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09-25-08, 05:01 PM
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09-25-08, 05:12 PM
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"Unless he was racing there was no way he could match my speed."
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09-25-08, 05:17 PM
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This thread has jumped the shark
09-25-08, 05:39 PM
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The bigger problem I have is that you're sending moderators to enforce rules in a community that they are not a part of.
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How are we supposed to just sit back and accept their enforcement when we have no idea who they are? This ties back to the concept of respect: I'm not going to respect you if you show up in my community one day and start enforcing rules which, up to your arrival, had been allowed to slide. And then you wave your badge (i.e. blue star) in my face and expect that I'll acquiesce just because you've been given authority from some autocratic father figure?
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How are we supposed to just sit back and accept their enforcement when we have no idea who they are? This ties back to the concept of respect: I'm not going to respect you if you show up in my community one day and start enforcing rules which, up to your arrival, had been allowed to slide. And then you wave your badge (i.e. blue star) in my face and expect that I'll acquiesce just because you've been given authority from some autocratic father figure?
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09-25-08, 06:19 PM
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As much as Jim is taking the heat, I don't believe he was a "lone gunman". I think he was enforcing official policy (in a uniquely hamfisted way) and is getting thrown under the bus since the rest of the team has now realized that not only was the execution a blunder, the policy itself was ill-conceived in the first place.
09-25-08, 06:22 PM
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It was me. I admit it. But it was my truck not a bus. I wanted to make sure the suspension was what I paid for. Sorry, Jim. You don't mind, do ya?
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09-25-08, 06:23 PM
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09-25-08, 06:29 PM
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OK, thanks everyone for the feedback. It really was appreciated. I'm unsticking and closing the thread now, since it's not really doing anything other than entertainment value now.
There were quite a few valid points made, and I was reading....I hear what you're saying people.
Again, thank you very much for your feedback. If you ever need anything, PM or email me, and we'll see what I can do to assist you.
There were quite a few valid points made, and I was reading....I hear what you're saying people.
Again, thank you very much for your feedback. If you ever need anything, PM or email me, and we'll see what I can do to assist you.
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. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Fredrick Nietzsche
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant
