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leonI just received a very well written, very polite email, from Jason's father. I believe it's truly his father too. It's written as well as any letter on this board has ever been written (not from a very young child).
Here is what it said: (cut and pasted)
I will see to it that Jason understands that he is not allowed to post to your board again. He has been reading the board at my suggestion because of his interest in baseball cards.
He worked all weekend on his post for a school assignment, and I made sure that it was appropriate for your forum. This morning he asked if he could thank everyone because he was so excited by the responses. I did not think that your members would take offense to innocent comments from a child.
Please express my thanks to those that showed enough kindness to respond to Jason's question. To those that choose to doubt everything and everybody, and whose only contribution to your forum is to always assume the worst, I apologize for the intrusion. I am sure they did not think about the Jason's class reading their comments.
I appreciate the problems that you as moderator must handle. Leon, once again, I am sorry that we caused you any inconvenience..
my response...
Hi Mr. Miller
PLease understand that there are many people that come onto our board to start trouble. I am very protective for that reason. I can't tell you how many times people have impersonated other people in order to cause havoc. I almost always check on things just to make sure everything is on the up and up. I do it all of the time. It's my job
Jason is more than welcome on the board but he needs to understand that he is on a board with older grown ups, for the most part. We do have a few teenagers though and they get along quite well. I did have to ban one 11 yr old as he kept doing things I asked him not too. I am sure Jason wouldn't do that. Again, he is more than welcome on the board I was just doing my job. Nothing personal. BTW, it's a pretty fun board most of the times. Sometimes it's rated PG though so you might want to be careful there.....Thanks for your kind email. (you are welcome to join in if you want to also)
best regards
leon