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So, Don, just when I thought we'd established some sort of workable or even friendly relationship here?

Kevin, Macnerd10, Gregg and me have posted that in their/our opinion cyn is being too hard on PChatperson, but you only pick me up on it? Why?

Where are these "demands" you think I have made? I can only see a polite request including the word please. To save you scrolling up and down in multiple threads, I asked if they would consider please opening up another board where non-computer threads could be started, where they wouldn't be swamped by all the computer threads dumped here (the Lounge) from other boards on this forum. What's so demanding about that?

Or I'll leave? No-one can leave - there's no "delete my account" button. In that sense it's just like Hotel California.

Kevin's right. We all know The Rules now about the Technical boards: NOTHING OFF TOPIC. EVER. What are The Rules for the Lounge though? What are The Rules for Signatures?

If we want FTM to disappear.....we're going about it the right way? Even when four or five active members agree that the Admin remarks in public are too harsh to a 12 year old?

Why invite us all to pursue this privately with the Admin when none of this needed to happen from the start, had said Admin modified PChatperson's signature herself and then emailed PChatperson to explain why. Wouldn't that have been a more discreet, Adminly, course of action?

I doubt if I'm alone here in saying that there was a time in my life when I was a twelve-year-old facing some challenges.

Free speech is a great thing. While censorship has its place, it's important that it is kept to an absolute minimum. I think we'd all agree that the people at the National Coalition Against Censorship do some pretty important work.

The more friendly this place is, and the less "corporate" its feel, the more it will grow.

What's happening here? 10 of the last 25 new posts have been in the Lounge because a 12-year-old is questioning authority. If we were all still running OS 9 or 8.5 we'd all be busy in the Tech fora, but our machines are running so well we are distracted by this nonsense.

I think the mods should worry less about what is happening in the Lounge and more about gaining audience share.

I think 12-year-olds should, if they don't have technical questions about Macs, be out playing with their friends instead of having fights on computers.

But, that's just me.

Oh sure, belittle us OS 9 users.
Kick us while we're humming right along with our G3s.
And ...

What? Computers are my life! And I'm not "questioning athority."

If that's not implying you're bailing, I don't know what is. I'm not debating the issues here, my point is that Cyn deserves not to be berated; without folks like her there is no FTM. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. If you have a problem with Cyn, take it offline.

Outa sight, Doni!

Nope... It wasn't at all like that except for the "Turn off that GARBAGE!" part.

I can't imagine what my dad's reaction might have been had sound levels and quality back then been anywhere near in the range of what they are today.

(Are you old enough to remember when the battery in your portable radio weighed as much as the radio itself?)

Resoundingly seconded!

(The arbitrary and inconsistent manner in which some issues around here have been handled is beginning to remind me of the non-functionality of the average co-op board of directors!)

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cyn, I didn't change my sig because I didn't have time! I was going to...