Guest = Coward?

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:01 pm

Your trying to bait me again. Sometimes with some people it's the only way to hammer a message home. I was the recepient of very bad news from my doctor not ten minutes before you very immaturely baited me and I reacted. But who are you to judge me when you so openly attacked, trying to hit below the belt? And then after the list asked us to stop, I agreed, but like a child you have kept at it. So don't preach to me, get your own house in order!

WillSucceed · Post by **WillSucceed** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:17 pm

I'm sorry that you received bad news from your doctor however, you are not the only one that gets bad news from a medical practitioner; it is no excuse for bad behaviour.

I have not "baited" you, I've just taken the same pot shots at you that you have taken at me. What I have not done is make vulgar comments on a public forum. This is the piece that you need to apologize for -not just to me, but to the forum.

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:23 pm

You baited me plain and simple! Go back and read your smartass comments that proceeded my reaction. I have had not a soul from the list tell me I was wrong nor chastize me. I HAVE had many, many write to me, email me, PM me telling me that they are behind me. I don't owe you an apology, you owe me one!

WillSucceed · Post by **WillSucceed** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:27 pm

I've received alot of private e-mails as well. Hang on to your anger R & R, and keep making your vulgar comments; both show you for what you are.

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:33 pm

Then that is what I am then. I am not angry in the least, it's not me pouting and asking for an apology from the big bad man.

Ted_S · Post by **Ted_S** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:35 pm

Sleepless on LI wrote:I love you guys...thanks!

AND LET'S START A MUST REGISTER "MARCH"...You can be guested to read all the posts you want, but you must be registered if you want to be heard. That may cut out the people who hide behind their anonymity. All those in favor...

I agree, that would be a very good change.

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:35 pm

You can hurt Lori's feelings, but you cannot hurt mine. You are a bully and I won't back down from you. And as a bully, you don't know how to take it.

WillSucceed · Post by **WillSucceed** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:40 pm

You can hurt Lori's feelings

Can't say that I know what this one is all about; I'm not aware of having said anything to hurt Lori's feelings.

Regarding your 'bully' comment, I suspect that you see one daily.

Ms Piggy · Post by **Ms Piggy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:02 pm

sorry, I forgot to say, my previous posting at 5.57 p.m. was meant for SLEEPLESS IN LI,

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:10 pm

Ms. Piggy,

I couldn't find a post for 5:57 on this thread. Was it on another topic perhaps? And I had to laugh as I typed "Ms. Piggy." Felt like I was writing to a Muppet!

Grabraham · Post by **Grabraham** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:19 pm

Given the VERY LOW noise ratio on this list I actually favor leaving the post as guest option as it is. It encorages people who have questions about CPAP the ability to post without "commiting" I know there is NO REAL COMMITMENT and it is VERY EASY to register but in the short time I have been here I have really not seen a major abuse of that. Although Sleeples did get a rude response from a guest it only becomes an issue if you make it one. By engaging the "guest" you open yourself to getting even more upset. If you had ignored that post ( or indeed the thread given your stated opinion of it ) none of the Friends you have here would have thought less of you for not "defending your honor" or whatever you were trying to accomplish. If you are recieveing the email everytime a new post is added to the thread click on the link that "un follows" it
and move on.

I am really not trying to attack or criticize you Sleepless

I am just pointing out that there is a value to leaving guest posting as it is and that changing the way we all react to an annoying guest changes the "power" they have over us.

Ms Piggy · Post by **Ms Piggy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:20 pm

Sorry to interrupt you guys again,

it should be ON LI, I know.

Re the guest thing, it seems a bit of an over reaction to me, it's only happened once. Maybe we need a monitor! only joking.

Ms Piggy · Post by **Ms Piggy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:31 pm

reply to Sleepless ON LI it's just a few lines on page one between Tomjax and Flower.
You know it's easier to stay as a guest than to think of a name!

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:43 pm

This issue of anonymous posts is a very difficult and at times perplexing one.

After having been through both sides of similar debates elsewhere I now look at it this way...

- If excessive anonymous posts are a problem to the health of a forum then registering all users is a valid option but it should only be a last resort

- If they are of minor annoyance then it is better to not require registration as a forum such as this has a great value to new comers and visitors

- It is a sad fact of life that some people when annoyed or with an axe to grind, will resort to anonymous posts for very obvious reasons but the nuisance value of these can be qualified by the 2 points above

Cheers

DSM

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:56 pm

Gabraham,

I can take constructive criticism and I did not take any offense to what you wrote. I know you and you happen to be a very nice and kind member of this forum. I have no axe to grind with you.

Yes, I guess it is my nature that when I feel unjustly attacked, I fight back. And if you can believe this, I am less that way now than I was in younger years. Everyone who said it would have been better left unresponded to is absolutely, one-hundred percent correct. I took the bait and I shouldn't have. I never claimed to be perfect, and I certainly won't start thinking that now. I get defensive when I try to help and do good and someone like that, for whatever his/her problem is, goes off like they did.

I will not take that bait anymore. It was wrong on my part to even entertain a reply. But I guess when you can walk away from something with a lesson learned, you're better off for it happening. So in a weird kind of way, I guess I owe THAT JERK (LOL) a bit of thanks.

And thanks to all of you for your support and input. You can push me from now on and I won't push back (oh, this is going to be hard... ).

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