So what do you do?

[Planogirl]

I'm sorry. Having a blonde moment (again! ). What does TPTB mean?

Thanks!

The powers that be.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Why are you deleting posts? PLEASE stop. PLEASE. We are expressing our pain & you are just erasing it & us. Please stop.

 

[LBelle]

I have met alot of people from through these boards. I have made many friends. The folks here have cried with me and laughed with me. I have lost many of those people this week for no reason that anyone can see. They don't know why they were booted. I can't imagine what the powers that be on this board think they are going to accomplish by doing all this. At least tell people what they have done! I'm sad and I'm angry.

Never mind.

I found it!!!!!

 

[AuntieM03]

Not your computer. Posts are getting poofed now.

This thread has stayed pretty tame. I was hoping they would let it be. It might have started a bit of healing. Now things will probably get worse.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

I hate getting poofed. It makes me fell like a kid getting ignored!

 

[LBelle]

The Powers That Be

The powers that be.

Wowza!! You guys are super-speedy!!!

Thanks anyways!!!

 

[Byrd]

Tinks, I know what you mean about holding your breathe. I'll be honest. For the first few days, I fully expected to be banned too simply because my name appeared there. The more the bans continued, the more crazy this whole thing seemed. Like it wasn't someone just having a bad night & banning some without much thought. It takes a lot of thought to ban people day after day for 8 straight days. I decided maybe I didn't want to be a part of a place that could do that day after day. I needed to be away from computer for 2 days & it made me think more. I don't want to feel like I'm being chased out because of something I did in the past, but I'm also not willing to give that up. Also don't see that people should have to. Like I said earlier, the DIS can't be everything for everyone.

I'm sure this is all a ramble & full of spelling mistakes. I don't care.

Good point, Splash.

 

[Tinks]

Not your computer. Posts are getting poofed now.

Oh, bother.

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

The problem is I don't think we will ever know the answer. I wish it didn't make me so

Vicki, after the money I plunked down for my Lifetime sponsorship I do wonder WTH. Walking on eggshells is very tiring. Hopefully this will be addressed and put to rest.

 

[BratTink]

You know? Have any of the Mod's posted since Alex's thread the other day or have they all been quiet?

Not that I know of and I'm around a lot.

 

[AdventurerKat]

I don't post much here anymore due to reasons unrelated to the latest happenings, and I don't post much there either, but I think it's really sad that so many long term DISers have been banned from this site. I may not have known many of them as well as many of you do, but I enjoyed reading many of their posts and this place certainly won't be the same without them.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

Vicki, after the money I plunked down for my Lifetime sponsorship I do wonder WTH. Walking on eggshells is very tiring. Hopefully this will be addressed and put to rest.

I just wanted to express my condolences for your mom, I can't even imagine how hard that must be.

 

[disneymom3]

I'm hoping the bannings are at an end. The way things are going there won't be anyone here at all.

I try to give everyone the benifit of the doubt and a chance to explain things. It is their choice weather or not they do or not. I will listen to any explaination they give, and then make up my mind rather or not they are justified in the way they handled this. Although at the moment without any information to discredit the "rumors" I am finding it very difficult to keep my neutrality.

There are plenty of people who have been banned today. Don't hold your breath Jules.

 

[Planogirl]

Has anyone tried contacting any of the mods? I have but just recently so I won't judge.

I guess that they probably can't say anything though.

 

[Cool-Beans]

There are voids now.

The next time a thread pops up about evil mothers buying their kids "expensive" purses, there will be a void. Ditto lots of Christmas gifts. Ditto TVs in kids' rooms. Ditto anything following a post by JoeEpcotRocks (not that I don't like Joe, I do, but there's going to be...a vacuum after he says what he says. ) Ditto Florida threads.

Ditto. Ditto. Ditto...

There are just going to be lots of missing posts. We'll go to a thread and think, "PosterX" should be here.

It's like we'll have ghosts.

But, I am still hoping this will blow over, they'll be back and it will just be something we all move past. Hope being the thing with feathers and all that jazz.

 

[janette]

I've been here a very long time and I'm running out of reasons to visit. I can find better information several places and we don't know how or when our welcome or others will expire.

I've had a very busy week and don't know much of what has happened but really tired of the same old song & dance. We aren't kindergartens that can be patted on the head and told that you are protecting us from the big bad Internet. Some of those we are being protected from we call friends.

 

[LBelle]

Your last sentence is the hard part for me. See, I have posted at the other place from time to time. Its served a purpose for me when I needed it. Just as the DIS does. I have other boards I go to also. To have to decide to give up the other place feels like killing off a part of me that I need sometimes. Or leaving here, that just feels even worse.

One board can't be everything for everyone. It just can't.

You're right. And it shouldn't HAVE to be. I'm just wondering if it's possible to still keep in touch with my Dis-family and also have some fun elsewhere? YKWIM? It's just all doom and gloom around here for over a week....with good reason, mind you. BUT....like I said before...I like the connection to blow off steam, have a few laughs. Nothing heavy. We'll see what happens, I suppose.

 

[izzy]

I feel so sorry for those of you who have lost your friends here. I've been around the DIS for around 8 years. While I haven't made any friends the way a lot of you have, I do think of you as my sounding board. When I first came to the DIS, I pretty much only stuck to the Disney-related boards. To be honest, the Community Board (and especially the Debate Board!) kind of scared me. The more I lurked, though, the more I found the true heart of the DIS. I hope we all get an explanation for this mess so that we can move forward. I hate to see so many people hurting.

 

[LBelle]

Why are you deleting posts? PLEASE stop. PLEASE. We are expressing our pain & you are just erasing it & us. Please stop.

There are posts being deleted HERE? Right now? Like which ones/kind? It all seemed very civilized and mature. What's the deal on that?

 

[KathyTX]

If the posts stay civil, with no attacks, they won't get poofed. But lashing out at the DIS and the webmasters and mods or other posters isn't going to do anyone any good.

I know there's a lot of hurt and confusion now. We do want to talk and explain. And we will as soon as legal counsel allows us to.

I know that many will choose not to not believe that or will use this as fodder for ridicule on that other forum, but I think that anyone who's dealt with me much will know that I tell it like it is. Love me or hate me, I'll tell you the truth.