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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Susie on July 31, 2009, 12:44:52 pm ---boy do I know how that feels .... I'm as stuborn as a mule sometimes .... if I'm upset about something then I can't let it lie.:-\
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Moreover, if someone seems to be responding directly to something that I wrote, I'm afraid I'm being rude if I don't at least acknowledge the response--with another post. :-\
Kelda:
--- Quote from: Susie on July 31, 2009, 12:44:52 pm ---boy do I know how that feels .... I'm as stuborn as a mule sometimes .... if I'm upset about something then I can't let it lie.:-\
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Me too! See Shasta - you're not the only one that feels that way, I ahave been know to et things go but I'm not so good at it as Kerry is!
And Shasta can I just say, you're a bright spot for me at Bettermost. :-*
Shasta542:
--- Quote from: Kelda on July 31, 2009, 02:40:29 pm ---#
Me too! See Shasta - you're not the only one that feels that way, I ahave been know to et things go but I'm not so good at it as Kerry is!
And Shasta can I just say, you're a bright spot for me at Bettermost. :-*
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Thank you, Kelda. :-* Same here! You are very good at trying your best to look at both sides. You have been that way ever since I've been here. I appreciate that. I'm sure many people do.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Shasta542 on July 30, 2009, 09:20:34 am ---I know. It's much better when everybody agrees with everything, isn't it? Utopia.
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UTOPIA
The word comes from Greek: οὐ, "not", and τόπος, "place".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
I guess Utopia is no place at all, and resides entirely inside the imaginations of those attempting to create it.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 30, 2009, 02:22:08 pm ---I can understand your dilemma, Shasta. But how else could it work? You tend to be politically conservative, and you're on a site where the majority of members tend to be politically liberal (note: there are of course varying degrees, exceptions, overlap, etc.). If you want to express a view that's different from the OP's, most likely others will want to express a view that is different from yours. But it needn't get hostile or insulting.
I welcome a diversity of opinions here, as long as people express them respectfully. I've been really pleased with the tone here over the past few weeks, and would be happy if people with minority viewpoints would jump in and discuss them while maintaining that friendly atmosphere.
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Hi Crayons! :)
As usual what you have said is mostly true. I agree the political mean of frequently posting Bettermostians is far left of center, and moving further to left since many conservatives spend more time off site than before. And the problem really isn't those gang attacks on conservatives, that resembled poor Tippy Hedren being pecked to death by all those Ravens and Gulls in Hitchcock's masterpiece "The Birds".
No, that wasn't the basic underlying problem that developed on Bettermost about a year ago. The problem, IMO, is the censorship that resulted from the "New Civility". I remember the days when Phillip's bottom line rule was NO DIRECT PERSONAL ATTACKS. PERIOD, END OF STORY. But, as the mods got a whip hand because of the new civility, the whiners and complainers started their whining and complaining and the censoring started.
Nothing harms a social networking opinion site more successfully than censorship. Without the censorship there would be no "Retreat", so in a sense, the mods and the whiners created the "Retreat". Thanks, we are very pleased with Jess's handiwork. :)
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