Re: Conspiracy to Disrupt FF!
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:01 am
I hear you all, and I thank you for your comments, and you can continue to comment even after this message is posted.
I, of course, am torn, because I do fervently believe in free speech, but I also hear what a lot of you are saying about wanting a place that you can call home, that encourages discussion, but not conflicts and drama, and that is a fun place to hang out. That has always been my vision for FF. Yes, traffic increases when conflicts like this occur, but often it's like the traffic jams when people are rubber-necking to see if they can see some blood and guts at an accident scene along the highway. Does this type of traffic really result in increased sales for our producers? I doubt that.
Now, I know on other boards rabble-rousers are merely banned without any discussion or controversy. I also know that some people feel that the poll that I put up looks like some kind of public hanging. The reason that I have gone this route is that suspensions and bannings are not a common event on this board. I don't issue vacations as a matter of course. I do allow people to voice their opinions on this board without fear of being muzzled. It is only in rare and extreme cases that suspensions and bans are even talked about here. In a year and a half of operating with over 1,500 members only two people have been banned from this site, and only one person was suspended for a few hours. This is not a common occurrence, and is not to be made lightly. If I decided that a person should be suspended for disrupting this board and the membership overwhelmingly voted against that decision, I would follow the majority opinion, because if you don't mind the disruption, it certainly won't bother this thick-skinned old webmaster
Tonight, I have terminated the advertising account of the production company represented by John Matrix, Pennpaul and Jafa. Since both Pennpaul and Jafa have refused my requirement for an apology, and taking into account the poll results, there is no further need to drag this matter out and wait another 15 hours. I have therefore suspended Pennpaul, John Matrix and jafa effective immediately.
They are no longer invited to the parties that we'll be holding here, and the erotic death fetish discussions that we shall have, because they just never got it! Well, I guess I was a slow learner too, but I finally got it! The three of them never came here to be part of this community, but only to stir the pot then go elsewhere and complain about the "Fightin' Fellas". Well, we ain't the Fightin' Fellas y'all, we are the Friendly Folk (which includes the lovely ladies here) of the Femme Fatalities message board, and we're here to have fun with one another, not to make war.
I will leave this thread open for closing thoughts, then lock it tomorrow.
Blue
(P.S. Drinks are once again on me!
)
I, of course, am torn, because I do fervently believe in free speech, but I also hear what a lot of you are saying about wanting a place that you can call home, that encourages discussion, but not conflicts and drama, and that is a fun place to hang out. That has always been my vision for FF. Yes, traffic increases when conflicts like this occur, but often it's like the traffic jams when people are rubber-necking to see if they can see some blood and guts at an accident scene along the highway. Does this type of traffic really result in increased sales for our producers? I doubt that.
Now, I know on other boards rabble-rousers are merely banned without any discussion or controversy. I also know that some people feel that the poll that I put up looks like some kind of public hanging. The reason that I have gone this route is that suspensions and bannings are not a common event on this board. I don't issue vacations as a matter of course. I do allow people to voice their opinions on this board without fear of being muzzled. It is only in rare and extreme cases that suspensions and bans are even talked about here. In a year and a half of operating with over 1,500 members only two people have been banned from this site, and only one person was suspended for a few hours. This is not a common occurrence, and is not to be made lightly. If I decided that a person should be suspended for disrupting this board and the membership overwhelmingly voted against that decision, I would follow the majority opinion, because if you don't mind the disruption, it certainly won't bother this thick-skinned old webmaster
Tonight, I have terminated the advertising account of the production company represented by John Matrix, Pennpaul and Jafa. Since both Pennpaul and Jafa have refused my requirement for an apology, and taking into account the poll results, there is no further need to drag this matter out and wait another 15 hours. I have therefore suspended Pennpaul, John Matrix and jafa effective immediately.
They are no longer invited to the parties that we'll be holding here, and the erotic death fetish discussions that we shall have, because they just never got it! Well, I guess I was a slow learner too, but I finally got it! The three of them never came here to be part of this community, but only to stir the pot then go elsewhere and complain about the "Fightin' Fellas". Well, we ain't the Fightin' Fellas y'all, we are the Friendly Folk (which includes the lovely ladies here) of the Femme Fatalities message board, and we're here to have fun with one another, not to make war.
I will leave this thread open for closing thoughts, then lock it tomorrow.
Blue
(P.S. Drinks are once again on me!
)