Seem to be getting tore up pretty badly today. Funny how someone starts something and you respond, then it is turned around to the point of YOU being the aggressor in the entire matter. (
Now before you get all hot and bothered, I did take a shot at Donald, I don't like him and he doesn't like me ... we have a history)
What I find loosely being bantering around here today is shifting the focus from one to the other. For lack of a better analogy, "
A lynch mob mentality seems to be the mood" but I could be wrong.
So I will make it easy for you. I will give ALL of you a vote. You get one vote ... Seven days from now, I will publish the results (or the poll itself will publish the results, I am not sure). As I am sane and rational individual and I really don't give a ---- one way or the other, I will abide by the results.Most of this is fabricated nonsense, no one is going around stirring the pot on other boards, I have caused no problems anywhere that I am aware of recently. Believe it or not, I am actually welcome in some circles.
Each day, I have roughly the population of a small city that comes to my webpage, which has been going strong for over seven years now, and has had over 1.3 million views. If it truly were as lame as some have suggested, it would not be where it is today, successful and thriving. Most of it original, insightful, and contains very few lame articles as has been claimed.
Allow me to ask a question?
Who coined the term Internet Stalker first, who then quickly followed up and came on board with the reference to "Predator" and "Railroad Monkeys" ... Sure wasn't me.
As for the
CAPITAL LETTERS, that is just my style, I will continue with it. If you don't care for the material that is fine, but you do NOT tell me how to do it, that option is mine. Just look at it a an added bonus, when you see it, you will know it is just another blatant attack on stupidity or something lame, and as Clifford has pointed out, ignore it and just skip off down the road and have a nice day.
In the end, the moderators will move it from the front of the stove to the back burner (off topic). I would expect nothing less of them.
Oscar Wilde once wrote that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and yet the highest form of intelligence. If my wit or casual observations do not amuse you. Or if it's the case that my sarcasm is beyond your grasp: then perhaps the a few of you should just piss off.
You want me off the island? Here is your chance to vote me off, go for it.Watch those right-handers.
BCO
Hate to see it come to a vote I doubt they vote you off you only have 5 ignores same as me, but me I have had enough of the whining so I am deleting my self when I figure out my pass word
good bye
I voted in your favor Boxcar. I think we all are guilty from time to time of letting good nature fun go to far or disagree on some issue and allow it to get ugly. Lord only knows I have said things on here and in areas outside the web that I should not have. I've been viewing and posting on this board for many years and have seen this sort of thing take place on here and other boards I visit and most of the time, it blows over. We'll just have to see what happens but I hope it works out on here for you.
This is not "Survivor". Nobody votes other members off the island. The Moderating Team, with Phil Lyons, the forum administrator, having the final say, have the responsibility to determine if a member must leave because of grievous or repeated rules violations.
One could argue this post is fair in that a person should get to respond to criticism. However, again, this is not a forum for fights between members. The only way to stop it is to stop it. These days Boxcar generally posts in the Off Topic board like we ask when his post is not about buses. In that board, it is fine, and even welcome as long as it does not directly or indirectly attack another member. Actually his posts are generally fun to read, even when not bus related. If you like his posts, you can read them in the Off Topic board. If you don't like to see posts that aren't bus related, don't go into the Off Topic board.
Arguments and infighting destroy a board. We have lost many members over the last couple years to this. Including some of the most helpful members the board has/had.
Simply put, we don't care how other forums do it. We don't care if some people enjoy online flame wars. That is not what is acceptable here. Attacking other members is a violation of one of our oldest and most steadfast rules. It is not allowed.