Nmysys wrote: Now SC. Apparently you spoke to someone else in the Tea Party about posting in OUR forum,
No, I spoke to you too, and
you provided input on how to open it up - I bought you lunch at that meeting that I requested when we discussed the Tea Party Forum and how to start making it useful, after I became owner and started addressing items that had been languishing.
and yes, you are the owner, but you are proving to me that because of your left leaning political bent, that you spin things the way you want them to be interpreted. I personally resent that.
Show me some concrete evidence of me "spinning" what was discussed in the Tea Party meetings. I resent your implication that I have an agenda and am using you for it. I sat in that meeting, and several others, writing/typing exactly what was said - I didn't change any words, nor did I attribute them to a specific individual, if I couldn't remember the details specifically. Up until now, absolutely no one has had any issues, except for a few minor clarifications, with what I wrote about the meetings, and you yourself praised me for my accuracy - so what's changed all of a sudden?
I also don't think that you should be taking sides in Political discussions. You have shown me that you are doing so.
You suggested this to me at that same lunch meeting I mentioned above, and you have yet to provide a rational explanation as to why I must just because I'm owner now.
And why that rule should apply to me, but not to yourself.
What you see as me taking sides is me sticking up for my beliefs, but there are in no way shape or form cut-and-dried, march down the party line, liberal versus conservative. You see what you want to see and ignore the rest. I have demonstrated over and over that I hold dear values that are core to both ideologies, that I am open to differing viewpoints and will change my mind if it makes sense to do so, and that I cannot be placed into a box - you just keep putting me there because it's easier for you to do so and you seem to have trouble reconciling that people can be more complicated than black/white, liberal/conservative, yin/yang.
And frankly, what is wrong with taking sides in political discussions? Do you somehow think that it biases me as to how I treat other posters from an owner's point of view? If that's the case then I am extremely offended - I have spoken at length that I hold myself to the highest of ethical standards and integrity, that my opinions as a poster/individual are separate from how I operate my business, and that all members have the rules applied to them equally, absolutely no special favors/passes are granted to anyone, nor is anyone unfairly treated just because I don't agree with them politically or personally. Just because
you don't like what someone else posts (eg LJ or VL) and their post doesn't get moderated for content,
just the same as yours doesn't get moderated for content, that it means that I give them a pass? That's
you trying to apply different standards to posters that
you don't like - that may be how you operate but
don't you dare assume that it's how I operate. We're not here to play Mommy and moderate to make sure y'all play nice with each other; this is an adult real-world forum. You speak to others how you'd like to be spoken to, and be prepared to accept the return if you don't - that's the whole point of there
not being heavy-handed moderation here. You have to moderate yourself, or expect that others will call you out. We only make sure that members are protected from personal information being posted, threats being made, or racial or gender slurs being used against them and they
all get called to fix it, regardless of beliefs, friendships, or position.
I'm sorry that you wish to interpret my words and actions the way you do, I had always thought we were actually friends, but I can see that means something different to you than it does to me.
Funny, but I assumed that stabbing someone in the back pretty much means that you aren't friends, but that's a separate matter for private discussion. We do agree, though, that your definition of friendship and mine absolutely do differ.
