have even known it, but you were banned for a very short period of time because a mod would get angry daily over your posts. I have always taken your side and disagreed with the ban, even when I have been put in a "her or me" situation. I have stuck to my "good of the people" guns and let one of my staffmembers, my friend, walk away and we have not communicated since.
What have you done to evoke such rage? You are constantly taking shots at the American military and belittling what they do for my country. You probably don't even know it but we have, or a should say had, several former servicemen on the staff here. These guys were in trenches getting shot at at the same age a candy-ass like myself had such stressful battles over which scholarship to college I should accept and which side of the dorm room I wanted to sleep on. And when I say trenches, I don't mean piles of soiled diapers and dirty dishes either. These guys saw their friends' guts spill out and die right in front of them... shit you and I can't even fathom and only see in movies. So when you use a picture of the burning Trade Center Towers on 9/11 as a punchline of a joke, or show sympathy for a kid who impersonates someone in the military, these guys are going to get strongly offended. You were even asked politely to show some class and remove the 9/11 picture and you sternly refused, but everyone still let your post stay the way it was.
I have lost members, staff and friends defending your right to post whatever you want in here, so in hindsight, taking a pic of a shirtless dude or a kitty cat down doesn't seem so bad, does it? Or do you still not get it?