================================================ Subject: Re: I spent two hours with Scott today! (drags into the NCR but still on base) From: "Keith Mears" To: Date: Sun 8 Jul 2001 23:02:45 -0500 ================================================ Scott, you're my hero! I couldn't (and probably WOULDN'T, at this point) have said it any better. > So lets see... first, we get yelled at for fighting... then we get yelled at > for not fighting but for holding a discussion... then we get yelled at again > for still not fighting, but for instead replying to posts... now we're > getting told to clean up a list that hasn't had a fight in several days? > Umm... anyone else here, besides Debbi and I, notice a problem with this? > When did this switch from a discussion list to a "read 'em and shut up" > message board? Because some day I might want to come out of semi-lurk mode, > and just want to know what the Hell we ARE allowed to do on here now. Would > anyone care to share with me what is allowed here, if such things as posting > relies, and discussing things with friends isn't wanted? > I understand that ScottS may not like coming here anymore... as I recall, > around the last time he posted here was about the same time that our > favorite porn starlette Beth was around... so he probably caught the start > of that, plus the umpteen members who would sign up just to bash the band. > But things have actually gotten better around here the past few days... and > if some of the members here can't handle decent conversations, then perhaps > a discussion list isn't the right place for them (key word there, as several > have pointed out, is "Discussion"). > One person (no names) used the term "nonsense" to describe the discussions > taking place. Well, as a person that participated in some of those > discussions, I can say that if you would have actually read them from start > to end, then they would have made sense... and some of the topics were > actually very meaningful. We covered safety with fireworks, which > transfered into some of the horror stories that we have seen as parents... > we covered sick children... yes, none of this had to do with Creed, but > honestly, how much of the posts on here right now do? If they're not > fighting, why not leave them be? > This list has gone through so many changes the past year and a half that I > have been watching it... and as Tara mentions, it's gone through many more > in the 3 years that she has been here... why is everyone suddenly now > letting friendly discussions and people replying to posts bother them? Is > everyone really so blind that they can't see that things are much better now > than they were 2 weeks ago? Doesn't anyone LIKE that? I mean, if everyone > would prefer, we could go back to the fighting... (Keith, you suck... you > should have learned to duck before getting your face beat in with an ugly > stick... joking, btw). > Why don't we let things follow their own course and just wait patiently for > the new CD. If a discussion happens that takes 100 mails, then just quickly > scroll through the headers to see if there's anything you might WANT to see, > then just mass-delete the rest. If you worry about the number of mails > filling your hotmail account, then you probably should have used a bigger > mail provider to handle them all, since the main page warns that this is a > high-volume list. I would suggest to them, instead of them asking us to > stop replying to posts, is instead to either get a bigger mail handler, or > check their mail more often than once a week. > So, now that I've managed to piss of 90% of the list (woo hoo... go me, go > me... go go go), I'm going to end this off with a simple statement... not > directed to anyone, but just to whoever thinks it refers to them. > "Stop the bloody whining about what happens on the list, and just be glad > it's not more damn fighting... try joining in on the discussions, instead of > trying to shoot them down... you might have fun." Now... off to find more > old posts from the archive... does anyone have a problem with me posting old > funny stuff from a year ago? Of course, do I care? To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp