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ORIGINAL: Real0ne

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ORIGINAL: angelic

wow... strange that you responded RealOne... you are the one i had in mind when asking about the blocking. you have diarreaha of the fingers that i mostly find rude and obnoxious and merely a way to get attention... but thanks for the head's up anyway.

(Apology to the Mods here)... end of this thread.

There happens to be a certain clique here that have literally become an institution on this forum and they get their kicks following me and a few other people around like a bunch of groupies. exchanging kudos with each other for disrupting various threads and posts. NOT only mine.

Get into an argument with one of them and like cockleburr you cant shake them off and they are attached to you for life. i am sure others have noticed that too, its pretty difficult to miss.

i am not talking about your comments about me, neither are you or the majority of others in this thread part of the clique i am talking about, just a couple and they know who they are.

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i respect your right to your opinion, and i hope you respect mine. trust me i am even more tired their conduct than you are of mine.

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

Here we are, a group fighting against censorship practicing self censorship. Words can not hurt you. Ignorance in a post or email - ignore it. The protagonist gets nothing out of being ignored. Their ongoing baiting and ranting establishes them and their opinions as inconsequential. I wouldn't doubt that there is even an ongoing game being played by some one-handed web surfers who score points by being banned or blocked.

Abuse and stalking should be reported. I'm confident that the moderators here will take care of the issue. Blocking is often a victory for the person you blocked. They "got to you"; or worse yet, they believe you can't handle their "truth". Is that the image you want to portray?

Just a thought.

i havent reported specific names yet of the groupies i speak of, where it had not occured to me it could be stalking, but in any case in general terms i have brought it to the attention of the mods that it is going on and i also spoke out against it in several of my posts as i am now at this point for the most part without naming names.

The only way i can get rid of most of these people is to go into threads they do not get involved in where you can see my tone is entirely different!
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Since the last couple of threads that i have openly spoke out against this kind of behavior and frankly as the op said got quite aggresive, i have noticed a small decline in the groupie count. Hopefully i can get rid of them all so we can have some good debates rather than the constant misrepresentation and distortion of my posts, knee jerk ranting, and bickering i have seen thus far from them, candy coating not withstanding..

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i agree with you 100% as far as the more modern definitions of protagonist and whole heartedly about censorship.
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It forces me to question if its purely ignorance, malice or both and since this only occurs from a certain few the latter seems more applicable.
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/jumps up excitedly and does the happy happy dance

I'm a groupie

IrishMist

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ORIGINAL: caitlyn
I do wish you would cut the word count by about 75%. Your posts tend to be repetitive to the point of being banal. Most get the point the first time you make it. Those that don't, never will.

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ORIGINAL: kc692
hmmmm, if not interested in censorship, why are you trying to "get rid" of all the ones that bother you to have a good debate? Just curious, are we all supposed to agree here? I thought that was the exact purpose of these forums; debate; and if everyone agrees, there is no reason for debate is there?

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ORIGINAL: IrishMist
/jumps up excitedly and does the happy happy dance
I'm a groupie

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when my statements are regurgitated so grossly misrepresented that they turn "my apple" into a "semi" only to have the gang represent "their semi" to appear as "my apple". In addition it does not stop at one post, others from this particular group join in to perpetuate debating the semi, the regurgitated version which invariably is structured to take a shot at me.

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ORIGINAL: seaturtle50

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when my statements are regurgitated so grossly misrepresented that they turn "my apple" into a "semi" only to have the gang represent "their semi" to appear as "my apple". In addition it does not stop at one post, others from this particular group join in to perpetuate debating the semi, the regurgitated version which invariably is structured to take a shot at me.

RealOne, this is a good point. as a matter of fact, i got it the first time you made it

Perhaps its only a manner of perceptions. i am sure you've heard that when witnesses who saw the exact same crime committed are questioned - they each have a different perspective, and consequently a different variation on exactly what they just saw. For this reason eye witnesses are largely unreliable in fact. <the rift between the population as to what a political event means is a good example - half see an accident - half a conspiracy. Was it really an accident or an evil plot? Apple of semi?>

Maybe "they" read your apple and it actually does represent a "semi" to them, so they then feed it back in their reply as such. Possibly just two different perspectives on the same thing me thinks.

Whatever - it still makes the world go around.

st50

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My purpose it to illustrate why the war on words took place and leave it at that.

(people)'... continue to argue a hopeless point.


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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble

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My purpose it to illustrate why the war on words took place and leave it at that.

(people)'... continue to argue a hopeless point.


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Now, see, Real. Everything in that post for a single purpose could have been said with less than one line. :)

Don't thank me.. was happy to do it.

;)

Celeste

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hmmmm, if not interested in censorship, why are you trying to "get rid" of all the ones that bother you to have a good debate? Just curious, are we all supposed to agree here? I thought that was the exact purpose of these forums; debate; and if everyone agrees, there is no reason for debate is there?