hey hey hey, it gets worse!
Nick,
>I was attempting to clarify my position.
>
>If you want to take that, and the tone of my request, as an insultÑthen so
>be it.
Fair enough. But yes, your clarification was insulting, and I'll tell you
exactly why. Your response was "I won't actively participate in an
environment that squelches information in this manner." What insults me is
that you've twisted around my policy into some sort of censorship issue,
which it absolutely isn't. Had you followed our posted rules to begin with,
your post would have never been edited. And rather than looking at the REAL
reason our policy is in place, which is NOT to "squelch information" but
rather to prohibit bootleggers who rip off copies of copyrighted material
and sell them for their own personal profit from getting referrals or
recommendations from my web site for their "businesses," you used it as an
opportunity to falsely state that I censor at MHVF, and accompanied your
lecture with the self-righteous request that I delete all your postings.
Yes, that insults me.
>Quite frankly, the point of all of this is simply because i typed "VSOM".
No, that's absolutely not true, Nick. The issue here is that you did not
bother to read our forum usage guidelines and did not honor them in your
initial posting on our boards. And when you were contacted about it, you
emailed me a misguided lecture about my own rule, a lecture that was
grounded in a completely false premise. It's an issue of respect and
responsibility, neither of which you demonstrated.
>I do not blow off rules. I do not appreciate your attitude, which I am
>interpreting as unnecessary.
You don't? Then what exactly just happened here? The very least you could
do would be to have the integrity to take responsibility for your own
actions. You may think my attitude is unnecessary, Nick, but this entire
incident has been nothing short of frustrating. When you come into someone
else's house and break a posted rule the moment you step through the door,
that is not the time to "express an opinion" -- it is the time to express
regrets and apologize.
There's nothing more to say. I'm ready to move on from this matter and
would appreciate you doing the same.
Todd
in all fairness i should be posting my replies in their entirety, but that would be totally dorky and betray my unending, everbearing politeness!
