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The last thread with this title about posts deleted and edited was closed without notice or reason...LOL
So, on the off chance this sticks around for more than a few minutes before a mod finds their worry muscles tensing too much for them to bear....
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Ahhh…that’s better. A few days R & R rejuvenates the spirit, relaxes the mind and puts t2w-life into a more distant, blurry and less significant perspective. Wonderful. I’d like to thank Dr. Mod for the prescription.
It seems one of my comments on a thread was taken as insulting to another member or members. (Memory may not serve me totally correctly, but I think my being given a 2 day ban based on an alleged “two insults in a row” thing is stretching reality a little, but no matter, this is Wonderland so anything can be true, after the event).
I can’t repeat the comment I initially made for the obvious reason that somebody found if offensive. After all, an insult is an insult, even if true. Probably especially if true. I mean, if you said I was really, really stupid, it would be true, but I’d still feel you had insulted me. Or more likely, I probably wouldn’t have realised I’d been insulted if you were clever about it.
Perhaps what I should have more correctly and properly stated at that time and at that point was my personal view that anyone just joining the site, pretty much immediately finding their way around the site and its facilities sufficiently confidently to start a new thread and almost immediately be engaged by another member who has vendor status and in a matter of two posts draw out the necessary interest by implication in that vendor’s products (and to have a mod highlight and facilitate the means by which traffic could be routed to that vendors site) and for vendor to rep an otherwise unremarkable post and further to have that (so far) be the solo offering of the newly-registered member, a total of 4 posts all in one thread and with obvious proficiency and experience in using on-line BB, and you’d be hard pressed to find a more exemplar profile of a stooge-vendor, ever-so-subtle spam setup containing one or more or all of the elements described above.
However, it seems admin feel this wasn’t the case and this was all pure coincidence and random chance and no such relationship exists or ever existed or ever will exist and no such intent was ever held by either party, and therefore it was inappropriate of me to suggest, if rather bluntly, that such a situation does exist.
While we’re all at this juncture, it might be a wonderful opportunity for the admin/mods to provide a link to that part of the site which is for over-18s. Where people exist in the same Universe as do I, where unpleasant things do happen, slippage on your fills, stops are run, trades end up in negative territory, spikes take out both your initial and auto-reverse trades, people die horribly, scams and spams occur etc.
However, from this point on, I do solemnly promise in future that in this other, delightfully unreal, part of the site, to discuss only smiley-faced, sunny blue skies, happy rosy tinted people type things, where truth is only acceptable if pleasant and where it doesn’t hurt when you fall over, and when you do, people pick you up and give you money, all your orders are filled at better than expected prices, SBs follow the underlying without deviation, hedge all their clients bets and applaud them when they do well.
In seriousness though, the real irritation with this situation for me, and I’m sure I’m in a minority, if not the only one, is that in Real Life, you don’t get retrospective editorial review and amendment/deletion of your comments by a ‘higher power’. You say what you say and some folk will agree and some will not. And in each of those camps there will be some who liked what you said, the way you said, the point you made, and some will dislike it. And then can be any number in each of these camps from zero to one to all. But regardless of their disposition to what’s been said and the way it’s been said, and the numbers in each group, none of them have the ability to go back and change it or delete it – it just stands for what it is. Good/Bad. Popular/Unpopular. Rubbish/Genius.
That’s where tw2 Life differs. The same situation pertains as above, except here, there are individuals who do have such power to unilaterally override reality and repaint it or make it unhappen. Out of 100,000 members they unilaterally exercise it largely for the good of all and I am sure with good intent most of the time and their efforts enhance and enrich the site, but sometimes, they enact their powers to the detriment of some, or possibly all. They can’t be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-wise, nor do we expect them to be. But there’s the thing, we all have a choice. In all areas of life we can choose to do more of things we do enjoy and less of things we find irritating and pointless. And so the solution is clear. Spend less time putting yourself in a position where irritation and frustrations are potentially going to arise and more time putting yourself in situations that more strongly correlate with your version of Reality and where pleasure becomes eye-squintingly intense and frequent.
So, it’s Sharky’s site and he can do whatever he likes with it. Assigning moderators and advisors and giving them whatever roles, responsibilities and powers he chooses. Quite rightly. And for you, me, anyone else, we too get to decide the degree to which we participate or not in any of the site’s various facilities and forums. I’ve spent considerable time and effort on this topic (moderator behaviour and the moderation of that – LOL) over the last 5 years and it was important to me as I like the site, I like what it offers and what it can mean to those with the wit and intelligence to use it for good purpose. But after butting up against these admin ‘issues’ and ranting about them for so long, I no longer feel it’s worth the effort. There’s certainly nothing in it for me on a personal level any longer, so somebody else can take up the torch for democratic representation in an undemocratic, and quite unreal state, if they’ve a mind to. LOL.
I’m off to travel the far reaches of the site where struggling newbies need assistance, mid-term traders have hit the wall and old doddery experts realise they know less now then when they started and appreciate the cosmic humour in that, and all of this. See you there.
In the meantime, good trading, and I hope you all find your Rabbit. For those that need a clue, ask Alice, I think she knows…
So, on the off chance this sticks around for more than a few minutes before a mod finds their worry muscles tensing too much for them to bear....
===========================================================================================
Ahhh…that’s better. A few days R & R rejuvenates the spirit, relaxes the mind and puts t2w-life into a more distant, blurry and less significant perspective. Wonderful. I’d like to thank Dr. Mod for the prescription.
It seems one of my comments on a thread was taken as insulting to another member or members. (Memory may not serve me totally correctly, but I think my being given a 2 day ban based on an alleged “two insults in a row” thing is stretching reality a little, but no matter, this is Wonderland so anything can be true, after the event).
I can’t repeat the comment I initially made for the obvious reason that somebody found if offensive. After all, an insult is an insult, even if true. Probably especially if true. I mean, if you said I was really, really stupid, it would be true, but I’d still feel you had insulted me. Or more likely, I probably wouldn’t have realised I’d been insulted if you were clever about it.
Perhaps what I should have more correctly and properly stated at that time and at that point was my personal view that anyone just joining the site, pretty much immediately finding their way around the site and its facilities sufficiently confidently to start a new thread and almost immediately be engaged by another member who has vendor status and in a matter of two posts draw out the necessary interest by implication in that vendor’s products (and to have a mod highlight and facilitate the means by which traffic could be routed to that vendors site) and for vendor to rep an otherwise unremarkable post and further to have that (so far) be the solo offering of the newly-registered member, a total of 4 posts all in one thread and with obvious proficiency and experience in using on-line BB, and you’d be hard pressed to find a more exemplar profile of a stooge-vendor, ever-so-subtle spam setup containing one or more or all of the elements described above.
However, it seems admin feel this wasn’t the case and this was all pure coincidence and random chance and no such relationship exists or ever existed or ever will exist and no such intent was ever held by either party, and therefore it was inappropriate of me to suggest, if rather bluntly, that such a situation does exist.
While we’re all at this juncture, it might be a wonderful opportunity for the admin/mods to provide a link to that part of the site which is for over-18s. Where people exist in the same Universe as do I, where unpleasant things do happen, slippage on your fills, stops are run, trades end up in negative territory, spikes take out both your initial and auto-reverse trades, people die horribly, scams and spams occur etc.
However, from this point on, I do solemnly promise in future that in this other, delightfully unreal, part of the site, to discuss only smiley-faced, sunny blue skies, happy rosy tinted people type things, where truth is only acceptable if pleasant and where it doesn’t hurt when you fall over, and when you do, people pick you up and give you money, all your orders are filled at better than expected prices, SBs follow the underlying without deviation, hedge all their clients bets and applaud them when they do well.
In seriousness though, the real irritation with this situation for me, and I’m sure I’m in a minority, if not the only one, is that in Real Life, you don’t get retrospective editorial review and amendment/deletion of your comments by a ‘higher power’. You say what you say and some folk will agree and some will not. And in each of those camps there will be some who liked what you said, the way you said, the point you made, and some will dislike it. And then can be any number in each of these camps from zero to one to all. But regardless of their disposition to what’s been said and the way it’s been said, and the numbers in each group, none of them have the ability to go back and change it or delete it – it just stands for what it is. Good/Bad. Popular/Unpopular. Rubbish/Genius.
That’s where tw2 Life differs. The same situation pertains as above, except here, there are individuals who do have such power to unilaterally override reality and repaint it or make it unhappen. Out of 100,000 members they unilaterally exercise it largely for the good of all and I am sure with good intent most of the time and their efforts enhance and enrich the site, but sometimes, they enact their powers to the detriment of some, or possibly all. They can’t be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-wise, nor do we expect them to be. But there’s the thing, we all have a choice. In all areas of life we can choose to do more of things we do enjoy and less of things we find irritating and pointless. And so the solution is clear. Spend less time putting yourself in a position where irritation and frustrations are potentially going to arise and more time putting yourself in situations that more strongly correlate with your version of Reality and where pleasure becomes eye-squintingly intense and frequent.
So, it’s Sharky’s site and he can do whatever he likes with it. Assigning moderators and advisors and giving them whatever roles, responsibilities and powers he chooses. Quite rightly. And for you, me, anyone else, we too get to decide the degree to which we participate or not in any of the site’s various facilities and forums. I’ve spent considerable time and effort on this topic (moderator behaviour and the moderation of that – LOL) over the last 5 years and it was important to me as I like the site, I like what it offers and what it can mean to those with the wit and intelligence to use it for good purpose. But after butting up against these admin ‘issues’ and ranting about them for so long, I no longer feel it’s worth the effort. There’s certainly nothing in it for me on a personal level any longer, so somebody else can take up the torch for democratic representation in an undemocratic, and quite unreal state, if they’ve a mind to. LOL.
I’m off to travel the far reaches of the site where struggling newbies need assistance, mid-term traders have hit the wall and old doddery experts realise they know less now then when they started and appreciate the cosmic humour in that, and all of this. See you there.
In the meantime, good trading, and I hope you all find your Rabbit. For those that need a clue, ask Alice, I think she knows…