I so agree. But some people are looking to get everyone upset and being anonymous they don't care, they are safe behind their computers.


I think we should know the truth but we don't have to accept an anonymous person's version of it. If it is unusual, over the top and just plain smells funny or has an agenda, then that kind of post is usually challenged and it should be.


We, most of us have a vested and invested interest in this place and there are all kinds of people that it is to their advantage and furthers their business to disparage almost anything here. There are those who have moved here and don't like it here for a myriad of reasons and they want to share their unhappiness. That is fine if they are being truthful. There are people who work here and hate working here and don't like us "rich old people". There are lots of people who are extremely annoyed with the majority view and attitude.


Some posters are very good at ferreting out the troublemakers. Don't shut them up.

I agree. I love our ferrets.

A thread related to this topic was out there a couple months ago. Since then, I have created my Santa Clause (I did mean to misspell), list........Naughty & Nice list of posters. I can't always remember............so I need a list.

I dislike posts that are more than 140 words. I don't want anyone to change anyone's opinion or sense of humor because that's what I want. I'll block some one I find bothersome. I haven't blocked anyone yet.

There is no question this site has degenerated over the last several years from providing primarily class A, sincere, helpful and accurate information about The Villages to fewer such postings yet growing amounts of generally time wasting drivel.

A couple of years ago I reluctantly started an ignore list which still remains in single digits but needs to grow. I grew tired of repeatedly and predictably seeing frivolous, nonsensical and deleterious one-liners from the same old, same old posters.

I try to keep my responses on topic and relevant. I think that is still true of the majority here. If I think someone has gotten the necessary response, I'll happily join in the joking around. I have no qualms speaking up when I think a post has gone too far, whether in negativity, stupidity, meanness or humor. I try to be gentle about it but don't always succeed. If things don't interest me or I feel I have nothing to contribute, I say nothing. Lately, there has been little that merits a response by me. Sometimes silence truly is golden.

As I suggested to someone else that I know, sometimes, time is better spent reading a book.

I think I'll follow my own advice.

I really enjoy your input, Redwitch!

I do have a vested interest in TOTV as I have been on here since July 2007 or so. Been through different owners/administrators and some varying groups of Top Posters.

Still believe this is one of the best sources of information on the Villages.

:-)

site has improved. You no longer get people actually threatening to hunt you down like a dog. Yes there is some sarcasm, yes there is some humor, and sometimes a thread just gets out of hand. But The information is great, the people give their heartfelt thoughts, and sometimes there's comforting words. I do it fine times that I do not post because what I want to say would not be appropriate. It's just life I don't let the small things bother me especially the things that I can't change.

Are you kidding?!

No. This poster isn't kidding.


I have received threatening letters twice from two different people.

The real garbage usually shows up on other sites where TOTVers who have been booted off of here go to scream at the people they hold responsible. It gets extremely ugly.

I mean primarily Topix Talk of the Villages. I am usually not their target of hate but some others on here do get quite a lot of malice directed towards them. It seems it allows anonymous names so one person can take of dozens of facades.

I a:agree:gree completely.

You should be on Morse's Christmas list at least, GC. You are one of the best sales people for the Villages.

I like the Villages infinitely more than I did Palm Harbor, Florida but I had a lot of very bad experiences in Palm Harbor. I do think your experiences in a place color how you feel about it. There was that March 2, 2004 certified letter from the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel for instance for my continuing to point out that the Palm Harbor Library no longer had a working link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. I quit volunteering at Palm Harbor's 2 public libraries because of its disappearance I believe or maybe it was all the unsuccessful attempts I made at getting a job in a public and/or law library in the Tampa Bay area. I thought volunteering would open up some doors. But no such luck.

I could not wait to move to the Villages in 2005.

There was also that gaslighting attack on me in March-April of 2000 in two parks in Palm Harbor and one in Tarpon Springs that put me in a hospital/mental health treatment center for about a week. That is another very bad set of memories but did show me that I was really getting somewhere with my 224 613 Project if someone would try that very underhanded and just plain evil kind of approach at going after my credibility. It did work really well for more than a decade at undermining my self-image and family relationships. And I reported it in person to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Headquaters Office on September 18, 2002 when I finally got up enough courage and also while I was armed with a lot of my received correspondence many copies of which I left with one of their Criminal Intelligence detectives even if he told me gaslighting someone like what they did to me was not a crime. And, I still have no clue as to who actually did that to me.

I do find the people on TOTV a lot more open minded than those on Findlaw where I was quite a lot from 2001 through 2007. The Findlaw people though had a very much vested interest in the status quo. There were exceptions of course but the lawyers on there really did not want their neatly arranged apple cart upset all that much. You put practical information in the hands of the people who need it the most and you are looking for trouble. Just check how many libraries in Florida have a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory or how about a link to the National Alliance on Mental Illness? Why do they not have Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) links that are very easy to put up for people with mental illlnesses and their families or survivors/victims of crimes?

If anyone wants to know why some of the events happened to me in Palm Harbor just Google Taltarzac725 and it should bring up various documents dating from 1991 and earlier which I have posted on Facebook through Photobucket.

I do thank posters on here like Gracie Girl, RedWitch, KathieI, etc. for at least having a open mind.

I do think cognitive dissonance is a huge problem with some people. If you give people some bad information about something and despite very hard evidence that it is true, they still refuse to believe it because it does not fit in with their world view. Or,maybe, they do not give a $+#*. Or, perhaps it has to be on FOX News to be believed. Or, MSNBC?