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Old 11-03-2011, 10:53 PM
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Default I conducted myself poorly and I apologize

I want to apologize to Net54 members for exhibiting childish behavior in the thread in which I was attacked by David Atkatz.
The mature thing to do would have been to realize that responding to these attacks by Mr Atkatz would be foolish and would certainly achieve nothing. Eventually, I did realize that I was appearing childish and foolish in reacting to the insults that emanated from David Atkatz in that thread. I should have just chosen to ignore it.
I appreciate the supportive posts and supportive e mails that I have gotten in the aftermath of this. Most especially appreciate the words from someone on this board that I and others have the utmost respect for.
In closing I just want to state that I mistakenly believed the apology that I received by e mail and I should have just ignored the unprovoked attacks that came after the apology. I overreacted.
I was angered by the attack thread, started by Mr Atkatz, which was started after Mr Atkatz had apologized to me and had admitted to me that he had started the initial conflict. I thought it was over after he did that.
But he then chose to extend the conflict, in new threads, and I overreacted. I should have taken the high road immediately, ignoring him completely, and I regret not doing that.
I will not conduct myself in this manner again.
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Old 11-04-2011, 12:00 AM
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We all act badly and have our bad public moments sometimes. It's not a big deal to me.
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Old 11-04-2011, 12:54 AM
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Richard, I don't know you and mean you no disrespect, but may I ask if you will be apologizing for wasting our time with your facetious apology?
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:38 AM
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I want to apologize to Net54 members for exhibiting childish behavior in the thread in which I was attacked by David Atkatz.
The mature thing to do would have been to realize that responding to these attacks by Mr Atkatz would be foolish and would certainly achieve nothing. Eventually, I did realize that I was appearing childish and foolish in reacting to the insults that emanated from David Atkatz in that thread. I should have just chosen to ignore it.
I appreciate the supportive posts and supportive e mails that I have gotten in the aftermath of this. Most especially appreciate the words from someone on this board that I and others have the utmost respect for.
In closing I just want to state that I mistakenly believed the apology that I received by e mail and I should have just ignored the unprovoked attacks that came after the apology. I overreacted.
I was angered by the attack thread, started by Mr Atkatz, which was started after Mr Atkatz had apologized to me and had admitted to me that he had started the initial conflict. I thought it was over after he did that.
But he then chose to extend the conflict, in new threads, and I overreacted. I should have taken the high road immediately, ignoring him completely, and I regret not doing that.
I will not conduct myself in this manner again.
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Richard, I don't know you and mean you no disrespect, but may I ask if you will be apologizing for wasting our time with your facetious apology?
I must concur with Chris.
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Old 11-04-2011, 02:28 AM
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That is very nice of you to say you are sorry.... David is JUST THE WORST isn't he???
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Old 11-04-2011, 06:00 AM
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Personally, I don't think any apology was needed from Richard, but I respect the fact that he did.

I hate to be redundant, but like I wrote, the original thread was dead; it became a non-issue that was just between David and Richard. Why did David have to revive it? Why? There was no reason to revive it.

If I was in Richard's shoes I would have reacted to David's comment, too.
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Old 11-04-2011, 06:02 AM
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We all have our moments but I have to agree with the others who have replied to this. Richard, when you said you were done with that thread earlier, you continued to pile on David while saying you were going to be the grown up in the situation.

Now again, you seem to be doing the same thing while still trying to plead your case for why you were right. I have no disrespect for either of you but if either or both of you really wanted to act like grown ups, you might try calling each other and apologizing to each other and work it out like men instead of battling on a message board. Just a suggestion.

I didn't vote in the poll, mainly because there was not an option for two people who had a disagreement to work it out. That would be my vote.

I honestly don't mean any disrespect to either of you, it just seems like it is time to step back and think about this. Someone always has to be the bigger person in a disagreement to actually start moving forward.

IMO, it's not truly being the bigger person by saying you are going to be the bigger person and then continuing to state your case as to why you are right and the other person is wrong.

One of the things I have always enjoyed about this board is there is usually not too much of the typical message board behavior of putting others down,making people feel silly for a difference of opinion, or some of the other childish things you usually see on other boards, here's a vote for us getting back to that.

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