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Originally Posted by skyguy79
As being one of those being referred to in these two messages, I feel offended and compelled to respond and will attempt to do so with all due respect, something we were not afforded in these above posts. I waited more than 24 hours before making this response because I wanted to makes sure I wasn’t making a rush to judgment as to wither or not there’s merit to the remarks. Now after the 24 hours I feel exactly as I did when I first read them! I even went the nine yards to privately message the OP to find out if they felt offended by my remarks (I can’t speak for the remarks of others involved) and asked them to let me know if they did. I even offered an apology if they did happen to take it offensively even though I feel under normal circumstances that no apology is warranted. Now, more than 24 hours after I sent that message, I have not had the courtesy of receiving a response from the OP… and I know from their stats that they have been on TOTV during the day yesterday!
Now, I strongly disagree that we were mocking and ridiculing the poster, but rather simply having some good natured fun at the expense of the “squeak only,” which happened to be the source of annoyance to the OP. I won’t even bother going into the “bump” explanation offered by others! Do you really think that our posts really rises to a level that warrants a need for you to attack us by posing an ultimatum to harass us with a bombardment of jokes and pokes, just for the sake of annoying us? Do you think that doing so is an acceptable form of behavior here on TOTV? And do you really think that retaliation would serve any purpose other than to aggravate or provoke us?
Moving on to the second post! It’s been emphasized many times lately that we are to be friendly and civil to each other and not make personal attacks. Well, what do you think referring to the posting of others as “a bunch of BS” and “a bunch of crap” is? That sure doesn’t sound civil or friendly to me or consistent with the policies of this forum!
I now understand how Russ Boston felt and why he took to backing off TOTV and it wouldn’t surprise me if I decided to take a similar route soon. I have enough stress in my life and don’t need the additional aggravation of situations like these!
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I agree... I haven't responded to many posts on this forum since reading this. I haven't PM'd the OP and I don't know how they feel about it, but I'm guessing neither does any one else.
As to the squeak... had the OP come back with more information, I really would have tried to figure it out, so it wasn't that I didn't take it seriously. However, I don't take life seriously.
I don't know about anyone else, but I will truly miss Skyguy's post if he stops posting. He can add humor to any post as do many of the posters on this forum. I would so hate to see the forum become dry except for the "just for fun" forum, because some of us like to have fun everywhere. I guess I wasn't aware that I couldn't have fun on other threads.
Now to the OP... Now we really have taken this off topic and I apologize for that but I also felt a need to respond.
I have an idea... Why don't the people who are offended by another posters comments and feel the need to criticize a poster.... Use the ignore option instead. It would be much kinder then blasting them/us in a public forum. I have used it and found it takes the aggravation out of the forum.
CRAP!!!! Now I'll be ignored by everyone.....
