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saint:

This thread is getting a time out... It'll be postable again tomorrow. Without asking anyone to change their minds on anything, please take a breather on the subject.



saint:

OK - if you can read this then you can post in this thread again. Read this first please.

This kind of thread really puts me at a loss. I want BYOAC to be a friendly place -- arcade stuff is a fun hobby by and large after all! I'm not totally naive though, and I know people are going to butt heads from time to time. In that light all I ask is that people do so courteously, without profanity, without direct personal attacks (if you must, take it to PM), and generally without dragging the forum as a whole down... I don't expect to really achieve that all the time either, but it'd be nice if it was generally true, and as a whole I think it is.

So... threads like this leave me at a loss. Despite my habit of editing out things when they get nasty, I really really really hate censorship. Regardless of which side you're on this is an important issue in the community. On one hand you have a vendor's livelihood at stake, on the other you have people who've lost money from their pockets. I think it's important both sides are heard in a situation like this, and my and BYOAC's official stance is to be neutral.

But this thread keeps getting nastier and nastier and is spilling out to other areas as well. While this discussion is important to the parties directly involved and to potential future customers, as the forum owner I wince at the pain it's causing the site in general. First I put the thread in timeout and then I put the whole forum in timeout, so I could go to bed without worrying about what was happening. Meh - that's not fair to everyone else on the forum.

And so I'm getting on one knee -- there -- and begging, please, pretty please, tone it down on all sides? My doctor says I have high blood pressure.

(oh, and keep it to one thread please)

Thanks!

--- saint


FrizzleFried:

I think I speak for the vast majority of us when I say we don't want to see you in pain Saint...at least not without you video taping it for us to point and laugh at later down the road...

...and for that reason,  I will try...TRY...to keep my arguments civil.



JackTucky:

SAINT LOVES BYOAC!

Sir Auros:

I'm essentially done being an active participant in this thread. I'll probably keep reading, and I might steal FrizzleFried's sigpic. ;)

saint, I hope you didn't find me as rude as I sometimes am and that I didn't annoy you.  :notworthy:

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