Begsu1013 A good man

[buymycards]

It is perfectly acceptable when a thread is titled "I popped my cherry". It can't get much more sexist than that, but everyone seems to think that is ok.

Edited to add: My wife and I have had cats for over 40 years and we presently have 3 beautiful cats. I also have 2 daughters and a granddaughter, and I am much more sensitive to thoughtless sexist comments than to jokes about cats.

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by buymycards

It is perfectly acceptable when a thread is titled "I popped my cherry". It can't get much more sexist than that, but everyone seems to think that is ok.

Personally I agree with you on this one. I think political correctness has gone way overboard on this one but I do find it to be quite vulgar. I chose to ignore it and not read the post because not worthy of my time.

The cat post was disturbing and not funny at all. Like I said before, I am a veterinarian and know how attached people are to their pets. Both threads had authors who didn't think about their choices. No wonder our choices come down to the Donals and Hillary for president.

[Buythatcard]

Moving forward, if this forum stuck to baseball cards we wouldn't run into these issues.

Some bad decisions were made but its too late to do anything about them. Let's try and move forward and use this forum for what it was intended for.

There are many people on Facebook who would love to hear about your cats, horses, dogs, wives, etc. Lets discuss cards here.

[Leon]

It will continue exactly the way it has the last 14 yrs. thanks

ps...Bob was un-suspended this morning.

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

Moving forward, if this forum stuck to baseball cards we wouldn't run into these issues.

Some bad decisions were made but its too late to do anything about them. Let's try and move forward and use this forum for what it was intended for.

There are many people on Facebook who would love to hear about your cats, horses, dogs, wives, etc. Lets discuss cards here.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Leon

It will continue exactly the way it has the last 14 yrs. thanks

ps...Bob was un-suspended this morning.

See....a two day suspension is nothing. PSA suspended me for a year because some members thought it funny to call my job to try and get me fired. Talk about placing blame on the victim!! Since I was "upsetting' some of the members that were attacking me, they got rid of me instead of the ones doing the attacking! ROTFLMAO! The year has long since come and gone, but I have no desire to post on a forum whose company treats people like that.

In a nutshell, this is the best baseball card forum on the net!! To get banned from THIS forum, you really have to screw up!! Leon let's all kinds of stuff slide. People are people. Personalities are personalities. He gets that.

[ramram]

I just went to that cat thread for the first time and caught the gist of it. Yeah, probably was in poor taste but I guess he did make some amends by donating to the ASPCA. Personally, I think everybody is getting a bit to sensitive. I'm surprised with everybody's responses that there is any comedians still in the business cuz 90% of them have that kind of humor in their act. Bill Cosby was one of the few that did not but, then again, .....

Rob M

[begsu1013]

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[MULLINS5]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

See....a two day suspension is nothing. PSA suspended me for a year because some members thought it funny to call my job to try and get me fired. Talk about placing blame on the victim!! Since I was "upsetting' some of the members that were attacking me, they got rid of me instead of the ones doing the attacking! ROTFLMAO! The year has long since come and gone, but I have no desire to post on a forum whose company treats people like that.

Around 2008 a CU member (or members) made several complaints into my work. I don't know who did it (I have my suspicions) but I know for a fact they came from CU members because that was the only online forum I belonged to and the complaints came from disgruntled customers by the names of "Conner Fette" "Gretskee" et cetera. This was during a time when a small group of members there were harassing me for offering a few counterfeit (I naively thought reprint) Gretzky rookies on the BST forums that I picked-up as a kid at the Gibralter show in Michigan sometime in 1996. A novice mistake that I have, many times, again and again, apologized for.

Fast-forward to recent times. There was a forum by the name of "Cardboard Talk" where just about anything would go. This was a place, mainly, for CU banned members to ridicule members of the collecting community. The language they would use was absolutely terrible. They took shots at people's family members and shared images off facebook pages to make fun. In all seriousness, you'd be shocked at the kind of things that took place there. The cat image Bob posted is nothing compared to what took place there. Several of these people have replied in this thread.

It was on that forum that a member gave advice on how to get a CU member banned (to get them to threaten you in a PM). Shortly thereafter a CU member did just that to Bobby which led to him getting banned.

And now I just found out that one of these members PM'd someone on this forum telling them there is a rumor that I am the one that called Bobby's work to try to get him fired. This kind of behavior is unacceptable and has no place here or on CU.

[CMIZ5290]

Patrick- So give specifics. You have made some accusations so who exactly are you talking about? This almost seems like elementary school, not professional like... Kevin Mize

[irv]

I have not looked at Begsu's post, nor do I want to being a cat/animal fan.

I will say however, these threads must stop and desist or I fear it will happen what happened to another forum I belonged to.

One guy who ran a sled site (snowmobile) got sick of all the moderation it required to run it. He had to ban people, stick up for people, appease the contributing members, etc, etc, etc.

When he got tired of that he sold the site and started another sled site, only this site had zero rules/moderation. He thought it could/would self moderate thinking that most people would have a degree of respect/decency for each other and keep personal attacks on family, jobs, etc, etc, out of posts.

Long story short, it didn't work, (big surprise!) and he has now sold that site and is no longer running any site that I am aware of?

What I am trying to say is, running one of these sites like, Leon's Net54, is not easy. (I was a moderator on a somewhat open/unmoderated atv site) It takes a lot of work and is time consuming, let alone having to deal with certain personalities, constant PM's, updates, upgrades, problems and of course trying to gain/retain contributing/paying advertising members to help pay for things.

I belong to a few other card sites but this is the one I frequent 99.9% of the time, so in saying that, I think we all need to be careful what we say and do on here, how we treat each other and especially how we treat, Leon, or like the sled sites I mentioned above, one day, Leon is going to say, enough of this sh*t, I am out of here!

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by buymycards

It is perfectly acceptable when a thread is titled "I popped my cherry". It can't get much more sexist than that, but everyone seems to think that is ok.

Edited to add: My wife and I have had cats for over 40 years and we presently have 3 beautiful cats. I also have 2 daughters and a granddaughter, and I am much more sensitive to thoughtless sexist comments than to jokes about cats.

+1

As a father of two young adult daughters, I agree. Sometimes we as a society take animal rights more seriously than people rights. I was also offended by that post, but chose to ignore and move on to more information about my favorite hobby.

We have more outrage on the posting of an old photo than is really required, especially in a hobby forum.

Where is the outrage over Hande Kader? Google her if you don't know the story, and try not to throw your Cheerios up.

Bob

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by Stampsfan

Where is the outrage over Hande Kader? Google her if you don't know the story, and try not to throw your Cheerios up

Not real sure what this has to do with the topic of discussion, but let me give you a little biology lesson. Women have 2 X chromosomes (XX). Men have 1 X and 1 Y chromosome (XY). Taking hormones to grow breasts and/or cutting off your penis does not change a him into a her. Now, there are chromosomal disorders, but that is not the case here. Not trying to take away from the disgusting event that happened, just clarifying a silly comment.

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

Not real sure what this has to do with the topic of discussion, but let me give you a little biology lesson. Women have 2 X chromosomes (XX). Men have 1 X and 1 Y chromosome (XY). Taking hormones to grow breasts and/or cutting off your penis does not change a him into a her. Now, there are chromosomal disorders, but that is not the case here. Not trying to take away from the disgusting event that happened, just clarifying a silly comment.

Wow, thanks so much for the Bio 101 lesson. You must be a really smart man.
I guessed "man", as I do not know what your chromosome breakdown currently is.

And I apologize for personally derailing this thread. Me bad, as it was so focused prior to my lone post.

Now I'll type very slowly so you can process and understand my point. Sometimes people seem to get much more upset at abuse of animals than abuse of people.
This thread seems to support that theory.