Regulators needed to regulate the regulating by the regulators

[spearcrow]

I'm not gonna point out any specific country, state, city, person, or website...but I think it's a shame to see something that was good just get continually worse by over-regulating the snot out of it. It looks like when a good thing comes along, we could just enjoy it and rock on...but no, we have to inflict unnecessary change on it. To make it "better" for everyone, or "safer" for all. It's amazing to see how difficult some people TRY to make it for others.

You can't just walk any more... You have to walk, taking 8 1/2 inch steps ( cause some people are shorter and can't take long strides), leading with your left foot ( cause some people don't ever think about which foot takes the first step and this needs to be remedied ), while breathing with your right lung first (just do as we say), with half-open fists, except on Thursday then it's open fisted ( cause some people are born that way ), pausing to trip every 19 steps ( just in case your more coordinated that someone else. I'm probably alone in this, but I just get tired of seeing things get waaaay over-regulated and way over complicated when there is no real cause for it...

Ok, rant over.

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

Seems everyone wants to reinvent the wheel

 

[da gimp]

on the other hand, on a forum I dearly love....the founders envisioned truly free speech on one certain board & "if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen"..... has devolved to having at least 4 white supremacists using thinly veiled language to constantly belittle any minority, gays, any one not a Protestant Christian.

To read their posts, all minorities & all Moslems are constantly commiting violent crimes against whites, there are none of either group that is not a terrorist or thug. Heck nearly everyone agrees & I do too, that Al Sharpton is a jerk (kids might be reading this), but it gets very tiring to see them spew their hatred.......all in the name of free speech. It cost that board one very good sponsor from here in Missouri......... who did not want their company to be associated with that vitriol in any fashion.

I'm dammed glad that the moderators here & on another forum put a stop to all bigotry & hatred. Thanks to Lee & the other moderators for keeping things civilized here. Keep on regulating guys, just the way you have been........

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I can just imagine the screams and anguished cries if and when any attempt is made to regulate the regulators.

 

[spearcrow]

Interesting take... but "keep on regulating" is never the answer in my opinion, though you can be that type of person if you choose. And to say that it's necessary to stop hate and racism is a cop out. No better than Washington bureaucrats hiding behind children to further gun control.

It's tough to allow people free run, but there is also a big difference in stopping violent, racist, people from destroying a good forum...and completely changing the way everything is done because of a few whiners.

And if these mods put a stop to "all bigotry and hatred" then we should get them outta here and in some place more important immediately.

A racist in the Lounge has nothing to do with having to post 17 different things so a classified doesn't get deleted or rearranged. The "founders" didn't envision a half page of sticky threads to be able to participate here.

 

[da gimp]

the two guys above who angry at the regulators/moderators only have to create/purchase with their own money, their own web site. Then they can create their own rules, and can have totally free speech on it to their little pea picking hearts content.

 

[zzzippper]

I'm not gonna point out any specific country, state, city, person, or website...but I think it's a shame to see something that was good just get continually worse by over-regulating the snot out of it. It looks like when a good thing comes along, we could just enjoy it and rock on...but no, we have to inflict unnecessary change on it. To make it "better" for everyone, or "safer" for all. It's amazing to see how difficult some people TRY to make it for others.

You can't just walk any more... You have to walk, taking 8 1/2 inch steps ( cause some people are shorter and can't take long strides), leading with your left foot ( cause some people don't ever think about which foot takes the first step and this needs to be remedied ), while breathing with your right lung first (just do as we say), with half-open fists, except on Thursday then it's open fisted ( cause some people are born that way ), pausing to trip every 19 steps ( just in case your more coordinated that someone else. I'm probably alone in this, but I just get tired of seeing things get waaaay over-regulated and way over complicated when there is no real cause for it...

Ok, rant over.

Was there something specific that caused your rant? Without context I'm having trouble understanding what you're getting at because I'm not feeling the same level of discontent.

BTW, I think once a fist is opened it is no longer a fist. Just thought I'd add that bit of regulation.

 

[spearcrow]

You can keep your free speech rhetoric and talk about bigotry...

I'm talking about making it unnecessarily hard on folks to be active on here, especially on the classifieds.

 

[spearcrow]

BTW, I think once a fist is opened it is no longer a fist. Just thought I'd add that bit of regulation.

now that's funny!

 

[keith44spl]

You can keep your free speech rhetoric and talk about bigotry...

I'm talking about making it unnecessarily hard on folks to be active on here, especially on the classifieds.

Crow,

I've felt discriminated against in the classifieds for being a
trader of all things large and small, i.e. cattle, polo ponies,
sweet crude oil, firearms, gold, sliver, and fancy BBQ rigs.

So, I no long participate in the classifieds, as I can not
adhere to all the paper work necessary to comply with the
every changing posting requirements.

All you all please remain calm and carry on......

May God Bless all Y'all

Su Amigo,
Dave

 

[da gimp]

so all this boils down to you not liking Lee's rules for the WTB/WTS boards here that you almost certainly use at no cost & it galls you that he has rules that he asks, nay insists that everyone live by........... Sheesh, talk about having cajones made out of brass......

dave thanks for the satire....... I'm not sure spear understood it..........

 

[spearcrow]

I fall into the same category with davo... and if there's a lack of understanding...it's on your part. I said my piece and am done talking to a bleating sheep...

 

[keith44spl]

dave thanks for the satire....... I'm not sure spear understood it..........

Da Gimp,

Do I know you?

I know Lee, and some of the others on here....

But, I don't recall ever meeting you....

So, your welcome and have a nice day

Dave

 

[handejector]

You can keep your free speech rhetoric and talk about bigotry...

I'm talking about making it unnecessarily hard on folks to be active on here, especially on the classifieds.

Is it really that difficult?
If so, I have to ask how you can follow all the rules and axioms for safe gun handling and handloading?

I keep telling people that participation here is voluntary. The doors aren't locked. If you leave, we don't go out hunting your orange jumpsuit so we can bring you back.

If I had felt I needed your advice on how to run a forum, I'd have sent you a PM.
Since you didn't get one, maybe that's a hint that I don't need your opinion on how to do it in my Lounge.

I can relieve some of your angst.
Take 10 off.
Maybe you'll find a place you like better.

I fall into the same category with davo... and if there's a lack of understanding...it's on your part. I said my piece and am done talking to a bleating sheep...

That's just rude.
I guess rude behavior shouldn't be regulated, either?

Crow,

I've felt discriminated against in the classifieds for being a
trader of all things large and small, i.e. cattle, polo ponies,
sweet crude oil, firearms, gold, sliver, and fancy BBQ rigs.

So, I no long participate in the classifieds, as I can not
adhere to all the paper work necessary to comply with the
every changing posting requirements.

C'mon my friend. It ain't that hard.
I'm sure as long as you've carried a badge, you've probably come to believe that laws aren't made for the vast majority of society. Most folks know stealing, robbing, killing, and raping are wrong and just don't do it. But there's that small segment of society that just don't get it and force us all to live under a huge code of laws.

It is regrettable that we do have to spell out in great detail how the classifieds and other sections of the forum will run. It would suit me if we never had to issue another ding, but I might as well wish for free filet mignon for life, along with a palace and a harem.

We have tried to keep the rules as simple as possible.
Every amendment made to them has been made because members proved that anything that can be abused will be abused. Just a fact of life.