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Title: Attention 4um participants
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Published: May 22, 2013
Author: Christine
Post Date: 2013-05-22 13:39:19 by christine
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As most of you know, I haven't had the time to participate in or monitor 4um as I once did. That's not going to change. I will not be able to read every post every day. Truthfully, when I created this forum, it was never my intention to be a heavy handed administrator and it was always my hope that participants appreciate that, respect it, and, thereby, exercise self control.
For the most part, that has been the case--until lately.
The animosity and incivility and accusations displayed towards one another has become almost intolerable to me. It's caused me to feel ashamed that I am the owner of this forum. I am actually considering pulling the plug as I cannot see any value in letting this continue.
I would like to know your thoughts and opinions. Subscribe to *4um Admin News*
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#20. To: christine, Lod, abraxas, randge, Ada, farmfriend, Lysander_Spooner, HOUNDDAWG, Jethro Tull, wudidiz, TommyTheMadArtist, Original_Intent, Horse, Artisan, Parrot with speed dial, gengis gandhi, X-15, TwentyTwelve, titorite, ALL (#0) (Edited)
The animosity and incivility and accusations displayed towards one another has become almost intolerable to me. It's caused me to feel ashamed that I am the owner of this forum. I am actually considering pulling the plug as I cannot see any value in letting this continue.
I would like to know your thoughts and opinions.

Dear Christine,
As other astute posters have seen, the extra high troll noise is due to the imminence of the SHTF, nothing more.
WE ARE GOING TO NEED communication clusters MORE THAN EVER when the down shift occurs. Assuming that the internet itself is not taken down, we will soon need 4Um and every other site not fatally corrupted to help organize grass roots cooperation amidst the increased chaos.
First gut reaction to your post?
Start terminating certain aliases/moniker/avatars!
Better to pluck out an offending eye than to lose the entire being. Cut off the paid pin heads and save the 4Um community!
Sounds like a worth-while trade to me....
All of us could provide you with a short list of troll aliases, those multiple personalities entertaining us with their trolling posts containing prime examples of the following:
1) Destructive intent
2) Uncivil behavior - non-existent manners
3) Deliberate lowering of the level of discourse
4) Deliberate distraction/obfuscation of important truths by regressive, immature, morally retarded self-indulgence.
5) Deliberate derailing of threads whose topics have the potential to expose the most of the emperor's bare ass!

Perhaps you are reluctant to go there, to the point of actively disabling abusers of your forum, out of concern that some tiny tortured souls (whether they are merely sincerely unconscious dupes pinioned by the MEdiaMatrix or terminally sleazy, paid trolls) might try to guilt you.
"Censorship!" Gasp!
Any meme that would attempt to shame you into the non-exercise of your rights as host, must be identified as coming from massive hypocrisy, a sub routine of the implanted self-defeating mind control, tying us into knots of indecision while the global miscreants slaughter children for fun.....
How about re-framing this into simple "party host" duty?
When some moral retard is stealing fun and life force from the other party guests, it is time to simply send the offenders away, no hesitation.
If you take that road, we will all help you to identify the new gophers which pop up; trolls taking new aliases.
It will be amusing to leverage the depth perception present here to identify the bad actors as they attempt to slip through the blockade of civil intercourse.
Whatever you do decide, you have the gratitude of all of us who have enjoyed the information exchange and the shelter from the storm of lies, here in the bosom of 4Um-land!
Thank you Christine!

HighLairEon posted on 2013-05-22 16:19:48 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#45. To: HighLairEon, christine (#20)
Whatever you do decide, you have the gratitude of all of us who have enjoyed the information exchange and the shelter from the storm of lies, here in the bosom of 4Um-land!
Thank you Christine!

I agree. I have enjoyed the time I have spent reading articles and posting my thoughts here. Would hate to see 4um shut down because of a few disruptors but I thought that was why we had the clown filter. I use it and it seems to have worked pretty well for me.

James Deffenbach posted on 2013-05-22 19:23:36 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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