I AM SAD AND SICK!

Are you going to Oswego again this year? -RP

they tried to deactivate anonymous posting. witness the hilarious "administrator has disabled public write access", which meant (though cryptically written in geek speak) that anonymous posting was no longer enabled. except that, um, you could still post anonymously. that warning was still there today, but now seems to be gone.

they don't even respond to private or public requests for clarification. they don't have to, of course, but gee it kinda sends a message when they don't, doesn't it?

my understanding is that a definitive move was made to ban anonymous posting, and an announcement was even made to that effect. unfortunately, they only disabled it for flat view, and you could still post anonymously in "classic view". very weird.

i think BGE is letting things ride. it's always been cloudy as to whether BGE officially "OKs" the way things are run here. i think they do. kind of playing both sides. the luxury of saying "it's not our official forum, you guys have fun", but then patterns of some BGE corporate deleting posts, etc.

it really would clarify things i think if BGE said "look, it's our forum, we are funding it (or going to, i dunno if they fully fund it or not). and because it is our official forum, there are rules. it's a private club. you screw up, you'll get tossed.


i find it hilarious to hear that people have been threatening lawsuits because they were banned.

and just as pathetic are the false claims of threats. ten minutes talking to a lawyer will straighten you out as to whether you really were threatened in an actionable way.

but, if i were a corporate entity and this forum were my single largest "face" to the public, i think i would tie up loose ends so that even ludicrous claims of lawsuits would be (slightly more) manageable. set up some firm rules, make up a user agreement, etc.

i don't know, a whole bunch of folks seem to think they "own" the forum. i think that's really up for the Moderators and BGE to decide. but they better do it quick. the situation is getting out of hand, and the small amount of positive you get from anonymous posting is outweighed by the negative.

lots of timely discussion about anonymous posts on thei internet. consensus seems to be that if you allow it, it often DEFINES the feeling or mood of your site. so, if BGE wants anonymous ramblings and swearing to be the face of their users, so be it.

i gotta think this will be the straw that breaks the camels back, though. and banning will becoming a permanent thing, anonymous posts will be disabled, etc.

for now, though, anyone crying over it is really just way too invested in their grill and the pseudo-familial trappings they project on it.

How could I forget? Funny, I was wondering to myself if this fellow was, perhaps, from Utah!? :laugh:

OY!

you know, they apparently canned the "Ceramic Grill Forum" where LIU ended up. seems to be a recent thing. Maybe it really IS him coming back because he has no other place to play.

I think they canned that forum due to lack of activity. It was a good idea, but, it didn't pan out.......

Well said Tim

When I see a thread taking a left, I take a left

Not saying I won't get fed up one day and join the melee, and I have felt like it at times, but so far I have restrained myself.

A few posts over the last few days accomplished what the troll's mission is - attract attention, stir the pot, generate controversy, engage in debate (they will take either side - doesn't matter), get nice folks with a common interest pitted against each other, etc.

Don't feed them and they will go away

I for one voted in Fidel's poll to disallow annon posting

Now geaux fire up an egg, take a pic, post it and tell us about it or help out a newbie.

Moderators....what a novel idea! You could easily appoint 3-5 level headed people that hang out here fairly regularly and give them the ability to move posts to a segregated area of the forum (or just flat hide them from public view) that the admins could then delete them or restore the post.

This would create some policing of the mods and if they knew other mods and the admins were watching their every step perhaps they would toe the line a little more rigidly and not overstep their authority.

Alas, I've heard through the grapevine it will never happen, but it sure would prevent all the horsesqueeze that's been percolating around here the past couple days and stinkin' up the joint.

What this forum needs most is a few good moderators. I have been a moderator on other forums and no way would this type of behavior have been tolerated.

man, the last thing i wanna do is sign a petition or solve someone else's problem. let BGE decide what they want. they make enough cash off my back, pimping their grill and answering their users' questions.

i'm not resentful or angry, just pragmatic.

i am an active member here, posting pics and answering questions. sure, i goof off, but i don't attack and i don't berate (unless berated).

so i'm thinking that if there is an issue to be solved, i'm going to let BGE fund it, and WMK and WPB can implement it. i ain't gonna learn code or send in box-tops to solve this. if they want anonymous posting, have the stones to come out and say it. quit playing it both ways, i say.

for what it's worth, all the lamentations about anonymous postings... last few days it has been registered members that were going toe to toe.

i thought it was a human-nature thing. all hat and no cattle. just two guys puffing out their chests, like sometimes happens. each one chose his weapon; wess, by using brute force, jeffersonian, by being archly patronizing. in the end, big deal, and thanks for the laughs. it hasn't made me think either one is less a person or more of a man. it was just a phenomenon

no, i didn't think actual 'threats' were being made. and so i just watched from the sidelines. like everyone else. it's up to wess and jeffersonian to figure out what they are gonna do if they ever meet up. hahaha

wess and I have grumbled at each other, and then later talk on the phone and it's fine. and i've b!tched at jeffersonian as he's crabbed at me. later on, i still engage in regular old BGE talk with him. i don't keep score. life's too short.

I miss Bordello Bob and his adventures with the ladies.

So there. Nuff said.

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw

well said and I agree 100%. I look at it as family forum.
My 10 yr grand daughter will read the posts with me. Why can't we all just get along. we all have at least 3 things in common
1 Life
2 Family
3 Big Green Egg

it is bad enough with all the crap on tv, the internet, and now the BGE Forum. Guess we will have to Watch what posts we read together.


Larry

God, I hate that song.