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Posted By: Paul S

Joann,

Probably your post to me and my reply to Rob several posts above yours were written about the same time and crossed. I think it answers some of your statements, and reiterate that most likely I should have posted my "mob mentality" theme to the "congrats..." thread and the newbie theme to this one. You are correct about the way members of this board tend to police each other and that is good and I agree with you. However, I still do not see the other "congrats" thread as calling someone out, certainly not directly -- rather, several of those first few posts are sarcastic jabs that offer nothing in the way of constructive means of communication. In turn, Peter may be many things but never in my recollection has he been malicious...if he insults someone it is by way of an unfocused or untuned action on his part. In return, he is sometimes a recipient of an intentionally nasty barb.

My initial post in this thread was in reaction to the class-action nastiness of that thread (not all the posts there, of course.) A whole thread ("congrats...") started and devoted to Peter? He didn't require some stand-out intervention. Even Dorskind's random hate emails didn't rank that, and the Behrens(sp?) ejection was an off-topic instrusion.

The pity of it is, is that I have just been over to the "congrats..." thread and now, several hours later, see Peter writing in a tone that I have never heard from him before -- defensive, one-up-man-ship, beginning to degrade others. To me, it's a shame he's pressed to that point. I'm not a Peter defender or otherwise -- it's the situation.

Paul

p.s. Now I see why I rarely get involved in these things --
you have to hang around the joint all night writing more, when I could be scanning cards.