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[BTFLCHLD]

Well, I am back to work today after an extended visit to hell. I can now visit the ledge more often as that is generally when I would post... while "working."

I hope all is well with everyone.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

Well, I am back to work today after an extended visit to hell.

Wisconsin?

[#1LiddyBuckFan]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

Well, I am back to work today after an extended visit to hell. I can now visit the ledge more often as that is generally when I would post... while "working."

I hope all is well with everyone.

We miss you!!

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by petep9000

So it must have been a different Michelle then, that agreed with the board mods that the whole thread needed to be shut down and deleted. Or she's just blowing smoke.

oh, well they were talking about michele, the owner of the site. note 1 L, where mine has 2. I would have never agreed that it needed to be shut down. I was the one posting in it!!

Originally Posted by Sarah

Let's restart the "this or that" thread right here.

Hey Michelle, which is more gross? Hominy Poop or Hominy Vomit?

where is that damn thing?? I'll go find it.

hmmm...that's a toughie. I'm fairly confident hominy is not going to do vomit or poop any favors, so i'll go with hominy vomit. i can sometimes deal with poop, but i can't deal with vomit at all

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by buckymcnix

I have a couple questions.

For warnings, does someone have to complain or do the mods just go through all the posts and find what they think deserves a warning?

From what I can tell so far, it's a mixture of both. Normally it begins with a complaint or reported post from someone, but sometimes it can be something a mod stumbles across.

Originally Posted by buckymcnix

Can we have a complete list of Mods?
Quite a few mods have stepped down and i saw in one of the threads that it still may say "moderator" or "super moderator" by their names for awhile.

I put this here since this is the thread that caused the suspension.

All of the current mods are listed in the lower right hand corner of each forum. Edited to add: http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=34724

Originally Posted by petep9000

So it must have been a different Michelle then, that agreed with the board mods that the whole thread needed to be shut down and deleted. Or she's just blowing smoke.

I was talking about Michele, the owner of the board. Listen, in the big scheme of things, is it really that big of a deal that this particular thread was removed? I appreciate that you didn't post the link, but for most people, curiosity would compel one to find it- I did it at work (like a dumbass)! I'm sorry that you feel so strongly about it. As I said in my earlier post, I will explain a deleted thread to everyone, rather than just deleting it.

[LiamMcConville]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

i'm with you curiosity got the best of me and I googled it like a dumbass

do I blame you for that? slightly J/K


but now i've had hours of entertainment watching the reactions and I have you to thank for that.


it takes very little to offend me. very little. I might get pissed, but actuallly offended? no.


unless someone threatens to string me up and up and bludgeon me within an inch of my life. that distresses me a bit.

Subtle, well played.

[petep9000]

You know what? I don't feel 'strongly' about a lezbo scat video. What I do feel strongly about is this notion that just even hinting that such a thing exists out there on the web will cause the chiffonhead flock to compulsively Google for it, as if they have no mind of their own.

Everybody knows how easy it is to find shocking material on the web, and guess what- those two crack-heads weren't the first two to ever be filmed in a situation as gross as that nor will they be the last. I think you and whoever else moderates this forum just merely called more attention to it. And like I said in my (unanswered) reply to your finger-waving warning to me, I dont' see you censoring anyone here when they pollute their posts with 'F' bombs.

Originally Posted by jannieC

From what I can tell so far, it's a mixture of both. Normally it begins with a complaint or reported post from someone, but sometimes it can be something a mod stumbles across.



All of the current mods are listed in the lower right hand corner of each forum. Edited to add: http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=34724



I was talking about Michele, the owner of the board. Listen, in the big scheme of things, is it really that big of a deal that this particular thread was removed? I appreciate that you didn't post the link, but for most people, curiosity would compel one to find it- I did it at work (like a dumbass)! I'm sorry that you feel so strongly about it. As I said in my earlier post, I will explain a deleted thread to everyone, rather than just deleting it.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by petep9000

And like I said in my (unanswered) reply to your finger-waving warning to me, I dont' see you censoring anyone here when they pollute their posts with 'F' bombs.

I thought I had replied to everything you directed at me- not sure what I missed.

People have been very strongly warned here lately for using profanities. You seem like you just want to argue with me and I don't get it. Move it to PM if you have anything else to say to me.

[strandinthewind]

^^^^

I think the profanity thing depends on what's going on and where it is used. I think it is so silly for someone to deliberately type tha ctual word when something like "fukc" gets the point across just as well. So, when someone actually spells out the word, they know the rules and that is that - they have no one to thank but themselves if they called out for it or banned. If they want to curse, then they need to get their own board with their own rules

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Wisconsin?

Right on brother! Especially Green Bay!

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

^^^^

I think the profanity thing depends on what's going on and where it is used. I think it is so silly for someone to deliberately type tha ctual word when something like "fukc" gets the point across just as well. So, when someone actually spells out the word, they know the rules and that is that - they have no one to thank but themselves if they called out for it or banned. If they want to curse, then they need to get their own board with their own rules

well, **** gets censored

and I agree to a point. i'm against censoring, but it's not my board. I try to, but every now and again i drop the f bomb. it happens.


and jannie-you know you had to be broken in correctly within your first few weeks. you didn't think this was gonna be a free ride,did you?? read my sig. do it.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

well, **** gets censored

and I agree to a point. i'm against censoring, but it's not my board. I try to, but every now and again i drop the f bomb. it happens.


and jannie-you know you had to be broken in correctly within your first few weeks. you didn't think this was gonna be a free ride,did you?? read my sig

It's all good, Michelle- like I just told another Ledgie- it is only the internet, right?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

. . . i'm against censoring, . . . .

a little SELF censorship goes a long, long way

Also, as I have pointed out many times in the past, the only legal right to free speech is the Constitution's language in the First Amendment, which states (emphasis supplied) :

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

All state Constitutions have a similar phrase. Thus, the law states that free speech exists only in the context of the state (which is unclearly defined in the subsequent caselaw) cannot prohibit speech. A truly private entity, such as this board, has no such legal restriction. So, the owner of the board can legally prohibit speech. For those interested, here is a treatise or two on the issue.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/....aspx?id=17979

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment


As an aside, the Second Amendment clearly confers on a well regulated militia, not an individual, the right to keep and bear arms, to wit:

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

But, people cannot understand basic sentence construction and want to give that right to the people as a Constitutional right, which makes it harder for the state to regulate. I totally get that the idea of outlawing arms in 1776 did not exist. But, that does not mean the Const. grants the right in its language. But, the same people who want strict constuction of the Const. to deny the judge made "right to privacy," which does not exist in the Const. and is the basis for Roe, are the same people who want to say the Second Amendment implies the right to bear arms, when it does no such thing. Oh well, what are ya gonna do

But, the gun people are just as ridiculously and blindly rabid as the pro-choicers.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

a little SELF censorship goes a long, long way

simmer down. if you had read the rest of my post, I said:

Originally Posted by me

I try to, but every now and again i drop the f bomb. it happens.

it was implied the "i try to" was "i try to censor myself". just in case no one caught on to that.

[AliceLover]

I must say the ledge has been kind of slow lately, but I have had nothing to say. College is busy, so I just mostly read, but I do try and make it a daily stop, even if I just read the threads.

Jim