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Old 04-28-2017 | 03:55 AM
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Originally Posted by topspin
Well you certainly don't owe me any apology jend, the only thing you were guilty of in my book was telling the truth. That particular person has a history of being very bellicose on this and other forums but somehow seems to get away with it. I do my best to just ignore him.
Well said toppers , Jend did nothing wrong here .

Thing is , whether it's the "website for sale" discussion or any other , or whether it's this particular poster or any other , the pattern of moderation activity here lately at RCU almost exclusively centers around closing the thread rather than moderating the poster whose causing problems in the thread . It's the forum equivalent of "Billy won't stop hitting the fellow baseball players with the bat , so I'm taking the bat away and NONE of you are gonna be playing baseball" , rather than giving Billy the corrective action required to ensure that the majority of those doing the right thing are allowed to continue doing the activity they have come here to participate in .

When the management of I.B. is here trying hard to figure out why so few post here anymore , maybe it should be considered that moderating problem posters will allow discussions to continue , whereas locking the thread in it's entirety because of the problem behavior of one poster is the forum equivalent of the host walking into the middle of a dinner party and screaming "EVERYBODY OUT , THE PARTY'S OVER !" , which action do you think is gonna result in folks wanting to come back here to post some more ?