Well Spoken Xarax.
With all due respect, I suggest that you better reflect on both the actual
issue and the "speaking" you claim is so well done here. Yes, this debacle
went on too long and way beyond the pale of civility and reasonable
behavior; if anything, the action is overdue, which we may understand
comes from exactly a reluctance to be heavy handed that is here decried.
The formal intervention then of the Webmistress deleting content from a post
was then at the heart of this storm when a polite request to remove it would have been
both appropriate and adequate.
Omitting that, in the particular case, the very post itself was an
issue beyond the "theft" of any image : it was inflammatory
about the knot AND it's poster; it was purported to be a warning
of some dangerous knot whose dangers were imagined; it was
a warning unneeded (the context of the image was thread with
prior images that are clear & uncontroversial); it was a warning
out of place --not in the thread with the supposed dangerous image,
but in a separate thread (which well might be ignored by someone
supposedly harmed by that image in the other thread)--; and it was
shown to be false in denying that the image was as labeled.
Then, beyond all this, there was the repeated posting of the
most bizarre nature, invoking demons and excrement and so
on, ascribing scatological and other derogatory attributes to
those of a contrary opinion. Do not pretend that this was just
some tit-for-tat exchange --it wasn't.
The situation had gone quiet - why did you have to go stir it up again...?
Because doing nothing --even compared with a slow reaction-- is a bad
precendent. We are (fortunately) not well tested in such matters. As Roo
had earlier opined, we do not have Rules of Behavior posted and sworn to;
and we have not needed them, for the most part, which is as one hopes.
When will you folks learn that when we vote for you to do things for us, we do not at the same time give our Forum or our Guild to you, we hand you power to run the thing FOR US - to meet OUR satisfaction - not your own.
When we do WHAT?! "our Forum"? "to meet OUR satisfaction"?!
--would this implied us be forum members or IGKT members, or the
small intersection of the two sets?
Here is the Carrot
-- PLEASE reconsider you action; do not implement your temporary ban, and withdraw your "Stern Warning".
You do not need to create an issue here - the storm is over and if you leave things alone will soon be forgotten. </Carrot>
Derek
There is quite some vitamin deficiency in your offered vegetable.
"The storm is over,"and yet already there is now a "lioness" to add to the other fabled characters
we were presented with not all so long ago --which maybe linger on the tip of
someone's fingers ready to reappear?
>
... I do not hope anymore that my case will be understood and fairly judged...And the troubling issue, still couched in terms that defy reason, is
yet raised again --as though a warning was denied (even unfounded
and out of place, it was not --but went well beyond warning). That
sure begs the question of how this entire issue about an image has
been understood; and there should be no question at this stage!
Just as we should not have doubts about how to tell time.
--dl*
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