RomanticLover: Warning to New Posters, Plee to Old Ones & Petition to Founder
Sunday, June 6, 2004 9:25 PM
Glad to see the Board comming to life again. I've noticed a lot of new names as of late and I look for to sharing thoughts, opinions and experiences with all of you.
The purpose of this thread is a poster who many of you know or will come to know - RomanticLover.
1) IF YOU ARE A NEW POSTER: RL has been on this board, and others, for several years. I'm sure you'll soon become familiar with this Houston native's writing style and his/her various opinions. RL has a pattern of re-posting old threads or creating new threads with the same old questions and comments over and over. He/She has been doing it for years. Responding to RL, yelling at RL, or trying to reason with this person is useless. RL seems to enjoy it when you respond because it keeps his/her threads active. However, RL will not enter into a discussion - just continue to post his/her questions and opinions. The best way is just ignore him/her. When ever you see a post from RL, I plee with you to fight the urge to respond and to just ignore it. RL will also flood the board with his posts and re-posts. Skip over RL's threads and continue to respond the other discussion on the board. (Unless of course you actually want to have a ligitmate discussion with this person.)
2) FOR OLD POSTERS: I know this is not a new idea. Others have tried it before, but I ask you also to continue to ignore RL. I know many of you have already started to ignore RL, and I ask that you keep it up. (Lately, instead of getting angry at RL's posts, I kind of find humor in watching RL talk to himself/herself.) I've noticed that past challenges have failed as the threads expires and people forget. I will do my best to keep this thread active unless it starts to get negative feedback.
3) PETITION TO FOUNDER: I know others have asked Founder in the past to ban RL, and that those attempts have failed. Please feel free to respond to this thread, and in a way create a petition to ban RL. If enough posters are in favor of it, hopefully it can be done.
The reason for this thread is this: Many people who would otherwise gladly participate in ligitimate discussions on this board have been turned away, disgusted, and disheartned by RL's presence. I recognize that not everyone has the same views, and that there will be posters with both postive and negative messages to share. I just ask that people keep an open mind, be open to discussion, and have fun. RL does none of these things - except for maybe having fun in her/her own little way - so this thread was needed. It was needed for us to have an active board again, and to prevent others from getting sucked into getting angry over RL and eventually turned off from posting here.
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