Thanks Terry.
Please
understand where I am coming from. You weren't here when various users decided that they could blindly attack
anybody they didn't like and could disrupt every thread with useless babble so nobody could actually talk seriously
about pheromones. Before that, there were no real rules except the golden one. Unfortunately, some people do not
follow the golden rule and we ended up making a bunch of rules that I don't personally like to enforce. I am doing
the job of moderator as a favor to Bruce, not because I want to be a dictator or even especially like it.
You
have no idea how many restrictions I have on me as compared to another user. Because I have this silly damned title
I cannot say what I want more often than not, otherwise people will be whining about my being unfair and heavy
handed and Hitler on steroids and all that happy BS. Yes, I do read comments made about me elsewhere. If you look at
what I really do and consider the source of those statements you may eventually realize who the real bullshitters
are.
Actually, I own a business that demands a lot of me, have a wife, my own children and grandchildren and a
life of my own. What I do here, as a volunteer, is something I try to plug in between all my other responsibilities,
often either before most people get out of bed in the morning or after they are long asleep. And I try very hard to
enforce the rules both fairly and exactly as the behavoir of forum members have caused us to write them. There is
not a single rule here that I enforce that was not the direct result of something some member did. Those are often
the same ones who whine and complain about the unfairness of it in other places.
I am easy to contact. And those
who have contacted me in a reasonable manner have found that I am willing to listen and often to change my position,
to reverse myself. Those who attack me don't ever get me to change my mind but those who can act like a rational
adult get a fair hearing. I know that I am human and make mistakes. Hell! I have no idea about moderating a forum
and am learning the job as I go along.
Just for fun, imagine that in some public place somebody said the same
things to you that you said to me. What would you have done? No grudges, no hard feelings, OK? But the next time you
have a problem with something you think I did, instead of attacking me or complaining about it in other venues, try
talking to me.
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