Japan is AncientChina at MOS. I went over there as a guest, did some reading, and he’s admitting he messed up about Bib. I’m sure the guys at MOS wish he hadn’t because they would very much like to have Bib. I have a strong feeling Bib isn’t much interested in going to MOS, but of course that’s Bib’s decision.
Since this thread about Bib’s hangers has already been contaminated so much by Japan’s choosing to do so, I’m going to go ahead and say something here about the accusations of Japan(and others at MOS from what I’ve read) that Thunder’s is a place ready to ban somebody at a moment’s notice. In the 6-7 months I’ve been at Thunder’s I’ve seen very little of anybody getting banned. I’ve seen it happen once when somebody walked in the door flaming people with obvious intent, and I’ve seen it happen once when somebody seemed to be so biased against women that they hounded very negatively the ladies in a very serious manner every post they made- the ban didn’t occur at first, but only after relentless following the female posts around.I’ve seen a couple of bans where the person came in posting dick pictures as theirs, and then got caught that they were not theirs. The ban only occurred when it was obvious the person only intended to blame everybody but themselves about the deception.
It’s made fun of that Thunder likes to have the writing readable. There is no point in making a joke about that. I really don’t much care how someone writes, but it does make it easier to read for me when one letter abbreviations aren’t all over the page. If it’s tougher for me, one can only imagine how difficult it makes it for someone who doesn’t speak English as their native language. Also, asking posters to please capitalise their I’s isn’t such a bad thing, it is part of the English language. I don’t really care if somebody capitalizes their I’s or not, but there is nothing wrong with wanting his forum written that. As far as messing up when typing, I know that I and others do all the time with nothing ever said about it. As Thunder has posted himself, it doesn’t have to be perfect, just make an effort is what he asks.
The accusations that Thunder’s censors anything and everything certainly looks like a big exaggeration to me. I haven’t had one post censored or anything and I can’t even think of any other than this with Bib. I’m not saying it hasn’t happened before, just that it can’t be rampant like it is being said it is for me to have trouble recalling one right off. I read at MOS complaints from MOS members about lines being censored out at MOS and entire threads were deleted when mods didn’t like something. I also read DLD disapproves of it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it has been happening. One mod admitted to the member that he did it and told the member so what about it, that DLD isn’t going to do anything to him for deleting. To finger point at this forum that leaves are in the yard, when the yard there has leaves in it, looks wrong to me.
It’s a very good bet that Bib leaving has left, not only the members here, but also Thunder and all of the mods here down about it. And you can bet it’s because he was/is a friend to them, not just because he was a fantastic guru. I’ve seen it happen several times in my life, that when politics or religion are discussed people get very passionate about it. There is nothing more likely to cause trouble in debates than politics and religion. Long before internet discussions even existed, I’ve seen people get very angry at each other over these issues and then feel bad about it later. The passion just got the better of them at the moment. This isn’t a Thunder’s thing or a MOS thing, this is everywhere. I wasn’t following the thread that triggered Bib’s leaving and therefore know little detail as to it.
I almost didn’t post all this. Exaggerating things to put Thunder’s down isn’t the way to have a great forum yourself is it? DLD is passionate about freedom of speech, and I commend him on that. Still, that freedom isn’t worth much if it isn’t fair.