To conclude

[Gleber2]

Hvaing given my own situation time to cool down I feel that I must now conclude that which has been a most enjoyable Five months as a regular on this forum. Firstly I would like to thank everyone who has posted and PM'd me telling me in various ways not to take the huff and continue posting. For the few who have taken the opposite view, and there has not been many, you are entitled to your opinion although I find it hard to live with the bombast and ill-informed bluster of people like Godfather Golach and others.
The thread about Tesco which was locked started the situation. We have heard about cliques, gangs and bunches in connection with elephants. In fact, of the 22 posters who contributed to that thread, half of them caught on to the elephant thing and joined in, some of them mentioning elephants for the first time. This was not a clique but a spontaneous happening which was not started by me. In fact, I suggested in my own post on that thread that perhaps it was getting out of hand.
Do the people exist for the admin, or the org exist for the people or perhaps does the admin exist to wield Godlike powers over us all. If Niall had posted something along the lines of "Don't you think this elephant thing has gone too far. Please return to the thread topic", I am sure that everyone would have laughed and stopped the joke. Yes,admin is doing a good job and most of the time I have no problem with their methods but nobody is perfect and nobody is above criticism. In a community website such as CCWS, do we have no right to comment on the forum, openly and above board, when the situation calls for it? I have seen many threads go off topic without being closed down and found myself wondering why such a high handed attitude was being applied here.
Nobody is perfect, Mr. Fernie, but if every dissenting voice is told, in no uncertain way, to sling their hook if they don't like the way you do your job then your attitude smacks of despotism, megalomania and lack of thought.
This, as you have pointed out, is a community website but if staightforward statements are construed as sly digs and your PM becomes the norm then this can no longer be called a community site but something else entirely.
I have not broken any of the rules and have not done anything that would give just cause to be removed or banned. I will not ask, as others have done, to be removed from the membership list but I will not be contributing anything else to the Board. I will no doubt lurk now and again unless, of course, this post pushes our thin-skinned Administrator over the edge and I am left with no choice in the matter.
I have made no bones about who I am or where I can be found and, if anyone, particularly Star Glazer, would like to come from behind their nom-de-plume and face me in the flesh then I would be more than happy to meet them.

Goodbye good people. Sayonara.

[JAWS]

Sorry to see you go Gleber 2. I'll do my best to try and prod you into some sort of response.
You're posting methods may not have been to everybody's taste but you were always straightforward and spoke your mind. (And that is not a dig at anyone else's posting methods. We all use a method which we find suitable to us)
May your fingers twitch everytime you think about the Org and may your ears burn until you return.
I hate losing people I can pick on!

[Saveman]

"....and one by one they started to drift away. The air held heavy in the fading light as the space between the entities increased....."


Whatever happened to the good ole days?

[star glazer]

[quote=Gleber2] Star Glazer, would like to come from behind their nom-de-plume and face me in the flesh then I would be more than happy to meet them.

What a lot of people who use forums like this one do not seem to realise is that they are conversing with a large group of people that they would probably not have in their company in real life. Fact..

What on earth makes you think that we would be happy meeting you.Thats one arrogant assumption too far. Never the less we leave you along with your elephant worshiper, to impose yourself on others elsewhere. Farewell.lol

[fred]

What a lot of people who use forums like this one do not seem to realise is that they are conversing with a large group of people that they would probably not have in their company in real life. Fact..

What on earth makes you think that we would be happy meeting you.Thats one arrogant assumption too far. Never the less we leave you along with your elephant worshiper, to impose yourself on others elsewhere. Farewell.lol

I've met him a few times, he's OK in small doses :-)

[elaine]

geezo - much ado about nothing!

ta-ra G2 - but I think you need to grow a thicker skin - just like an eleph....(maybe I shouldn't go there)

[Chobbersjnr]

What a lot of people who use forums like this one do not seem to realise is that they are conversing with a large group of people that they would probably not have in their company in real life. Fact..

conversing with a large number of people...........it's a forum man with lots of members, OBVIOUSLY you're not going to get on well with everyone, would converse with people you wouldn't normally have in your company & we know it's a fact, we're not all as stoopid as you

"& what makes you think we would be happy meeting you", correction you wouldn't be happy meeting the man. You're not qualified to speak for us all Star Glazer that in itself reeks of arrogance that you would assume the voice of the collective orger. Anyway it was not your happiness he was concerned about in meeting you but the entire opposite. Lets have your spouting face to face

Stay behind your ID Mr. Glazer

I'm off to worship my eleph................

[golach]

conversing with a large number of people...........it's a forum man with lots of members, OBVIOUSLY you're not going to get on well with everyone, would converse with people you wouldn't normally have in your company & we know it's a fact, we're not all as stoopid as you

"& what makes you think we would be happy meeting you", correction you wouldn't be happy meeting the man. You're not qualified to speak for us all Star Glazer that in itself reeks of arrogance that you would assume the voice of the collective orger. Anyway it was not your happiness he was concerned about in meeting you but the entire opposite. Lets have your spouting face to face

Stay behind your ID Mr. Glazer

I'm off to worship my eleph................

tut tut Gleber2 ...come in as yersel, dinna hide behind your laddies handle

[star glazer]

[quote=Chobbersjnr]

"& what makes you think we would be happy meeting you", correction you wouldn't be happy meeting the man. You're not qualified to speak for us all Star Glazer that in itself reeks of arrogance that you would assume the voice of the collective orger. Anyway it was not your happiness he was concerned about in meeting you but the entire opposite. Lets have your spouting face to face


It was the now deceased gleber2 who made the invitation " I speak for an accumulation of people, rather than all orgers as you arrogantly suggested". And I am more than qualified to speak for them, as we all feel similar about such outspokenness against in most cases everyone and anyone.
Gleeber might want to make his own threats, " the man " as you described him. How pathetic, he really fancies himself does he not, and has a very slack tongue.
You never know I might meet "the man" one day face to face, and just hope his breath doesn't smell like other things about him.
The forum surely is no place for people hell bent on provoking others for their own personal amusement.

[star glazer]

tut tut Gleber2 ...come in as yersel, dinna hide behind your laddies handle

Exactly, couldn't agree with you more.Well said.

[2little2late]

It doesn't bother me that gleber2 has decided to quit. His quitting won't make any difference to the message board at all. After all there are new people joining every day. This is a very big kitchen, so if you can't stand the heat.

[Gleber2]

tut tut Gleber2 ...come in as yersel, dinna hide behind your laddies handle

You may be a dishonest little man Godfather Golach, but I am not. In a situation like this I would NEVER hide behind anyone. I have no need to masquerade behind anybody elses name and my son is quite capable of speaking for himself as he has done. He doesn't like snivelling little cowards like MR or Mrs Starglazer any more than I do. This my final word on this subject but you are small-minded enough to have the last word. Feel free.

[changilass]

You may be a dishonest little man Godfather Golach, but I am not. In a situation like this I would NEVER hide behind anyone. I have no need to masquerade behind anybody elses name and my son is quite capable of speaking for himself as he has done. He doesn't like snivelling little cowards like MR or Mrs Starglazer any more than I do. This my final word on this subject but you are small-minded enough to have the last word. Feel free.

Golach may be opinionated, that is his choice, but accusations of dishonesty are uncalled for by anyone towards anyone

[ice box]

Hvaing given my own situation time to cool down I feel that I must now conclude that which has been a most enjoyable Five months as a regular on this forum. Firstly I would like to thank everyone who has posted and PM'd me telling me in various ways not to take the huff and continue posting. For the few who have taken the opposite view, and there has not been many, you are entitled to your opinion although I find it hard to live with the bombast and ill-informed bluster of people like Godfather Golach and others.
The thread about Tesco which was locked started the situation. We have heard about cliques, gangs and bunches in connection with elephants. In fact, of the 22 posters who contributed to that thread, half of them caught on to the elephant thing and joined in, some of them mentioning elephants for the first time. This was not a clique but a spontaneous happening which was not started by me. In fact, I suggested in my own post on that thread that perhaps it was getting out of hand.
Do the people exist for the admin, or the org exist for the people or perhaps does the admin exist to wield Godlike powers over us all. If Niall had posted something along the lines of "Don't you think this elephant thing has gone too far. Please return to the thread topic", I am sure that everyone would have laughed and stopped the joke. Yes,admin is doing a good job and most of the time I have no problem with their methods but nobody is perfect and nobody is above criticism. In a community website such as CCWS, do we have no right to comment on the forum, openly and above board, when the situation calls for it? I have seen many threads go off topic without being closed down and found myself wondering why such a high handed attitude was being applied here.
Nobody is perfect, Mr. Fernie, but if every dissenting voice is told, in no uncertain way, to sling their hook if they don't like the way you do your job then your attitude smacks of despotism, megalomania and lack of thought.
This, as you have pointed out, is a community website but if staightforward statements are construed as sly digs and your PM becomes the norm then this can no longer be called a community site but something else entirely.
I have not broken any of the rules and have not done anything that would give just cause to be removed or banned. I will not ask, as others have done, to be removed from the membership list but I will not be contributing anything else to the Board. I will no doubt lurk now and again unless, of course, this post pushes our thin-skinned Administrator over the edge and I am left with no choice in the matter.
I have made no bones about who I am or where I can be found and, if anyone, particularly Star Glazer, would like to come from behind their nom-de-plume and face me in the flesh then I would be more than happy to meet them.

Goodbye good people. Sayonara.

Are you coming or are you going ?

[Chobbersjnr]

tut tut Gleber2 ...come in as yersel, dinna hide behind your laddies handle

get your facts straight grumpy owld man, with my physical size the only person I am hiding is myself!!!

any handle mix up in the past has been accidental as we both use the same computer, & there is no way that G2 would deliberately use my handle (because it's mine) & I know what I've posted

Star Gazer, lets have your "accumulative group's" posts then???? oh yeah & Gleeber is a completely different dude to Gleber2

By the time you have this amount of nastiness for G2 Star Glazer I would reckon you've met him already & are attacking because you know who he is. His outspokennes is a fact of life. If you can't take the heat of the debate it creates......to bad. It's a free forum with lots & lots of members & you are just one of them.

Coming or going.................Ice Box that to is a fact of life for G2

Cjnr.....................not Gleber2

[The Pepsi Challenge]

To settle this infernal row, I suggest a race around the world, where the Queen herself shall draw the chequered flag in Trafalgar Square. No? OK, then, muskets at dawn in front of Harald's Tower. It won't be the battle of the two Haralds, rather the two Gleebers.

[Chobbersjnr]

To settle this infernal row, I suggest a race around the world, where the Queen herself shall draw the chequered flag in Trafalgar Square. No? OK, then, muskets at dawn in front of Harald's Tower. It won't be the battle of the two Haralds, rather the two Gleebers.

smile & the whole world smiles with you........................except on Kait Ness dot Horg

[Oddquine]

Golach may be opinionated, that is his choice, but accusations of dishonesty are uncalled for by anyone towards anyone

While I hesitate to say it in the current atmosphere on this thread..........Golach started the accusations of dishonesty!

Who's going to say...........Oh no he didn't?

[star glazer]

smile & the whole world smiles with you........................except on Kait Ness dot Horg

Sorry chobbers I have to disagree there, this forum has never been more interesting and brings a smile to many faces I'm sure. Keep up the good work..

[changilass]

While I hesitate to say it in the current atmosphere on this thread..........Golach started the accusations of dishonesty!

Who's going to say...........Oh no he didn't?

I did say by anyone towards anyone, and whilst Golach may have started it he did so by inference rather than outright, which is why my post followed that of Gleber2 rather than Golach.