Banning/Suspending Posters

[creekster]

Anyone who would describe Babs as ever having been "incredibly cruel" has either led a charmed life or has a tendency to overshoot by a country mile when describing anything. Best to keep one's verbal powder dry for when it really matters.

Babs can be adroit with the verbal barb (!), but I've never seen her be genuinely cruel to anyone, except to DDD and, as noted above, and no one questions the appropriateness in that case.

Finally, I'm trying to decide if it's cool or lame that a 57 year-old grandpa enjoys, in small doses, the soap opera aspects of an internet message board. Okay, I'll go with lame, but I can't help myself.

57? wow. You ARE the old man of the board.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Anyone who would describe Babs as ever having been "incredibly cruel" has either led a charmed life or has a tendency to overshoot by a country mile when describing anything. Best to keep one's verbal powder dry for when it really matters.

Babs can be adroit with the verbal barb (!), but I've never seen her be genuinely cruel to anyone, except to DDD and, as noted above, and no one questions the appropriateness in that case.

Finally, I'm trying to decide if it's cool or lame that a 57 year-old grandpa enjoys, in small doses, the soap opera aspects of an internet message board. Okay, I'll go with lame, but I can't help myself.

How about both. Cool that you even know how to use the internet. Lame that you like the soap opera. In full disclaimer, I like the soap opera as well. But I don't get cool points for understanding how to use the internet.

[creekster]

Stop making it about me. How did Christ respond to the pharisees? Was he Christlike when he called them hypocrites, or when he pointed out their cruelty when they were prepared to stone the adulterer?

What? It is about you. It was your post!

OTOH, by your subtle comparison to Christ I see you are either meekly mocking Him or your ego is so far out of control that there is not much point here.

[Babs]

Stop making it about me. How did Christ respond to the pharisees? Was he Christlike when he called them hypocrites, or when he pointed out their cruelty when they were prepared to stone the adulterer?

Ahh, so Creek is Christlike in calling out your hypocrisy. Point granted.

[RobinFinderson]

look, no one expects oyu to be perfect. But nayone that tells everyone to be nice ahile AT THE SAME TIME calling someone mean and cruel is pretty amusing to me. It's like my old man telling telling me not to smoke as he exhaled some blue marlboro man fumes in my face. So I dont expect you or anyone to be perfect but maybe at least as long as it takes to string a post together you can be consistent?

Stop making it about me. How did Christ respond to the pharisees? Was he Christlike when he called them hypocrites, or when he pointed out their cruelty when they were prepared to stone the adulterer?

[Babs]

Finally, I'm trying to decide if it's cool or lame that a 57 year-old grandpa enjoys, in small doses, the soap opera aspects of an internet message board. Okay, I'll go with lame, but I can't help myself.

Isn't it the best!!!!

There's no doubt babs was unabashedly cruel to wuap on his first two days, but 1) he so asked for it, and 2) one would think that would be a matter between babs and wuap, not between robin and babs and wuap.

[PaloAltoCougar]

your posts on this topic are some of the most underinformed, self-righteous, and condescending I've ever seen. And frankly, with Triplet around, that's really saying something.

Creekster, thank you, but I think Robin's posts speak for themselves.

Anyone who would describe Babs as ever having been "incredibly cruel" has either led a charmed life or has a tendency to overshoot by a country mile when describing anything. Best to keep one's verbal powder dry for when it really matters.

Babs can be adroit with the verbal barb (!), but I've never seen her be genuinely cruel to anyone, except to DDD and, as noted above, and no one questions the appropriateness in that case.

Finally, I'm trying to decide if it's cool or lame that a 57 year-old grandpa enjoys, in small doses, the soap opera aspects of an internet message board. Okay, I'll go with lame, but I can't help myself.

[creekster]

How are the guppies to respond to the barracuda without themselves becoming a barracuda? Was Christ a guppy? Were the pharisees barracudas? What did Christ do, and how can that inform us? My own failure to live up to what I see as essentially Christian values leaves me uninformed, self righteous, condescending, etc, so I'm apparently unable to offer an answer to this question without being a hypocrite. So I'll turn the question to you. How are the guppies to respond to the barracuda without themselves becoming a barracuda?

look, no one expects oyu to be perfect. But nayone that tells everyone to be nice ahile AT THE SAME TIME calling someone mean and cruel is pretty amusing to me. It's like my old man telling telling me not to smoke as he exhaled some blue marlboro man fumes in my face. So I dont expect you or anyone to be perfect but maybe at least as long as it takes to string a post together you can be consistent?

[smokymountainrain]

yeah...just watch him go crying to the committee again. What a pansyboy!

Seriously. I'm sure he will.

[smokymountainrain]

Sure, but that is far wide of the point.

I see I missed the point entirely then. Carry on.

[Babs]

Babs, as long as you continue to take these kinds of shots at DDD you can be as incredibly cruel and belittling, and relentless as you need to be as far as I'm concerned.

yeah...just watch him go crying to the committee again. What a pansyboy!

[Babs]

How are the guppies to respond to the barracuda without themselves becoming a barracuda? Was Christ a guppy? Were the pharisees barracudas? What did Christ do, and how can that inform us? My own failure to live up to what I see as essentially Christian values leaves me uninformed, self righteous, condescending, etc, so I'm apparently unable to offer an answer to this question without being a hypocrite. So I'll turn the question to you. How are the guppies to respond to the barracuda without themselves becoming a barracuda?

not in word, but in deed.

[RobinFinderson]

ANd so yet again, is this you showing meekness or kindness? When you preface your pleas with something as mean spitited as this it sounds like so much self-serving hot air, at least to me. We should all be meek and kind except you, when you want to tell somone else to be meek and kind. Is that about it?

How are the guppies to respond to the barracuda without themselves becoming a barracuda? Was Christ a guppy? Were the pharisees barracudas? What did Christ do, and how can that inform us? My own failure to live up to what I see as essentially Christian values leaves me uninformed, self righteous, condescending, etc, so I'm apparently unable to offer an answer to this question without being a hypocrite. So I'll turn the question to you. How are the guppies to respond to the barracuda without themselves becoming a barracuda?

[creekster]

Isn't it when they are being mean little SOBs that we generally ask for them to increase their kindness? Is pointing out their behavior while asking them to be nice really that bad or mean?

Sure, but that is far wide of the point.

[smokymountainrain]

And frankly, with Triplet around, that's really saying something.

Babs, as long as you continue to take these kinds of shots at DDD you can be as incredibly cruel and belittling, and relentless as you need to be as far as I'm concerned.