posted February 28, 2009 07:09 AM         

i don't blame you staying in doors, i would if i lived in australia. those backpack serial killers creep me out.

posted February 28, 2009 12:56 PM           

I wanted to let you know I don't appreciate your post. I never seriously blamed my sensitivity on my moon, I was just trying to lighten the vibe of the thread, which may or may have not been successful. And you getting passive agressive about that is kind of odd to me.

And I don't know what you mean as me trying to "act" innocent and have an attitude, as I am confident that throughout my membership here at LL, I have been nothing but respectful to everyone. I don't have room to judge anyone or act like the Qu33n 0f LinD4L4nD, and no, I'm not saying you do.

It seems to me that you're trying to start problems here, and if you've seen my attitude before in 2007, it's not here anymore. Didn't I just say that I was gone for a year? I think I'm entitled to my opinion of LL's changes.
If you were looking for an aplology, sorry.

posted February 28, 2009 02:06 PM         

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This is the same sort of thing that VirgOh did on my "Ouch! Scorpio stung Lion" thread. To me, it's a blatent example of a place where moderators ought to intervene and politely suggest that if the poster, in this case, VirgOh, is not interested in the thread topic and cannot/will not connect his/her posts to the topic, he/she should leave or begin a separate thread.

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if mods can't be bothered to stop these kinds of posts, then how can one expect this forum to be clean of nonconstructive/off topic/antagonizing posts/posters = missing 'the love'

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i don't see why no moderator stopped the bird brain thing escalating to the statement of fol calling one a 'bird brain'.

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lets get something straight, FOL got banned. by an admin. where does the moderator come in? shouldn't he have been warned first? then maybe it would have prevented him from being banned, and prevented him from continuing to post like he did. what im trying to say is, we should have moderators warning people.

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I know some of you are here a lot (daily, hourly in some Aussie’s cases ;-)). But do you seriously believe you could read every post in every thread, watching people’s posts to warn for misbehavior?? And who is going to clearly define “misbehavior” that deserves warnings?? What I might consider going too far, or even nasty, someone else might shrug and say ‘whatever.’ We have the rules and the guidelines set down by Randall, but nothing more specific than that. People are called a lot worse names than “birdbrain” in the Global Unity forum here at LL, but that forum is looser than the rest – we appreciate and expect a little more consideration and manners from posters here in the Astrology forum. But every time the Mods come in and “warn” people, we get cries of outrage from the up-in-arms members about CENSORSHIP. We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t :-((

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Seriously, there is an overabundance of time being spend on COMPLAINTS at this point, instead of people just showing tolerance and expressing gratitude for being on here.

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There may be fantastic people with valuable astrological insights who don't like to complain, but have been turned off of the site by abusive, "pot stirring", off-topic and irrelevent posts, and left.

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There clearly is a problem. "Distress" posts like babbeefoxx's happen quite regularly which indicates something is wrong. Yes, Lindaland has lost it a bit.

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sunshine_lion ~

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if children need more structure, they should play in a more highly supervised playground.

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posted February 28, 2009 02:29 PM         

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That’s a bit hurtful to insinuate that we “can’t be bothered”, but so be it. The Admin people at this website expect you to be adults and converse within the guidelines and rules that you agreed to when you registered. If you feel that a poster here is flouting those rules, then write IMMEDIATELY to the forum’s Moderator or to Randall the Webmaster, at webmaster@linda-goodman.com .

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i just want to say, i understand everything you said, and i don't disagree. im sorry thats what i insinuated. i don't really believe you guys "can't be bothered" its just at the time of writing the post, it just.. felt the way. because fist and other posts like his had been around for a while now. is lalalinda active here? i mean, this topic if anything kind of proves why i felt the way i did when writing that. its 270+ posts, half full of arguments, and it took alot of time before a moderator like you and mystic to come in and say something that actually helped this situation. i mean, this is the most popular forum of the linda land isnt it? maybe two moderators would be more appropriate for -as you pointed out- so many posts.(or a second more active moderator, because 3 mods have seen this mumbojumbo, but the moderator of this forum is currently nowhere to be seen)

as for fol, all i mean was, he could have done with a warning a few times before the bird brain thing. not necessarily "ban" threats, but just to prompt him to stop abusing topics with sarcastic nonconstructive posts.

do i think he would've listened? i don't know, probably not. but for how long he was posting like that i think something should have been said to him.

as for the censorship, it is a hard line to draw. but i'd like to make it clear, that there is a difference between some one sharing an actual light joke, after some discussion has gone on (thats been on topic) that the person has participated in.

compared to some one who consciously out of nowhere, joins into the topic (adding nothing to the topic previously discussion wise) and just posting (a) stupid nonconstructive comment(s), that may be sarcastic and antagonizing.

and as you have seen in this topic, people aren't liking it.

now, some people will dress this up as an "opinion" or "statement" and say these comments aren't insults. but they quite simply are. you can dress them up however much as you want, but they are not offensive by opinion (an example would be me saying the "moderators can't be bothered"). but they are rude and nonconstructive, and only provoke further rudeness or hostility.

in future, i will 'email' the moderator, and take your advice. we should all be adults around here -as you said- but as you can see, not all of us consistently behave like adults. (including me, but give me a break, im 19, im still learning, i aint in my 30's or anything.)

posted February 28, 2009 02:55 PM         

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is lalalinda active here? i mean, this topic if anything kind of proves why i felt the way i did when writing that. its 270+ posts, half full of arguments, and it took alot of time before a moderator like you and mystic to come in. i mean, this is the most popular forum of the linda land isnt it? maybe two moderators would be more appropriate for as you pointed out - so many posts.

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I can't speak for other Mods, but I'm content to let people speak their piece. This is a Forum: that means, meeting/dicussion/debate, and Free Speech rules here. And *even* people like FOL get to speak their piece (for awhile, until they run afoul of the rules) because Randall is by nature a tolerant and forgiving person. There's one ex-member who was allowed to come back at least 10 times under different usernames -- and every time, she sabotaged herself and got kicked off again (a prime example of not learning one's lesson)

This place is not like astro.com's forum nor astrologyweekly's forum -- and members from those forums who are unhappy with the constant supervision/surveillance often join here because we ARE expected to behave like adults and take responsibility for our own actions towards others here, instead of being babysat.

If there is ever a problem on a thread, or offensive posts, then PLEASE write to a Mod -- ANY Mod -- or Randall, and it will be dealt with. You DO have recourse. Randall is here every day, even if you don't see him
All you have to do to write to *any* Mod is go to their forum and click on the hyperlink of their name.

posted February 28, 2009 03:29 PM         

i don't really check transits, i just go with the flow, and let them do there thing, unless i want to see if any transits will effect any important events.

are you implying something about my personality at the moment..?

posted February 28, 2009 03:43 PM         

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** Randall is here every day, even if you don't see him **
oooooo ((((( cue ethereal music ))))) .. :-))

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posted February 28, 2009 04:45 PM         

is this gonna be a lecture about me though? if it is, i only appreciate constructive lectures.

posted February 28, 2009 05:05 PM         

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** Maybe "Jaws" music would be more appropos, **
either way .. just had me thinking of a description for god .. is all ;-))

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ROFL!

posted February 28, 2009 06:35 PM         

<been let down>

whats all your excuses?