gmattson wrote:my post on Van's forum.
I was half asleep and tempted to delete the whole thread. Instead I deleted all that I felt were in any way insulting to Bill.
I probably made a couple of mistakes by deleting some that should have stayed.
There is no question in my mind that Laird has repeatedly looked for opportunities to insult Bill for purely personal reasons.
Had Van said that GEM was using "strawman" arguments when discussing dan kumite, NO ONE would have said a word.
Bill writes a ton of posts on these forums. Anyone who writes so much, will on occasion say something that could be interpreted in more than one way.
Van writes posts on these forums that in my estimation, insults me and the 95% of our readers who practice what I call "Traditional" martial arts. When I say this, in what I consider to be a non-insulting manner and in a way that simply lets Van know how "we" feel, I get rewarded with all kinds of posts saying that I'm "paranoid", wear panties that get in a knot, "thin skinned", and on and on.
To me, this is a double standard.
Van writes posts on these forums that in my estimation, insults me and the 95% of our readers who practice what I call "Traditional" martial arts. When I say this, in what I consider to be a non-insulting manner and in a way that simply lets Van know how "we" feel, I get rewarded with all kinds of posts saying that I'm "paranoid", wear panties that get in a knot, "thin skinned", and on and on.
To me, this is a double standard.
Van writes posts on these forums that in my estimation, insults me and the 95% of our readers who practice what I call "Traditional" martial arts. When I say this, in what I consider to be a non-insulting manner and in a way that simply lets Van know how "we" feel, I get rewarded with all kinds of posts saying that I'm "paranoid", wear panties that get in a knot, "thin skinned", and on and on.
To me, this is a double standard.
So this really is how Van`s being Labelled and persecuted for providing good intelligent , fact based discussion.
And you wonder why his friends get sick of it .
This is not insulting to Van after all the hard work he`s put in , the man who above all created this forum (yes you fund it but who`s post do folks come to read) .
George why when Bill is called on his insults do you always want everything deleted?
I think everything should stay where it is so that people can see the past history of posters and determine if this time it is just an innocent misstep or just same old same old.
gmattson wrote:How would you like to moderate this forum?
It is a thankless job, but a very important one to this website. You sound like someone who is objective and fair and not afraid to tell any of us when we need to edit or delete a post.
What say????
I came very close to banning quite a few other people, but thought it best to wait until after the tournament, when I was functioning closer to 100%.
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