A small request from me...

[Hazcat]

Marshal'ette...

We've been using M'ette as shorthand here for a long time.

[1776 Rebel]

I am sometimes puzzled by the lack of understanding that folks have of the Internet and computer technology in general. After 30 years in the industry let me provide a couple of points...

The government (Feds, State and Local) spend BILLIONS of tax dollars on computer systems. A good portion these days are dedicated to nothing other than scanning and analyzing the text on the Internet. This is besides having people simply read stuff out there in cyberspace.

Anything you post, you should view as being a permanent public record. Like in FOREVER. Nothing gets deleted. Copies are made that you don't even know about. The Hosting companies, the website owners and internet archivers and yes the government all have point in time copies of nearly everything out there. Heck you should assume the Internet pipes themselves are tapped into by the government and simply redirected to their systems. Delete doesn’t mean delete and hitting the enter or send key is a commitment.

Anything you post, you should assume is and will be read and evaluated by parties (ie the government) that you may not want to deal with. Like in arrest and prosecute, because THEY think you did something wrong. If it gets to that point you will have to prove otherwise on your dime.

You are not anonymous in cyberspace. If you think so you are just plain wrong.

And finally here is the main point. In this political season everyone is pretty polarized. Anything like a joke about harming a politician or seeing harm to one, is not a joke until proven otherwise. So don't even go there. Marshallette has a responsibility to protect MB and his reputation and brand from potential harm and us from ourselves. So now she has established a solid set of ground rules. She done good.

[twyacht]

The best answer to a Marshal'ette request is:

Yes Ma'am.

P.S. I certainly don't want to have any of the "spooks" raise an eyebrow for posting on, IMHO, a truly great forum.

[Ksail101]

Can I still make fun of Haz for being old?

[Pathfinder]

Can I still make fun of Haz for being old?

Why not, we all do! Even those of us older than him!!!!

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[Hazcat]

I have a host of friends!









 

[Teresa Heilevang]

I have a host of friends!

 

 Is a "host" more than 2?

Other than that  I am unaware of anyone who has violated any formal or informal board etiquette that involved the use of liberal code phrases "advocating violence" or "racially charged" post. Perhaps someone could point me to examples of exactly what  M'Ette means?

There wasn't any racially charged post JohnJ. To be honest with you.. it was actually something that I and another forum member threw out there that was said in jest.. but still would not have been looked on that way by Big Brother. I take full blame as I kinda started it.  Everyone else's posts are fine and no one has to worry at all about the way that they post or the things that they say. Don't worry about it.. it isn't a big deal at all where this forum is concerned.
It was only 0.1% of the whole forum that was a problem..and it is taken care of ..

Continue On and As You Were Troops.. 

And I use M'Ette cause it is shorter to write.. and you all are like my family.. so you could even shorten it to "Ette if you wanted and it won't bother me..

((And no Haz... you CAN'T call me """THAT"""".. so just forget it!))

[Hazcat]

DANG!!

[Ron J]

Can I still make fun of Haz for being old?

Haz ... Thanks for posting your age on your profile.  I was VERY glad to see that you are older than me! 

[JohnJacobH]

In this political season everyone is pretty polarized. Anything like a joke about harming a politician or seeing harm to one, is not a joke until proven otherwise. So don't even go there. Marshallette has a responsibility to protect MB and his reputation and brand from potential harm and us from ourselves. So now she has established a solid set of ground rules. She done good.

Got it. Everything you say or do or do not say or do not do is sufficient to buy you a ticket to the Gulag.

What amazes me is how quickly people think themselves into a society that does not exist until their beliefs bring it into existence. 

To ask people to self censor their posts or live in fear on the basis of meaningless phrases like "advocating violence" or "racially charged" comes right out of the Soviet playbook.

Michael Bane did a podcast and contributed to a thread about what your car carry rifle should be if  simultaneous copycat riots break out in multiple cities across the country. Was he "advocating violence"  or making" racially charged" comments? No,he was on a gun board discussing the use and deployment of various weapons under various circumstances regardless of what the Mike Nifongs of the world think he meant.

These phrases are the type of slippery crypto covert mind meld terms of art Fabian Socialists love to toss around because everyone thinks they know what they mean when they are in fact meaningless.

If specific behaviours by specific individuals need attention, they should be attended specifically.

Blaming the many for the behaviours of the few is what got us into this mess now.  Ban all guns, knives, slingshots, and salt and pepper shakers because SOMEONE (unknown percentage) may poke their eye out.

Does not work that way in the real world. Never has and never will, as the former Soviet Socialist Union discovered after a century of doom and despair.