I'm just catching up on this whole "words hurt" conversation. Some of you are ridiculous. If you can't stand the heat, then use the ignore feature instead of whining like a bunch of women.
And I'd also like to point out this wasn't an issue until a couple of visitors showed up. Even people like
@gunslingerdick and
@Heels Noir could go back and forth without people getting in their feelings.
Boom. Nailed it.
For those that need the backstory, here you go:
This board was once moderated like all the other forums. Billy went off the deep end for whatever reason and started spamming the board with anti-Trump stuff. I don't believe anyone complained to the mods but even if they did, it was a moderated board at that time.
@tarheel0910 can give the details on why Billy ultimately did himself in. I don't know. But at that point,
@andrew jones and
@heelbent came to us and gave us the choice of basically shutting the board down or allowing the Lord Of The Flies environment it is today. We all chose the latter. Andrew and Heelbent made it clear the board would not be moderated. By this point, this board really only consisted of 20-25 regular poasters. And while we don't all agree on much, we all agreed that we were fine being unmoderated here. I think the good majority of us that were in on that decision have stayed around since which is evidence that we were happy to be left alone and allowed to run the board as we see fit.
Then
@Newoikkin shows up, rocks the boat because his little feelings were hurt and here we are, with even the most ardent
@gunslingerdick haters taking the side of telling him to STFU or leave. It looks like this did not work out the way he thought it was going to.
Andrew doesn't want to be bothered by this board that has so few regular poasters. For years he was going unbothered. The noob, instead of trying to earn his stripes on the board and assimilate to our culture, comes in and tries to tell us how we need to be. That's not how it works.
But through my discussion with Andrew yesterday, I know he will shut this board down if people keep making a stink. So if you come to log on one day and you can't, you'll know who to thank for that. And it certainly won't be me who has been the same guy here for the last 2 decades.