adorshki
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Understand, thanks for clarifying. I was lurking for about a year before formally registering but I don't remember that name.
Politcal discussion on LTG!
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Understand, thanks for clarifying. I was lurking for about a year before formally registering but I don't remember that name.
12 string
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Me too, but IIRC it was personal circumstances and not the political controversy which caused her absence.
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No, there were personality conflicts, overt misogyny, personal attacks, that sort of stuff too.
adorshki
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Of course, "politics" covers all that in a nutshell.
:biggrin-new:
chazmo
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Growing pains, I'm afraid. I'm not inclined to revisit the past much, but I love the LTG community, then and now. You guys rock, and I it's been my privilege to be associated with my fellow moderators and to be associated with all of you.
LTG has been a warm, friendly place to visit and it's my/our objective to keep it that way. Tallyho.
LTG has been a warm, friendly place to visit and it's my/our objective to keep it that way. Tallyho.
Well said, chazmo! Tallyho, indeed! :encouragement:
walrus
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Yuppity-yup. The boys club belongs in the past.
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I remember things that did not happen.
- The policy was in place but not enforced.
- The lack of enforcement drove a small number of folks away or into silence.
- Enforcement was stepped up (increased moderation) and a large number of folks objected.
- Stuff happened after which the most vocal objectors to enforcement had left or gone silent, the moderators had figured out better ways to moderate and Life Was Good.
I see 3) as the watershed event but at least one person it as 2)
How 'bout them Cubs?
adorshki
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It's starting to happen to me now too.
Would you attribute that to age or membership here?
What about the Cubs?
JohnW63
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Running a forum is not always easy. I have one I run. Politics or religion were not an issue in our past, but I think that was due to the topic, which doesn't really lend it's self to those threads. Unless, perhaps it would be the politics of the FIA. Finding the happy ground between heavy handed moderation and too much laissez-faire can be hard. Some like having a place where anything goes and others prefer a less argumentative place. The posters who try to claim 1st amendment rights to say what ever they want, haven't really READ the 1st amendment. The vast majority of forums are private, and the conditions of joining state that. We who pay for them and work hard to make them grow and keep everyone as happy as possible, have to walk the line.
JerryR
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There is a part of me that imagines one candidate in the US election as a banjo player and the other with an accordion but...[/QUOTE]
We're not allowed to make comments about banjos.????? (Shock)
We're not allowed to make comments about banjos.????? (Shock)
chazmo
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Banjos, mandos, ukes, harmonicas, and accordions are all fair game, Jerry. Greetings across the Pond.
mavuser
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well, if you say so...
what's the difference between a harmonica and a trampoline??
you take your boots off before you jump on a trampoline! BOOM thanks i'll be here all week
chazmo
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Go Mav!
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HAAAAA HAAAAAA!! I never heard that one before!! Too funny..... :encouragement:
