Re: Repost in the Correct Echo re: Moderation (fm All Politics)   
     By: Lee Lofaso to Damon A. Getsman on Thu Apr 11 2013 21:42:22   
      
    > Here's an idea for you, Damon.  Start a new echo, naming yourself   
    > as moderator.  You get to name this new echo anything you want.   
    > You also get to write whatever rules you want for this new echo   
    > of yours.  Nobody will question your command, as you will be   
    > the commander.  Even Bob K. will acknowledge you as commander.   
      
   	Wow, what an innovative idea.  Perhaps I'll do that.  Putting on    
   my jackboots of ultimate free speech and nonoppression in moderation    
   sounds like a joy.   
      
    > The one who will not be named can also do the same thing.   
      
   	I'm sure he'll be overjoyed, as well.   
      
    > The question of the day is, what the hell is stopping you?   
    > It certainly isn't me.  And it most certainly isn't Bob K.   
    > So what is it?  Can you tell me?  Or is it that you simply   
    > do not want to?   
      
   	I think you overestimate the amount of care that I have invested    
   in this.  I engage in the banter that I do because I see an injustice and    
   I want to comment on it.  I'm not so naive as to think that it will be    
   corrected.  It's a good wind-up for my day when I'm getting spooled up for    
   all of the red tape and useless bullshit that life in this society has to    
   throw at me for the day-- drinking my coffee and engaging in really    
   juvenile debate with people that have years (that they BRAG about)    
   invested in picking up the same rotten glob of fly-egg infested feces over    
   and over again and throwing it back and forth at the same people over and    
   over and over again.  It hasn't ceased to amuse me yet, it scratches that    
   irritated itch that I get when I see it, and like I said, it passes the    
   time while I'm caffinating.   
   	Why don't I start my new echo?  Because anything that I might    
   start it about it already covered in the echo topics that I already have,    
   and population of FidoNet pretty much goes to prove right now that    
   people's needs are already met by the echoes in place.  It'd be a fool's    
   venture to try to recruit sysops to pick up the new echo and to populate    
   it and then begin gathering enough topical critical-mass to get the echo    
   self-sustaining.   
   	Why don't you go into detail on why my protesting of juvenile    
   shit-slinging festivals and piss-poor moderation irritates you enough to    
   try to sell me on an idea that you, surely, with your time invested in    
   FidoNet, already know is destined to fail?   
      
    > Maybe you are a newbie, and do not know how to set up a new echo.   
    > That could be it.  Too embarrassed to ask how to do it, having your   
    > own pride.  I understand.  Well, here's how to do it -   
      
   	Pretty sure I could figure it out, bruh.  I'll just delete the    
   rest of your benevolent tutorial here and not waste more of both of our    
   time responding to that crap.   
      
   [snip]   
      
    > See how simple that is?   
      
   	It was really simple!  I don't know how I'll ever thank you    
   enough.  Seriously, though, why does my conduct here stick in your craw so    
   bad?  Aside from the sarcasm that I heavily dosed this post with prior to    
   this point, I _AM_ really interested in the answer to that question.   
      
      
   -The opinions expressed are not necessarily an advocation of any of the   
   aforementioned ideologies, concepts, or actions.  We still have the freedom of   
   speech, for now, and I enjoy using it in a satirical or ficticious manner to   
   amuse myself-   
      
   "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a   
   revolutionary act." --  George Orwell   
      
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