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Old 12-02-2007, 11:13 AM   #11 (permalink)
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It's a good way to get more people to register at the site though. They have the official BM site so they can get away with it, most other boards have to be really popular or they can die off from that.
I might be the only one, but I like to see what I'm getting into when I register at a site. Fortunately, I know what I'd be getting into if I did go log in. Which is why I don't
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Old 12-02-2007, 11:13 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Are you KIDDING ME?!? They locked a thread and banned someone for making a joke about Hilary sleeping with interns!?! That sounds like a joke Bil Maher himself would make?!? WOW!
not kidding you and it appears the poster was banned (one post only and it was like many days ago)

you know i have nothing against mm but the writing was on the wall when they made anyone from the community a mod. imo.
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Old 12-02-2007, 11:14 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I might be the only one, but I like to see what I'm getting into when I register at a site. Fortunately, I know what I'd be getting into if I did go log in. Which is why I don't
Well if nothing else at least they have a feedback thread about it they can read here lol.
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Old 12-02-2007, 11:16 AM   #14 (permalink)
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not kidding you and it appears the poster was banned (one post only and it was like many days ago)

you know i have nothing against mm but the writing was on the wall when they made anyone from the community a mod. imo.
I don't know about that. Surely MM wouldn't condone THAT! That's nutso, Jeeeezzzzz!

That was the great thing about that board. If BM would say it, on his show or otherwise, we could say it. How many times had we heard that Admin say freedom of speech was Mr. Maher's motto. Man, that's mind blowing.
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I might be the only one, but I like to see what I'm getting into when I register at a site. Fortunately, I know what I'd be getting into if I did go log in. Which is why I don't

I know I was all hipped up to check out a board last week

and had to register to see anything; then got in and it wasn't

anything I really wanted. I gave a piece of myself away

that I can never get back now
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Well if nothing else at least they have a feedback thread about it they can read here lol.

This is very true.
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I don't know about that. Surely MM wouldn't condone THAT! That's nutso, Jeeeezzzzz!

That was the great thing about that board. If BM would say it, on his show or otherwise, we could say it. How many times had we heard that Admin say freedom of speech was Mr. Maher's motto. Man, that's mind blowing.
Bill is for freedom of speech. Cy is interested in Censorship.
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I don't know about that. Surely MM wouldn't condone THAT! That's nutso, Jeeeezzzzz!

That was the great thing about that board. If BM would say it, on his show or otherwise, we could say it. How many times had we heard that Admin say freedom of speech was Mr. Maher's motto. Man, that's mind blowing.
i'm not saying mm close the thread.

i'm saying once safesearching decided to make anyone from the board a mod ~ the rules changed.
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i'm not saying mm close the thread.

i'm saying once safesearching decided to make anyone from the board a mod ~ the rules changed.
"Inmates running the asylum"

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i'm not saying mm close the thread.

i'm saying once safesearching decided to make anyone from the board a mod ~ the rules changed.
I didn't really see it that way. I didn't always agree with MM on everything, but I would have thought she'd draw people back to the site, and she always started a lot of good, fun, interesting threads, and was helpful to new people. I was thinking it was something more along those lines.

I know everyone isn't crazy about mods from the community (Lord knows, I know that), but I was very surprised they decided to do that there. They'd always had this cold, shadowy, authoritative Admin figure who was above questioning, and you just accepted that, cause it's the way it had always been.

It's all so bizarre and confusing: the strange crappy board, all the posts being gone, the long unexplained absense of the board, now all these incidents that seem out of character with the old board's premise and name sake. I just don't get any of it.
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