My Fellow Deletees and The Cyberbullied Sisters

Shokk .. if I believed what you're saying to be true, I would 'buck up.'  But I sincerely don't think that's the case at issue.  I don't believe the woman/group you're talking about is behind the deletions.  There is no reason to think that.  What happened on the Circle thread was years ago.  Everyone has moved on.

Bren

Bren yes it is...........shokk

shokk:  Who has that much power that they can destroy two entire forums or would want to?  Unless you explain yourself, I think you could be opening a can of worms you can't control.  Why can't we just let things be and just make a truce between the two groups not to interfere with each other.  If this person is a member of both groups, we should be told but the insinuations do not help.

Medigal .. the person Shokk is referring to is not a member of any other site.  She's a member of BCO only.

Bren

Bren do you happen to still have that old yahoo site by chance?.....if you do can you make it private by password only???????

and Bren this is a message to you.......I am sorry about the way I treated you at facebook.....as you can tell I too have been hurt by all of this....we do need to talk away from all this other stuff....but we really could use your help......please think about.......and I don't want to lose our friendship at cc or any other place......shokk

Alpal and everyone..........we are going to have to go back and work all this out between each other later..........please believe me.......that includes my side as well as you ladies to the left of us.....

 I personally am really tired of the hacking and deleting chatter........we need to try and focus our chemo induce brains to work together as a team........shokk

Shokk .. I'll think about the YUKU site ... don't even know if I remember how to get in there.

We're cool .. by the way.

hugs,

Bren

Alpal I am sorry but I haven't been to the other site very much in the last couple of days.........I will not speak for my comrades or tell them what to say or to think or post or anything else.....but Alpal you have to believe me this really has nothing to do with what is said in the last couple of days.....

we really need to move on and work together as a team.......is anyone getting blue reinstated?....who else was deleted yesterday......

and ladies look at my tagline........

I am serious about us all working together......I don't want to stop Canada anymore.....shokk

Guys I am really sorry but I have to get off the computer for a couple of hours......I have something I have to do.......Bren please check your facebook.........and check in with Barbara.......she has a request....shokk

There is a lot Melissa can do. 

I think the last 2 episodes have gotten serious enough that she is going to have to do something to track down the offenders.  There are liability issues for BCO when it reaches the level it has recently. 

Getting another brouhahaha started ... just pointed at somebody else ... is not going to help the situation.  Again IMO

We are taking care of things right now, working on teasing apart all the issues.

Best,

Melissa and the BCO team

Thanks Melissa!

Bren

Shokk, I think you are mistaken in attributing this whole mess to one thing (if I understand you correctly, at any rate). Proof is that Athena has been banned for posts she thought she would be banned for three days ago after she lost the edit/delete access to them. Then, the ban happened last night amidst this whole lizard back-and-forth.

And she has no idea what you are referring to regarding an old poster of the old wagons thread, and yet here she is, banned.

The point is, there are too many things going on and no one has the explanation for everything. I know I don't. 

There are a number of subplots that sometimes merge and sometimes do not. Where SOME of them converge is that they are affected by the lack of moderation capabilities, the ease with which posts can be deleted that do not violate rules, etc..... Any other hostility out there, any accusations of hacking, libel or anything else are all being sucked into this no-moderation system. It is also about politics, Muslims, etc... etc... In fact, no matter what the topic or the personal vendetta or the real or perceived crime or false accusation, the thread tying everything together is that we have here a system that allows one to play hide and seek and the law of the jungle prevails.

We can't resolve --on this thread and this web site--  the fact that we disagree, or the fact than one person may have done something wrong to another or that some may have a past. Not having a Facebook account myself, nor being a visitor of any other other bc site, I only know what I read here.   

So whether it is about any of the above mentioned topics, or about something related to cancer, the law of the jungle is what can make a bad situation, whichever it may be, much, much worse. That's why this thread was set up. 

The trouble is that with all of these underlysing sub-plots, it is easy to get sucked into who did what to whom, and thus forget to work on our main goal HERE, which is to achieve more transparency. 

nearcatatonia...then, why can't you just say what you did without hiding behind another name?  

So the ability to remove a post goes beyond the time limit for editing a post?  I'm not seeing the reasoning for that - just seems like a bad idea IMHO.