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what to do? get more black and white with what is allowable or not.

#1 id prefer no holds barred, but that's just be me.
#2 but if you can't do no holds barred, disallow all forms of insults and the little creative jabs that circumvent the rules.
#3 just because you are personally sick of hearing a word,instance or name, don't ban it's use as when folks talk of "the poster who won't be named" we all know who is being spoken of. and in my opinion the avoidance of being able to reference particular items is just childish. i get this image of me saying "phantomuk" and others covering their ears screaming..lalalalalala.
#4 dont set yourself up to be "babysitter" or "king of all" by ripping on behavior or scolding. if you truly don't care what a poster thinks...just take care of business and ban where ya think is necessary. talking down to people about what you percieve as their percieved behavior issues puts you in a seemingly dictatorial position that can and will stifle honest debate.
#5 dont encourage whining to the feedback forum as has been done. my purpose for bringing up the whole apology thread thing was to show a pattern of squeaky wheels getting grease. my whole purpose for getting al offensive to ranka was to expose the natural hypocrasy of "underhanded goading" as opposed to just out and out honestly stating feelings on a subject. if you look back at that (turkey)thread....things were moving along famously prior to that.
#6 black or white....no in between will give you less of an image of taking sides by either side. ill ask you to recall what y'all were accused of just prior to the banning of phantom. you were accused of one sided slant, while others on the opposite side of the coin view a one sided slant as well going the opposite direction.

as for other boards....well i've liked fmb because one can say...you are a so n so. and the reply to that can be to ignore it or to say...you are a such n such. ok now that slam was retaliated against...now move on. people at fmb when they go too far are policed by each other.....if someone says "asians are cruel and heinous" the bigotry of that statement is called out without hesitation. you may only see the sillyness of the boob topics when visiting there...but there is alot of discussion that goes on there. other boards that have "up for grabs rules" all appear to be slanted. another board i go to on the other hand does not allow any type of slamming or slander at all period.....none...nada. it works ok....there is really not alot of debate there except just a few issues here n there.

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

i think by allowing that.....as a mod you set yourself up to which side gets their similar dig reprimanded as it spirals out of control. i realize you dont care what others think about you personally, but you do josh's board a disservice by allowing yourself to look as though you sway...which will inevitably happen by swaying toward either who you like or overcompensating and swaying to the side you oppose.

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

but regardless you begin to get into judgement calls. you know like interpretting the meaning of the word "coon"...(and no this is not a stab at anyone...its an observation on judgement calls).....or how anyone takes the so called "witticism".

as well the over use of the eye rolling emoticon gets to be kind of redundant as well, as folks use that as a statement of..."oh god, here's another moronic comment from you i need to be sarcastic about". the perfect example of passive aggressive communication.

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

dont get me wrong, i could really care less how y'all run your forum....i am just pointing out how i see it and so far i think with the actions and reactions of people on here...im fairly accurate in my assessment.

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

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my intent in my above posting was not to drag the use of the word "coon" or your problem with calling raccoons "coons" to light as though this is a debate forum. it was to call out how interpretations are easily viewed as deviant in intent when they are clearly not. this is not the thread or forum for that debate xveganx. take your gripe to a new thread please. as i am discussing something copletely different than what you attempt to bring here.

feel free to take up your "coon" use cause in another area as it has nothing to do with the subject at hand.

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

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im not certain why you've stuck your nose in here. and constructive criticism is now butt licking in the uk? and you call them greasers? why is that?

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

one would assume your intent in this thread xveganx, is nothing more than to rudely and negatively draw attention away from the crux of what is the start of this thread. why is that?

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

Yeah, I understand what you're saying, but a lot of mod. actions are judgement calls anyway, so I don't see that being a problem. I could be wrong, though.

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

my point is it becomes a problem when some take the liberty to insult as much as they can on the fringe of rules thereby creating a "bad blood" scenario.

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

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Cool...so, it's okay to slam people, as long as the slam is creative and polite, i.e., the indirect slam okay, the direct slam not okay.

So, calling someone a "f&*ing moron" is entirely out of the question, but something like, "I've seen bigger brains in rocks." is acceptable.

Awesome.

in my opinion....you are doing nothing but harrassing since it is quite evident coon was used to describe a racoon in the instance you speak of. and your placement of this post is purely out of place and ridiculous. mods please address this or i will wind up going off like a cherry bomb on xveganx......

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lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

I don't know, that second one wasn't all that creative.

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black