Important Question re: Site Operation

[abcrystcats]

Your response seems unclear to me.

On the one hand you say that

"You laugh at the insults because they really are laughable.

Then, you point out the insults to me if I missed them and I'll put the posts in the Fireplace & Dumpster"

and on the other hand you say that,

"People need to respect each other or they need to post on someone else's website. Not mine."

These alternatives are in conflict. People AREN'T respecting each other and they remain on the website. Why?

You cannot police the entire site by yourself looking for insults 24 hours a day to dump them in the Fireplace. Even if you could, you'd be doctoring the symptom and not the illness. That is what's repeatedly been pointed out, here.

As for treating the insults as humor -- Why again? They are not humor. They are not meant to be treated as humor. They are vicious, derisive, insulting attacks directed at specific individuals.

I am not mistaken when I say that Perezoso deliberately seeks my posts out. The latest example is located under the "Syria" heading in culture.

You say that the people who are disrespectful need to leave, but they are NOT leaving and they are continuing to be disrespectful.
Then you say that the rest of us need to just laugh it off. Which one is it, Doreen? Which one do you want us to do?

There is a fourth alternative, too. I am quite content posting at Arcanum. It isn't as challenging as here, but there are no hecklers, and there's no ambivalence about what would happen if a heckler appeared. I like Studio Eight, but I do not like the "love me, love my dog" philosophy you seem to have adopted towards your troll.
My decision is made. This is no longer a pleasant place to be for me. When or if it does become a pleasant place again, I'll be happy to return.

[knip]

bah

this is a great place cat...it is simply too easy to ignore the crap...these boards are filled with so much...the negativity comprises less than 5% of what is here...that more than makes up for the troll-lacking rigidity of archaic cafe

just ignore it, cat...it's very easy

[perezoso]

When some cyber -smurf yips "troll", he/she demonstrates his/her irrationality, lack of knowledge of the First Amendment, and general intellectual incompetence .....the problem with this site is allowing a hick like Mr. Trash any place to vent his crass, peasant idiocies

[Doreen Peri]

You say that the people who are disrespectful need to leave, but they are NOT leaving and they are continuing to be disrespectful.

Then you say that the rest of us need to just laugh it off. Which one is it, Doreen? Which one do you want us to do?

There is a fourth alternative, too. I am quite content posting at Arcanum. It isn't as challenging as here, but there are no hecklers, and there's no ambivalence about what would happen if a heckler appeared. I like Studio Eight, but I do not like the "love me, love my dog" philosophy you seem to have adopted towards your troll.
My decision is made. This is no longer a pleasant place to be for me. When or if it does become a pleasant place again, I'll be happy to return.

Sorry you don't like it here, Ms. Cat. I post on both places and a couple more sites, too. I like variety.

I'm sorry you find my verbiage inconsistant. To me, it makes perfect sense and it's about as simple as anything I have ever said.

You're welcome to go anywhere you like on the internet. I hope you find a spot which meets your needs. You're also welcome here whenever you want to come here.

And if you have a problem with the way I run the site, there's nothing I can do about it. I do the best I can.

If you think you can do better, maybe you should try opening up your own bulletin board. phpbb is free Open Source software. All you need is a URL which costs only $35 a year and a host which costs only $8 a month and you can install it. Easy as pie.

Best wishes to you.

[Doreen Peri]

perezoso... the term is correct in the past tense. You WERE our troll. You trolled these boards under many names and I deleted all of them. Please discontinue the insults. Please talk about writing or art or philosophy or theater or music or anything else related to the arts.

[perezoso]

That's a lie, dear. Want to bet? You are obsessed. CHeck on the IPs and email addys. It was probably some LK person or Gomertrash. I had one previous name and that's it--some of us have real lives and professions to attend to.

[Axanderdeath]

perezoso... the term is correct in the past tense. You WERE our troll. You trolled these boards under many names and I deleted all of them. Please discontinue the insults. Please talk about writing or art or philosophy or theater or music or anything else related to the arts.

doreen , check it:

>....

I cal it less than later!

[Doreen Peri]

IP#s mean nothing. The troll used an IP disguising website.

Whatever.

You know it and I know it and you've admitted it to me before.

Let's move forward, shall we?

Let's talk about the arts.

I'm going to lock this thread and a couple of others.

I'm finished with the discussion.

I said what I wanted to say. It's over.