0n (28 May 05) James Bradley wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 JB> 05-14-05  11:06, Cindy Haglund told James Bradley about Hello!?

 JB>  How do, Cindy?

 JB> Come to think about it, the moderator seems incommunicado.  tap.>

 CH> Well maybe he sees we're behaving so well...m

 JB> Ya, that's the ticket! 

 We could change that! Just to test!  nah....
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 JB> When I first started on Fido, we had a crachety moderator on a
 JB> city-wide Gardening echo. When I wrote "Crotching" one
day to describe
 JB> a trees growth tendency, she hit the roof, *it* hit the fan, and she
 JB> exposed herself as a numbskull. Ever since, I'm rather reluctant to
 JB> push limits.

 CH> Hey! There's lots of those. Burn outs I call 'em. A wise former
 CH> moderator confided to me 'when you find yourself taking yourself and
 CH> the echo too seriously (i.e: reading into what's not there)- it's time
 CH> to be honest with yourself. Either lighten up or find a new hobby. :)
 CH> He did.

 JB> What are you *trying* to tell me, Cindy? 

 Glad we don't have one of those here. :) Ya know one echo I was in
ran just fine un moderated. Then a moderator was appointed for some
reason and then that's when trouble started. hmmm.

This is /funny/. Not in Fido but in a Yahoo group. Very small group had
just started on a rather narrow theme. There were oh four of us. We would
start a tread, being civil and keeping to the point. Then out of the blue
came the monthly RULES. We all thought at first we (individually) were
being moderated. We felt we didn't need those rules. In fact the posting
disrupted the ongoing thread. We started talking about not needing
those rules posted instead. The moderator felt otherwise. The group died.

Frankly I think the rules should only be posted when they're needed.
Either when someone gets out of line or for new users.

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 JB> BTW, d'ya hear the definition of expert?

 CH> YES! "Someone from out of town." By authority of' Sir Tagline. :)

 JB> I've worked for a few here.  Maybe I need to move to your town!
 
 Sure! Come on down. There's tons  of spanking new houses needing
buyers. TX is one place houses ore not doubling and tripling in the
space of two years or less.
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 CH> Oh you could provide your convincing evidence but it won't matter.
 CH> Because the god wanabes can never be wrong. Never ever . YOU are wrong
 CH> always always ever see.. That is how it goes with that sort.

 JB> What are you *trying* to say? <-;

 Thank you for asking. :) I guess what I mean is while this country is
 supposed to be a Democracy it's various components parts are not.

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 CH> OH btw a long time ago in now defunct echo- (a tale of truth and
 CH> neverendlly amusing; a favorite of mine retold many a time too often
 CH> perhaps- there was a self appointed forum police guy. Once a fellow
 CH> poster and I exchanged "LYLAS" in our sign off. We were friends. We
 CH> knew each other in 'real' life you see. Well this guy didn't bother to
 CH> ask what it meant in the way you would in polite society. No. He
 CH> inferred it meant something naughty. (Gee what gutter is HIS mind in?)

 CH> Well when we told him what it meant he didn't say anything but I
 CH> imagine he was embarrassed. Instead of taking his medicine like adult
 CH> he became even MORE intolerant of whatever we said. ha.

 JB> Did you laugh real hard?

 Not really. More to dismay as he took it so darn seriously.

 CH> LYLAS means "love you like a sister".

 JB> But when you told "him" you "LYLAS", was this
because of an operation?


 What operation might that be. :) OOOOOH.. hahaha... maybe! Maybe he
thought it meant lost your ...  um.. ahem..


Cindy

 JB> ... Be Politically Correct: Shut Up and Don't Think!

 Borrowed! :)

... All great truths began as blasphemies.

--- PPoint 3.01