Fellow "deletees"

Laura .. I responded to him about our county health dental care ... and then the thread was gone.

I go for the "What's On Your Mine" thread.  That way even Melissa will not be able to figure out which threads are off topic.  BTW,  I'm the original "Ya'll" gal.  I once got a great job in New York with a "Famous" Washington person because he heard me say "ya'll" in my interview and was looking for a Southerner to hire as a secretary.  He was Southern too and just missed his "ya'lls". That job was a  ball and he paid me too!

 I think our new thread can be more fun than the one that got deleted if we work it right.  Maybe we can even sneak in a cuss word or two!  (Just kidding, I think!)

I like "What's on Your Mind?" but here are two more:

"Mind Over Matters"

"Mind Your Matters"

with the caveat that any negative references to politicians living, lying or dead are not allowed!

We still have a lot to talk about, don't we?

I just now checked in and saw that the thread was gone.  What a shame.  There was so much information there, and it was ALWAYS provocative.

I'm game to migrate wherever the rest of the group decides to go.

L

Here ya go ladies......

Well, I for one, miss the Health care thread. I found it to be interesting, amusing and I even got some great belly laughs from reading the opinions of some of my more liberal (progressive) sisters. The beauty of it is that we all have our opinions but we do not have to agree.

The biggest issue on the thread was the proselytizers wanting to try to 'convert' the 'pagan' to their way of thinking. Not gonna happen.

I value different opinions and occasionally, I even agree with my more liberal sisters.

So, to whomever the deleters are, try to find something more productive to do with your (obviously too much) time.

Will someone please advise me who is this "Community" that goes out in the dark of night or with dark hoods in the day and deletes posts??  Haven't the Mods understood by now they are trouble makers who want to destroy our threads and the Mods are helping them by allowing this.  That is very unfair to the majority of us who have been trying sooooo hard to post without abusing each other.  When they can find something wrong with "Blue Dalia's" post, we are really in trouble!  Why can't the Mods catch on to what the troublemakers are doing and refuse to join in their sad actions of deleting our posts?  Now I read certain people have been limited to only a small number of posts. What is coming next?  A trip to the woodshed!  BTW, you can hide under different cowardly names all you want but WE know who you are and sooner or later, so will the Mods!

I think we all need to advise Melissa about this.  I'm sure she's at home for the weekend (hope so, anyway, for her sake!) so perhaps we could email her on Monday?

And yes, it's amazing what can be "uncovered" on the server!  The perpetrator/abuser canot hide; there are no secrets anymore.

I am all over letting her know. This is just wrong. The new thread, 'you say goodby' has already had several deleted posts and that is just flat out wrong. We do have freedom of speech in this country (for now) and also we should have it on this forum. This is a safe place for us to let loose and vent and whatever.

So Med, I tried to find Melissa in PM but no dice. Does anyone know how to PM the moderator?

I just sent my message to Melissa.  I went to the My Home at top of screen where topics are listed and it brings up your page info and I found the Moderators sig and there is a place on the side which gives you a chance to PM Melissa.  I clicked it and the box came up for the heading and the message.  I hope you can get yours through also.

BarbaraA, that's a tough one.  IMO, the "5 report-this-posts and you're out" rule does serve a purpose . . . it's a way to quickly remove spam, or delete truly hateful posts (e.g., imagine if one of the Westboro Baptist Church crowd were to lob a few dirtballs here) without burdening the moderator.  But that assumes every member of the community is acting like, well, a member of a community.  Sadly, that's not the case.  Hence the abuse.  I do think the pattern is clear enough at this point for the mod's to step in and identify the abusers. 

Here's a thought: in NYC, the dept of sanitation puts huge, day-glo stickers on the windows of vehicles that are illegally parked on street-cleaning days.  The stickers are virtually impossible to remove (sometimes you'll see where someone has tried, and failed, to scrape it off with a razor).  They say something like "This street could not be cleaned because this vehicle was illegally parked."  We could do something similar here.  Instead of banning folks, how about programming in an indelible tag on all their posts saying something like, "I am a coward who has abused the "report this post" button to harass other members of this community."  In other words: public shaming!! 

Just a thought . . .

When Melissa sees all the deleted folks, she'll be able to tell who keeps hitting the delete button.  I imagine the same names will keep showing up.  I sure hope she doesn't shut down our new thread ... I'm really enjoying it!

Bren

Unfortunately, while I hate the delete and 5 post rule, I also understand why.  Hopefully we can get Melissa's help somehow to solve the problem constructively but I wouldn't want to go back to the days of no 5 post limitation.  It can get really bad where the entire board is shut down by spam or hate messages.

WHAT is this 5 post rule??  I have never understood that.  Do I have to count my posts to each thread and make sure I don't go over 5 each per day?  I am a regular motor mouth and think I go over 5 a lot or maybe not but I thought that was just for newbies.  Thanks!