I beg to differ on that. That may be the case on Houston Co-Ed but I'm not sure you'll find the same view point in this forum. More than once people have stopped posting either in ASPD and now here because of at the very least low level harassment. Go take a look at his pointer to ASPD; if one thread is locked it starts in another one, if one board becomes too hot he tries to start it on another board. (I was not planning on posting on eraps in any case so that point is moot here).
Did you know WTF was banned from the HDH forum on ASPD for a period of time? he has now stated that he has received points here. So either there is a cabal out to get him (and you would have to wonder why, after all this is just a message board) or there is a pattern.
Originally Posted by discreetgent
This has nothing to do with the thread. Let's get off off of the personal diatribe. Use the PM system. - JB
I pick pattern. ding, ding, ding, did I win?
Nothing personal WTF, but you do bring a lot of it upon yourself.
Originally Posted by Nicolette Bordeauxva
Absolutely! No question about it. I won't tell you what I thought about his political and religious beliefs based on his posts before I first met him. I still disagree with him, but they are views and opinions - that's all. We havce the right to both have and express them in this country.
I'm sure a few here in this HDH section are above reproach, but newsflash: there's something a little "different" about everybody here when you get right down to it. Maybe if you met the guy, you'd feel differently. I know I did, as have many others.
I recall a debate he and a former friend of mine were having over "sexual preference" vs. "racial prejudice" on aspd, or maybe it was Home 2 - can't remember. It got heated and I thought they were going to slug it out over the inetrnet. I suggested, since I knew and was friends with both that they meet. After they met, they hit it off fine; in fact, they still get along and it is I who no longer talks to the unnamed former board member (for wholly unrelated reasons).
Now, I'm not suggesting we all get together for a group hug, and a few choruses of Kum-ba-yah; don't get me wrong. All I am saying is when someone is passionate about their beliefs, and all they have is a typewriter to express it, much gets lost (and oft misinterpreted). Absent intonation, inflection, facial expressions, and the like, we have all misinterpreted the tone or tenor of an email before. Haven't you?
I used to loathe reading MRHAPPY's posts on aspd. It was the same ol, same ol, time after time, ad nauseum. He and I didn't agree on much. But I respected him (admittedly more after his death when some of his views proved to be true in contrast to my initial beliefs). But you couldn't fault him for his beliefes. And, when I first joined aspd so many years ago, TheDaliLama told me about the MRHAPPY rule, which I will attempt to describe.
You can argue, disagree, fight, yank each other's chains in these forums, but if the time comes you ever meet face to face, all discussions of politics are temporarily dropped, and the only argument is which if you has the privilege of buying his/her adversary the first drink. (I'm paraphrasing).
I never thought I would want to meet many of the people whose board personae I didn't care for, but in every instance when I did (social events, friend introduces, etc.), I at least saw them differently. I didn't become their friend necessarily, but I could almost always form a better understanding of the person behind the keyboard.
I guess what I meant to say is I don't know many people who have ever met WTF who dislike him, even those (like MRHAPPY) who vehemently disagreed with him on the boards. In fact, I don't know any, although I am sure some exist.
(Then again, he usually picks up the check, so I'm probably a biased WK).
Ansley, care to chime in here now that you met the forum whipping boy?
Just my $.02, which I understand won't go very far in a forum bearing this one's name.
BTW, I really don't give a diamond or tuxedo whether you ever like the guy or not - just respect his right to post his opinion, and don't be overly sensitive. Or put him on IGNORE!! RTM button should be used ONLY when someone is outed, or on the verge of it. But that's just my view. Anything else that can be worked out without mod intervention keeps mods around - I'm just saying