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Hating the sin and Loving the sinner (to Karen)

Postby john » August 28th, 2008, 11:02 pm

If this is just going to go back and forth between the two of you, how about if you exchange email addresses and take this off the forums?
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Postby Leslie » August 29th, 2008, 2:37 am

"What are you laughing at?"
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Postby Adam » August 29th, 2008, 3:28 am

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Postby Adam » August 29th, 2008, 3:38 am

"Love is the only art that poorly imitates nature."
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Postby Adam » August 29th, 2008, 3:40 am

"Love is the only art that poorly imitates nature."
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Postby mitchellmckain » August 29th, 2008, 8:52 am

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Postby Stanley Anderson » August 29th, 2008, 2:05 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby john » August 29th, 2008, 2:35 pm

I don't need a lecture, Stan. I know what the forums are for. I also know that a thread that mostly consists of two people disrespectfully bickering back and forth is usually something that Wardrobians don't like. So, I was under the assumption I was acting on behalf of others, but obviously I wasn't.

It's a fine line that I walk around here -- the vast majority of the time, nobody says a word to me about anything going on they don't particularly like. Instead, they just avoid various threads...and sometimes, when they realize they're avoiding too many, they just avoid the Wardrobe altogether.

If I don't say or do something when these things happen, it's said that I'm letting too much go, and I will risk good people leaving because they don't like the direction of the forums these days, usually with a wistful nostalgia for the "old days" to return. If I try to be proactive and do something without having received complaints about it (as usually is the case), then I run the risk of inappropriately making a judgment, or being judged myself as being heavy-handed. If I'm not consistent...well, then I'm censoring and showing bias.

I made the wrong judgment in this case.
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Postby Leslie » August 29th, 2008, 4:34 pm

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Postby john » August 29th, 2008, 4:44 pm

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Postby rusmeister » August 30th, 2008, 4:44 am

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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