Holy moly

[MeanLaureen]

Can I add some links to this thread since I was brought into it? This is just a small sample of wide open unlocked personal message threads addressed to you in the past 45 days that you bypassed to find those two locked threads from October of 2005. Just sayin'...

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1143419&highlight=Dan+Murphy

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1145316&highlight=Dan+Murphy

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1140401&highlight=Dan+Murphy

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1139684&highlight=Dan+Murphy

Just showing that you have more than a few threads that you could have used as an example but for some reason you chose to use me...

 

[disney4us2002]

Interesting that you chose locked threads asking about you that were closed as examples of your confusion about your poor treatment.

And you chose threads about someone you've treated cruelly and disrespectfully, and who was fighting a debilitating illness as further evidence of your mistreatment.

What about all the many, many other threads about you that weren't closed? There are several of them on the first few pages right now.

Sorry our housekeeping isn't always 100% to your specifications, but we're human, have real lives and other jobs, and do the best we can to make the right decisions for the DIS boards and all of the posters here.

This is not about confusion at all. You seem to be taking it personally.

Color me confused because I see NO REASON WHATSOEVER for you to call Dan out about what you believe his behavior to be in reference to ML. Why is that any of the business of ours? It does seem there is inconsistency and some ill feelings (at least yours) toward Dan.

Nuke, thanks buddy, got Diet Coke coming out my nose from your post!!

 

[diznygirl]

how? laureen has a life threatening illness. i think many of us get very concerned if she or her husband disappear from the boards for a while. dan was just off somewhere pouting like a 3 year old. you can't compare the 2 situations. or at least you shouldn't.

If you had read my whole post, you would have seen me mention Dan's advanced age and the potential for his imminent death..... So I can compare the two situations, and I did.

 

[AllAboutPluto]

WOW!

Color me a big fat "DUH", but I'm confused. Is this not the Community Board? In a "Community" would one not expect to find many people of varying backgrounds who may or may not meet each other with varying degrees of frequency?

I know in my community, I'll visit the bank thread and run into a couple of people I know and several I don't. Same with the grocery store thread. And don't even get me started on the gas station thread!

There are people I know, who, every Friday night at 5:30, are at the BINGO thread! I choose not to participate in that particular thread because the cigarette smoke is just way too thick!

On the 4th, my community had a Frog Jumping Contest Thread for young and old! My sister went with her kids, but I tend to forget about that thread every year. They expect us to get up and be dressed with frogs in hand at 10:00am! On our day off!

Every weekday, I, along with a couple thousand other people, visit the go to work at the hospital thread. There are a lot of us, and we do share some things in common, and even an inside joke or two. Does that make us a "clique"?

In my community, I've been known to have a short conversation with someone over a topic that would probably be of little interest to more than 4 or 5 other people, but I'll invite other people to that conversation, because I'm not sure which 4 or 5 other people are the specific people who will be interested. Other times, it turns out that far, far more than 4 or 5 people are interested, and they're all still welcome to participate. But I wouldn't have known that, had I not put the topic out there for discussion. And then sometimes, I just throw out something silly on a boring day to see if anyone else is as bored as I am. But none of this is generally enough to have me "banned" from my community. Or to even have that thought enter anyone's head.

And before I paint my community as too idyllic, let me just say there are a few members of my community of whom I'm not terribly fond. Nor are they terribly fond of me. When I run into those people, say, in the church thread, or the elementary school PTA thread, we share civilities and go about our own business with grace and decorum. We do not lower ourselves to petty rudeness.


C'mon folks.... shouldn't the community board be the place where we CAN have games and clubs and exchanges and general fluff? All the other "topics" seem to have their own boards. Once you get rid of the games/clubs/exchanges/fluff, what's LEFT (for the record, I'm not seeing much at this moment)? What sort of "Community" has nothing?

 

[diznygirl]

The first thread posted by MeanLauren is also a good example of a thread that's been hijacked.... I know some here have been wanting to see one.....

http://disboards.com/showthread.php...ight=Dan+Murphy

 

[Tigger&Belle]

But you accept email - someone could have sent you an email.

Nope, I have that option turned off and have for some time. So the only way to reach me is via PM.

Kimmielee, I am very sorry to hear that, but I can't say that I blame you. If I hadn't been here for as long as I have have and formed the friendships that I've formed, I would feel the exact same way. There's a lot of bitterness for sure.

AllAboutPluto, wise words! Maybe we should all take a step back and just quit rehashing this. We're not changing each others opinions and are not getting anywhere. We're all saying the same thing, over and over--getting more and more frustrated. What is the point? We should all be more courteous of each other--pretty simple rule to live by and one that I am most certainly in favor of.

 

[Aidensmom]

Wow.

Some of you really are taking the WM/modearator decisions so seriously. Step back and ask if it really affects your life that much. If no, leave it alone. I can see the difference between following up on a thread where someone is asking about someone who has been ill, and there have been threads about that, and just asking where someone is.

I mean no disrespect to anyone, and I myself have posted on threads asking about particular posters (including the T&B thread), but there is a big difference just asking about where someone is, and how someone's health is. If someone posted a thread asking where I was (like anyone cares ) I would expect it to be deleted.

Lauri, I am sorry you got dragged into this, and I hope you are doing well.

 

[tiggersmom2]

how? laureen has a life threatening illness. i think many of us get very concerned if she or her husband disappear from the boards for a while.

Exactly! Lauri, I am so glad to see you posted and hope you and Matt are doing well.

 

[Feralpeg]

I sincerely hope that my post kills this thread. Rehashing this thing over and over is only creating hurt feelings and destroying whatever sense of community existed on the CB.

I truely hope we can put this to rest and let their be peace on the CB.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Nuke, let me explain it one more time--I don't believe it's ok to hijack posts. I was trying to explain the frustration that one particular time. It's not so much that it excuses rude behavior as much as I was trying to explain it. Sorry that I didn't explain it very well. But since we do agree that hijacking is rude and shouldn't be done, I think that continuing to try and understand that one time really doesn't matter.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I sincerely hope that my post kills this thread. Rehashing this thing over and over is only creating hurt feelings and destroying whatever sense of community existed on the CB.

I truely hope we can put this to rest and let their be peace on the CB.

Oops, sorry, didn't see your post soon enough, but I agree!

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I do just want to clarify one thing - about the thread(s) that were linked to about my wife.

Several people involved these threads DID try to PM me but at the time, things at home were so bad that during the few minutes I took on the computer, I didn't check my PMs. I tend to get quite a few at times between the boards I moderate and it's easy for a PM to get overlooked if I don't have time to spend on them.

It wasn't until I was contacted personally off the boards and told that people were looking for an update that I came to give an update.

 

[arkansas mom]

C'mon folks.... shouldn't the community board be the place where we CAN have games and clubs and exchanges and general fluff? All the other "topics" seem to have their own boards. Once you get rid of the games/clubs/exchanges/fluff, what's LEFT (for the record, I'm not seeing much at this moment)? What sort of "Community" has nothing?

Let's all give AllAboutPluto a round of applause and this issue a moment of silence.
Stick a fork in me people. I'm done.

 

[Aidensmom]

Whoa, so is it an open or closed board? I LOVE drama. I want to go see if they're talking about me. Is it against the rules to post the link or PM it to me? If it's a closed board though, then how do you find out what's being said?

Such a long time poster and never heard of any other Disney boards?

 

[diznygirl]

Such a long time poster and never heard of any other Disney boards?

It's not just another Disney board - it seems the sole purpose is to make fun of the things that go on over here.......

and they don't seem to like Dan over there......

 

[crazyforgoofy]

It's not just another Disney board - it seems the sole purpose is to make fun of the things that go on over here.......

and they don't seem to like Dan over there......

Would someone PLEASE put this thread out of its misery? I think it has sunk to an all-time low. Where's a dead horse smilie when you really, really need one?

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Would someone PLEASE put this thread out of its misery? I think it has sunk to an all-time low. Where's a dead horse smilie when you really, really need one?

Here you go!

 

[Buckalew11]

Bad part is, I'm thinking there is worse out there than THAT board, Diznygirl!

 

[RickinNYC]

I think everyone, some particularly more than others, need to realize that this is a friggin' bulletin board on the internet and not real life. The fact that some are getting so ridiculously embroiled in the horrors of cliques, of the evilness of hijacking threads, of the self centered threads directed to an individual... for cryin' out loud.. move on. Turn off your computer and relax, talk to your husband/wife/partner, call a friend, hug your kid, walk your dog, smile at your neighbor. Do something to realize that there's more out there than just words on a computer monitor.

The fact that this friggin Holy Moly nonsense is still going on just completely baffles me and I'm sure it irritates the heck out of quite a few DIS'ers.

 

[diznygirl]

But Rick, it only takes a few seconds in my otherwise fulfilling life to point out the injustices here...........

..... it's like a hobby....