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21 Oct 2007, 9:37 am

Hadron wrote:

Queen Mary has ran out of lame latin insults...

Please refrain from name-calling.

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21 Oct 2007, 9:43 am

MrMark wrote:

Hadron wrote:

Queen Mary has ran out of lame latin insults...

Please refrain from name-calling.

Look up a few pages, you will see that Queen Mary started it. The words "Bayron" and "Meson" were used.

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21 Oct 2007, 9:44 am

calandale wrote:

So, spam is indeed useful?

Yes. The meaty variety, obviously.

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21 Oct 2007, 9:47 am

The fight keeps going and going... -_-;

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21 Oct 2007, 9:48 am

Hadron wrote:

MrMark wrote:

Please refrain from name-calling.

Look up a few pages, you will see that Queen Mary started it. The words "Bayron" and "Meson" were used.

Thank you. QM, please refrain from name-calling.

Hadron, I've never accepted "He did it first" as an excuse. You are responsible for your behavior. You will refrain from name-calling or I will ban you.

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21 Oct 2007, 9:54 am

By the way Hadron, QM has contributed substantially to this board with the intent of helping aspies learn to cope better in an NT world. You have not. This is one of the things I take into consideration when contemplating various courses of action available to me. This site is first and foremost a support site and information resource. It's social functions are secondary. You can go socialize anywhere. You don't have to do it here.

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21 Oct 2007, 10:04 am

MrMark wrote:

By the way Hadron, QM has contributed substantially to this board with the intent of helping aspies learn to cope better in an NT world. You have not. This is one of the things I into consideration when contemplating various courses of action available to me. This site is first and foremost a support site and information resource. It's social functions are secondary. You can go socialize anywhere. You don't have to do it here.

Since when exactly did you make the rules? If I understand, the site owner actually makes the rules, not yourself. Asides, I do contribute in the same way QM does to helping aspies, just with a different style. Perhaps you should read a few more of my other posts. As for lecturing me on my behaviour, you perhaps need to reconsider your own too. Accept it, the real problem is yourself and your decision to close that thread because it was some pet project of yours that didnt go quite the way you intended.

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21 Oct 2007, 10:06 am

MrMark wrote:

Hadron wrote:

MrMark wrote:

Please refrain from name-calling.

Look up a few pages, you will see that Queen Mary started it. The words "Bayron" and "Meson" were used.

Oh, so you are actually above another moderator. How strange. Given as the moderators set an example of acceptable conduct, I believe anything they do should be within the rules. And as an aside, is posting in antiquated langauges against the rules too?

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21 Oct 2007, 10:19 am

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There are no problems, only issues, and the issue now is name-calling.

As to the rules, earlier this year I asked Alex for full authority to manage non-technical issues as I felt best and he gave it to me. If you have a problem with that, see Alex.

I came on this board more than a year ago and began posting with honesty, sincerity, integrity, a genuine desire to help others, and a wealth of life experience. I developed a relationship with Alex and he seemed impressed with my insight. He's criticized my actions once, and he did so in a very non-critical manner. I have no need for a dynamic IP. How much influence do you think you have with Alex, or anybody else for that matter?

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21 Oct 2007, 10:24 am

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You're considering banning Quatermass now? My gods, you ARE
high on your presumed power.

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This site is first and foremost a support site and information resource. It's social functions are secondary. You can go socialize anywhere. You don't have to do it here.

Odd then that the majority of the site seems
devoted to socializing, and discussions having
little to do with AS - like your feminism thread.
Maybe that shouldn't have even been allowed?

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21 Oct 2007, 10:25 am

Hadron wrote:

MrMark wrote:

Hadron wrote:

MrMark wrote:

Please refrain from name-calling.

Look up a few pages, you will see that Queen Mary started it. The words "Bayron" and "Meson" were used.

You imply disparity where none exists. You complained and I responded as I would to any member with similar complaint. QM is not accountable to me, he is accountable to Alex. As to posting in antiquated languages, I am unaware of that rule, and besides I think that's kinda a legal technicality thing, like the definition of slander, more suitable for discussion among NT lawyers.

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21 Oct 2007, 10:26 am

MrMark wrote:

As to the rules, earlier this year I asked Alex for full authority to manage non-technical issues as I felt best and he gave it to me. If you have a problem with that, see Alex.

Interesting. So this is effectively YOUR site now?
Was this during your delusional period, or at some
other point? I may have something interesting to
discuss with you in private, BTW. Wouldn't do it
here though.

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21 Oct 2007, 10:32 am

calandale wrote:

MrMark wrote:

You're considering banning Quatermass now? My gods, you ARE
high on your presumed power.

Quote:

This site is first and foremost a support site and information resource. It's social functions are secondary. You can go socialize anywhere. You don't have to do it here.

Odd then that the majority of the site seems
devoted to socializing, and discussions having
little to do with AS - like your feminism thread.
Maybe that shouldn't have even been allowed?

I don't understand your reasoning. Why in the world would I consider banning QM? As to the discreprency between the intent and the reality of the site, the way the site is used does not change the intent. Nevertheless, we don't disallow socializing.

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21 Oct 2007, 11:15 am

No idea what's going on,
but the site is not allowing me
to post this reply in the thread
that I started.

MrMark wrote:

I don't understand your reasoning. Why in the world would I consider banning QM?.

Damned if I know. Sounded like
it was under your consideration,
in the post that I quoted.

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As to the discreprency between the intent and the reality of the site, the way the site is used does not change the intent. Nevertheless, we don't disallow socializing

Strange again, because the site's popularity
seems to have more to do with the socializing,
and free discussion of other topics than it does
with AS directly. The majority of fora have little
to do with it. And the free wheeling nature seems
to promote more interplay and enjoyment. Oh, now
and then someone gets pissy about a thread being
hijacked by people who didn't want to be constrained,
but most members just don't presume that the topics
that they start are absolutely inviolate, and that we must
all stay on the course set by the OP.

Whew! Whatever went wrong
seems oh god I'm sexy now.

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21 Oct 2007, 12:39 pm

Hadron wrote:

gwenevyn wrote:

Hadron wrote:

gwenevyn wrote:

So has anything been achieved so far in this discussion?

If so, I missed it.

Plenty, someone has been exposed for throwing his toys out the pram. Dummy anyone?

That's not quite the conclusion I've drawn.

Care to enlighten us...?

Well, I care to talk about it. I don't think it's within my power to cause you to adopt my view.

I think even aspies know when they're provoking versus when they're making an effort to communicate effectively and constructively. The approach chosen repeatedly throughout this thread seems designed to provoke--or at least one could have reasonably made the conjecture that it would have that effect.

Would there have been something less effective about broaching the subject in a manner conducive to dialogue, as I asked yesterday?

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21 Oct 2007, 12:47 pm

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Would there have been something less effective about broaching the subject in a manner conducive to dialogue, as I asked yesterday?

Yes. I've found that this kind of tactic
is the ONLY way to attract the kind
of attention which actually works to
stop such abuses here. Simple discussion
just gets ignored. Quite simply, without reminding
the mods of their prior failings and misjudgments,
and the effects that these have had, and the similarity
to the current situation, they tend to just blithely not
only deny (as they have) but also to continue
overmoderating. On the other hand, a bit of
confrontation seems to reduce their willingness
to provoke the issue again and again.

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