Is TBN too "family friendly" for your tastes?

[Soundguy]

Yep.. gets fun don't it.

I used to run a BBS type system way back before All gore 'invented' the internet.. Was a multi-line dial in system. One of the longest running in my area of the country.. Had a few nut jobs give me legal headaches a few times...

I've heard another version of something you said..

Goes something like: 'Don't get into a fight with someone who has nothing to lose'


Soundguy

I had a somehwhat similar experience as a moderator on a photography web site. We had to boot this well know internet nut-job. Prior to his getting the boot he pm'd me with some typical insults. Foolishly I replied to him questioning his sanity. Later, after he was booted by the admins he posted his own web site with this long diatribe about how awful our web site was and he included my email to him in that. No big deal, except that he loaded it with profanity and racial slurs (even though he was a white male). He also included some slurs against some of the other mods and we got a big laugh out of this idiots sad little anti-world web site.

Well, one day after one of our office meetings one of the hospital VP's that I work for calls me aside. A patient of mine had Googled my name, as patients will do, and found this altered letter and then called management. Boy, it really looked a lot less funny then! In any case, shortly after that his site disappeared. I don't know why but have to wonder if the lawyers of this big hospital system had given him a call.

 

[Soundguy]

As with everything, there is a proper place and context for it.. even the low brow stuff.

Soundguy

Well, I have to admit that I'm a big fan of low brow humor, foul language and other things non-mentionable.

While a large vocabulary is impressive, a well chosen string of one syllable words at the precise place and time can move mountains... or stop elephants.

Just not here, in public, at home, church, friends' houses, etc....

 

[Phils]

Don't get into an argument with an idiot. Before long they'll drag you down to their level and win by experience.

Phil... here every working day because it IS a family friendly site.

 

[RobertN]

I still have the e-mail address he was using back then, don't know whether he's changed it or not, but I guess I need to try it again. If you stop by and see him, let me know.

I have been unsuccessful in contacting Harv too. No bounceback on the email. And, the business website is still online, but has no contact info.

 

[TractorLegend]

I think posts on a forum are a lot like email or text messages...one can be taken all wrong and out of context if people feel you content "sounds" jerky, rude or otherwise. This has been going on since Al Gore invented the internet. :~}
You cant see and hear the other person which can lend toward erring on the side of believing the other party said all the wrong things the wrong way.

 

[Skyco]

Very true about being misinterpreted. Thats why I tend to liberally use the emoticons, although some people don't like that either

 

[MossRoad]

Very true about being misinterpreted. Thats why I tend to liberally use the emoticons, although some people don't like that either

You mean like this?

"Hey, that emoticon is sarcastic! "

 

[SnowRidge]

Al Gore sure gets picked on for that "Invented the Internet" statement of his, even if he didn't say exactly that, and what he did say was a poor choice of words for what he intended to communicate, that he sponsored legislation that lead to the growth of Internet, as we know it today.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Al Gore Invented the Internet

 

[BTDT]

Al Gore sure gets picked on for that "Invented the Internet" statement of his, even if he didn't say exactly that, and what he did say was a poor choice of words for what he intended to communicate, that he sponsored legislation that lead to the growth of Internet, as we know it today.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Al Gore Invented the Internet

Now there you go trying to confuse us with facts.

 

[SnowRidge]

Now there you go trying to confuse us with facts.

I too was suckered into believing that Al Gore Internet story, until I happened to hear something to the contrary years after it first surfaced. "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story," seems to be the modus operandi for most of the US media these days. We are a poorer nation for it.