This one is for Eric, who's definitely going to come over here to find out what us dreamers are up to. Always does, to pinch my links and take them over to his walled in garden to anally pontificate on them, ad nauseam.
Suspension of LL's Posting Privileges Here (Yet Again) ... What an absolute and complete surprise. Never would have dreamt that would happen! Or that the harmless post would be removed. Shocking!
Evidently you wear SI Bans as a badge of honor. Got that one right. I consider people who ban others to be humor deficient. Getting banned by them is like Lenny Bruce going to jail for his harmless - though extremely funny - jokes. A true badge of honor it is, indeed!
No less than 10 individuals have banned you from some 16 boards. Sure enough. None of them have a sense of humor. Thanks for making my point.
Many are long term members I respect and some are respected SI Admins that work diligently on our behalf. I'm very happy for you and your precious respect. Oh, BTW, Admins are getting paid. One would expect them to work diligently, would one not? I work diligently on behalf of my clients, when I get paid. Somehow this part of your argument is not hitting on all cylinders. As for your precious long term suckups, you know perfectly well that I care about them about as much as I do about their nightmarish investing train wrecks. Wrong way on the highway drivers can be fun to watch on TV, but I don't respect them nearly as much as you do! Getting banned by them? A buzzing mosquito is worth notice. Their bans are not.
I realize that you have extreme difficulty accepting the fact that since mid-'99 under go2net's ownership and Bryan Burdicks's ( BryanB's) management as SI's membership was expanding rapidly expanded that the capability for a registered SI member to not only found a new SI board but to moderate it was established and moderators were given the limited privilege of instituting a subject/board ban. There was good reason for this. Many of the boards had turned into swamps. Netiquette was increasingly unobserved. Food fights had become way to common, so had vulgarity, and so did denigration and disrespect of fellow members. SI was becoming Yahoo, overrun by yahoos. Some board contributors refused to follow posting guidelines, protocols, or rules established by the boards' various founders. Hogwash. I was here almost a year before you, and saw nothing like that happening. SI was never like Yahoo or Raging Bull, or any other vermin infested place. There was never a need for moderators. They got introduced here cause SI's new management wanted to mimic Investorshub, which was starting to seriously eat SI's lunch. Big mistake #1. Big mistake #2 was selling SI to IH's convicted criminal owners. Big mistake #3 was to keep the idiotic moderating model after that. Why? Cause now SI has around 26362 active members, down from about ten times that, during its time of glory, before the moronic moderator model was introduced.
This is an actively moderated board. General and somewhat flexible posting guidelines are published in this board's header and revised from time to time. You just violated the most stringent of those guidelines ...
"Disparaging remarks about or to other board contributors is strictly prohibited." I know. Yawn. Too bad you had the disparaging remark removed. Truly hit the spot, didn't it? Hammer spot on the nail, that one was. A real doozie. One of my best ever, I think. Must have really pissed you off cause it was a killer knee slapper!
Generally when I administer a board ban (which is something I do not relish doing) it is of relatively short term duration. You and I have been down this road way too many times, however, so this ban will likely remain in affect for at least the first half of this calendar year. In addition I am doing something I seldom do. I am filing a TOU violation report for a 'personal attack' and yet another incidence of board disruption. Holy cow! That scares the crap out of me! Shaking in my boots! The boogie man will come any second and take me to SI hell, from which there is no return. Oh no! Save me please, SI Gods, anything but the horror of never being able to share a joke on SI, again. What will I do with all my time? Please, please, please SI God's, don't banish me!!!
Do you ever stop to think how ridiculously, idiotically anal your posts seem to sane other? Forget it. Rhetorical question. Of course you don't.
Please do not post a PM to me with the type of vulgarity and profanity you indulged back in November of last year or fill up my private inbox with the serial posting of inanities like you did in December. Should they occur those also will be reported as TOU violations to SI Admin who all justifiably appear to have you on a short leash, so I'd really like to avoid having to do that. Don't sweat it. You're completely off my radar, as soon as I finish picking apart this inane post of yours. As in: go stuff yourself.
I've appreciated many of the contributions you have made to SI throughout the years that we've both been members, have enjoyed many of our exchanges and am a fan of your photographic skills, but I'm appalled by your constant and ongoing disrespect for SI Admins (starting with SI Dave when you became ' done, gone') who work tirelessly on our behalf and fellow contributing members of our community. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quit buttering me and them up. No need. I have absolutely no use for your fake admiration, and they don't need you to crawl up their back cavity any more than you already have.
Prosperous Investing (and/or trading). Same to you. Oh, and grow a sense of humor, already. Laughter is truly the ultimate human achievement. Much better than your coveted, useless SI power. Even better than money. The only thing that beats it is health, which laughter promotes more than any other human activity.
I'd give you my customary finger to close out this post, but I won't cause it would give you too much pleasure to report it. But, consider a virtual finger hoisted in your general direction, anyway.
Over and out. Good grief you can make a one sentence post last a nightmare of paragraphs. |
