BS: Deleted posts & closed threads

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:00 AM

Interesting Fact


"Although May Day is now the first day of the month of May, before 1752, when the calendar was changed, it was 11 days earlier."

FYI.

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 10:34 PM

Would someone please 'sanction' Shambles??????

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: SharonA
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM

Why go to all the trouble to edit members' repetitively annoying messages, and yet keep on-site the option of posting repetitively annoying messages as an anonymous GUEST???????????????????????

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 07:15 PM

Why keep trash?

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 07:06 PM

Perhaps instead of deleting posts the moderators should simply move them over to the "Will This Thread Ever Get 5000 Posts?" thread.

Doing so would accomplish several objectives:

1) It would move that thread a little closer to its stated goal of 5000 posts.

2) It would appease those who don't like seeing their posts deleted. They'd still be around, just somewhere else.

3) Offensive posts would be disarmed by removing them from the context within which they were made.

4) It would reaffirm my status as a really smart guy since it's my ingenious idea, possibly leading to my giving khandu a run for his money in the contest for "Time Magazine Man of the Year Award".

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:37 PM

"after all those weeks of restraint" Then somone goes deleting messages - it's a bummer.

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:34 PM

"after all those weeks of restraint"

Maybe it's more accurate to say "after all those weeks IN restraints"

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:24 PM

Dogs chase after cars, although they have no intention of driving them.


Shambles: I just don't care anymore. You press your point, time after time, until you press too far and then complain about the check. You do this purposefully to prove a point, but in the end, you are a distraction from the real point of this site. You too, should bid farewell.
Max Spiegel 11th May 06.

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:05 PM

We know from experience that some people are never happy even when their wildest dreams are fulfilled...they just go on to some other negative aspect in their putrid little lives.

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:03 PM

Right Wolfgang. It's a pity people can't leave things alone.

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Wolfgang
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 05:58 PM

Ahh, after all those weeks of restraint (or have I read the wrong threads?) it was too demanding to further keep from telling Max how this site should be run. He must have nearly choked the last couple of weeks. Today's logorhea is a katharsis for a tormented soul.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 05:54 PM

When anyone deletes a message PLEASE put a note in to say that the message has been deleted and WHY.

I was trying to follow a thread the other day and came across a message that obviously didn't make sense. It wasn't until later that I discovered that a message had been deleted with no comment whatsoever.

Whoever deleted that message completely destroyed the continuity of the thread.

Whilst I appreciate that a certain amount of editing is needed to remove obnoxious messages; if editing is done secretly it only opens up the forum for further dissention.

I can see no reason whatsoever for removing a message without letting Mudcatters know what is going on.

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I'm sorry, Bert, but that's not going to happen. If we have to report and defend and debate deletions, it would only exacerbate the trouble caused by problem posts. The volunteers are supposed to make deletions only for the most obvious problems, and they are to report all deletions to Jeff or me. Jeff and I consult with each other.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 05:45 PM

That's a darn good place to buy a mandolin from what I hear. Lots of good builders in the Czech Republic. But you're still stuck on the guitar aren't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 05:21 PM

Not this year, sIx, but I was in the Czech Republic last year.

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: number 6
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:31 PM

Joe ... did ya find any good Czech folk music in Poland?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: number 6
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:29 PM

HeHe ..... let's keep this a vintage web forum.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:29 PM

Well, Clinton, I'm having a great time with Czech songs and intend to leave Shambles more-or-less alone, as long as he stays in this thread...
It promises to be a good year for wildflowers, and there are trails to hike and lakes to canoe in the Sierra, but I plan to be sleeping in my own bed most every night - now that I'm back from Poland.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:25 PM

fats? That should read FARTS

Stupid non-edit-able message board

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:20 PM

" I'm here for the entire summer"
Shit Joe, tell me you have better things to do... like maybe chasing your own fats with a pillow case.... or trying to get dogs and cats to breed....

Anything's better than running behind Shambles with a poop-scoop

"a gift for writing beautiful verse"
Never seen any of that....

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:12 PM

How did such a gift for writing beautiful verse, and such a mess of paranoia, ever wind up in the same skin?

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: number 6
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:11 PM

"*figure out for yourself who "we" is - you're a smart boy."

as CH stated ... "Oh sweet merciful fuck"

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:11 PM

Shambles you have shown that you are a total shambles....what more notoriety do you want? Sure you mean well.....but!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:10 PM

My sympathies Joe. It's going to be a long hot summer.

Shambles - put me in the "I already know and I just don't care" column.

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:02 PM

This and recent threads closures - would seem to signify a move to a new stage of imposed judgement and censorship.

That's right, Shambles. There is a general feeling among Mudcatters that enough is enough, that there is no need for abusive posts like those of Martin Gibson and Gargoyle, or for your abuses - hijacking threads on other subjects to use in your campaign against Mudcat editorial actions, and copy-pasting the same information over and over again.
We* do our best to retain the content of what you've posted, but the location and multiplicity of your posts have become a serious problem and will be controlled.
So, say whatever you want here. If you've already copy-pasted something at another location, you've lost the right to copy-paste it again and it's fair game for deletion.
Is Mudcat editing personally motivated? I don't really think so - it's the constant repetition of what you post that's the problem, and it's usually just the repetition that gets controlled. There's nothing personal here, Shambles - just quit the repetition and say something new for a change, and everything will be hunky-dory.

-Joe Offer-


*figure out for yourself who "we" is - you're a smart boy. (Shambles has a compulsive need to ask who "we" is whenever I use the word)

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Note to Clones: I'm here for the entire summer, so there's no need for you to do any editing work on this thread. I can handle it, if it's needed.

okay, joe! -clone-

dang it, you get all the fun. OK. And green is my color, whoever you are. LOL. Mudelf
[we hear and obey, oh exhalted one <i>skinny clone</i>]
Can I get Calomine for my itchy fingers then? Mudpiskie

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 03:59 PM

Oh sweet merciful fuck will you get a life Shambles...........

Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: kendall
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 03:50 PM

SSDD

Subject: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 03:41 PM

Shambles, please try to remember that this is a thread about the Licensing Act. I can't allow you to hijack threads on other subjects and use them for your campaign against "Mudcat censorship." You'll find your messages, intact, in the thread titled Is closing threads censorship. If you really feel a need to discuss new aspects of the subject of censorship, you may start a new thread - but you may have only one thread active at a time on the subject, and it will be in the "BS" section. If it is littered with copy-pastes from other threads, it will most probably be closed.
I repeat, this particular thread is about the Licensing Act. If anyone posts comments about Mudcat administration here, those messages will be moved to the "closing threads" thread.
-Joe Offer-

The above editing comment was inserted in the following thread as well as posts from me and other posters, being deleted from it (and other threads).

Affected by the Licensing Act 2003

This and recent threads closures - would seem to signify a move to a new stage of imposed judgement and censorship.


http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=92691&messages=245

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=92826&messages=3

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=91184&messages=267

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=92844&messages=71&page=1&desc=yes

As in the middle of all this silliness - I would appear to have been granted permission to start a new thread on this subject by Joe Offer – I think I will. I think it important that posters on our forum are aware of the true extent of the personally motivated censorship on our forum. What you feel about it is a matter for you. But I suspect that it may be as well to express your view now and in this thread – as you may not get the chance to do so again.