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[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by mr.ginter

The check arrived today. Thank you Doug. This will be my final post on this
Napoleonic site.

Bye! Thanks for the years of insight into the hobby you've provided us.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Bye! Thanks for the years of insight into the hobby you've provided us.

[Leon]

I took out the original poster's name, from my previous post, as the rules are not written well enough at the moment. There is precedence for what I did but our rules have to be rewritten. I still don't think what I did was wrong, vis a vis the way the board has always been run (for at least the last 5 years). Again, there won't be a change to the rules but they will be rewritten over the holidays......so no one can say they didn't know what was going to happen. The original poster is usually a pretty good guy but just made a mistake, albeit a very public one.

For the record, this is a private board, not affiliated with any other website or software. So if someone doesn't like something they can argue till the cows come home, but other than illegal activity being able to be prosecuted (for anyone on the board), there isn't much use looking for someone to tell that we aren't playing by the rules.

[barrysloate]

I've always had an opinion on this issue and I feel putting your full name out there ensures accountability. If someone could post anonymously then he could say any crazy thing he wanted to, such as accusing a dealer he had a minor difference with of being serial killer or child molester. When you're anonymous you can say any bloody thing you want. But if your name is out there you will make an effort to post intelligently (ideally). I hate the anonymous posting but understand people like their privacy. So in return for that privacy, you agree not to behave like an ass. Seems like a fair trade off.

[sayhey24]

Barry, the lack of accountability on the internet has always been a source of frustration for me. Newspapers always required letters to the editor to include a full name and a phone number and address (only the name and hometown would actually be printed). Now those same newspapers let anyone write almost anything anonymously on their blogs. Scathing attacks are commonplace in my newspaper's blogs, because without having to include their name, people feel emboldened to say horrible things.

Greg

[barrysloate]

Greg- I know. The internet has certainly changed the playing field. I've read a few articles recently that have discussed this phenomenon. People say all sorts of outrageous things on the internet that they would never dare say face to face.

[Kawika]

"I mail, I text, I tweet, I blog,
I build a Facebook for my dog,
I speak no words, I shake no hands,
I am at last a modern man."

The people that raised me were themselves one quick step removed from the 19th century. And here I am now, Tom Sawyer in 2010, assailed by broadband demagogues of ignorance and hatred, gutter anonymity in the blogosphere, red light runners - and I'm supposed to just go along with the flow? It is difficult not to feel marginalized in this meshugenah Brave New World. I can't wait 'til I'm senile.

My name is David McDonald and I approve this message.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

When you're anonymous you can say any bloody thing you want. But if your name is out there you will make an effort to post intelligently (ideally).

The key word here being the parenthetical "ideally."

Very truly yours,
Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

[buymycards]

Johann

Are you related to Rudolph Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm who lives in Wisconsin?