policy on bannings

[Feliks, Moderator]

Just 'banned' from my fourth 'Goodreads Group' in three weeks.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

We don't play that way, here. If you start something, you can finish it. No one will ever be banned as long as I'm a 'Mod'. Its just not democratic.

As long as you aren't abusing, sabotaging, or interfering with group admin--you have a lot of leeway.

[Stosch]

write such LONG dogma around me? I can understand you being unemployed

he told u... LOL

[Feliks, Moderator]

Ha. Yeah, and then he sends me a little 'gloat note' to my inbox this morning...at the same time 'blocking me', to spare himself further humiliation. Passive-aggressive, like I said. The height of childishness.

If I've seen it once, I've seen it 500 times on the internet..

:D

[Stosch]

if i a had a nickel everytime..

[Jerry]

The world is divided between hall monitors and those who cock their snoots to them.

[Feliks, Moderator]

Somehow, someway, this will all be great fun later on down the road, I'm sure. There's bound to be some kind of 'Best of Goodreads squabbles' site where these four hilarious exchanges will be featured.

[♕ Suƶie ♘]

Feliks, you rebel you. ;)

Even in argument, you write eloquently.

[Feliks, Moderator]

Thanks. It ultimately didn't save my membership; as the admin still chose to ban me. Oh well..I had about 'used up' that group anyway. It wasn't very productive as far as discussions go.

[Jerry]

"Hell is other people." -- Sartre

[Don]

As Dylan said: "Everybody must get stoned..."

[Stosch]

Jerry (Banjo1) | 19 comments "Hell is other people." -- Sartre yes and feliks is one of them what a cunt : )

[Feliks, Moderator]

Hey! There are women in this group, Stan. Language please?!

[Stosch]

#limey term of endearment

[Feliks, Moderator]

I know it..still, thank ya. 'ppreciate the clean-up. There are young, impressionable, ladies around here..

[Stosch]

news to me

[Feliks, Moderator]

On our membership page, hoss

[Stosch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlR6Cd...

[Feliks, Moderator]

p.s. this last group I was banned from is interesting in that the moderator carefully chose to redact the entire sequence of posts leading up to the tiff. A 'purge' of history...very totalitarian tactic.

Some of the other groups, the contention was more vicious; but the mods apparently never even contemplated removing the evidence. You know, in all my travels around the internet I've rarely met a group admin who swears by the democratic process and lives up to it. The one time 'anything goes' was allowed..guess what? People 'self-regulated' themselves.

[Stosch]

brb drunk b4 noon

[♕ Suƶie ♘]

Yes, very totalitarian act to do that, edit the whole thing. I wonder what his motives were in doing that? To look good? To think that others want to look good? To shape "history?"

[Feliks, Moderator]

Oh the mod did that because he wanted to clear away the carnage, the wreckage, and bad-taste-in-everyone's-mouths, that's all. To 'pretend it never happened'. That might be okay if he went about it fairly; but he didn't. He 'played favorites' and backed one side against the other. I asked him about it, and only heard crickets in the distance.

[♕ Suƶie ♘]

My iPhone has a "crickets in the distance" ring tone! I know that sound well. :)

[Jerry]

Suddenly, there is no getting away from William Le Quex.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainm...

[Feliks, Moderator]

They heard it here first! We are the gold source for spying in the Gilded Age

[Feliks, Moderator]

j/k. Wonderful article, thanks

[Feliks, Moderator]

p.s. 'Teutonic' spies was --according to Barbara Tuchman--a very real worry in America during the build-up to the USA's entrance in WWI

The Zimmermann Telegram

[Feliks, Moderator]

'The Bruce Partington plans'--I'm very familiar with this story--its frequently reprised as part of OTRR radio...said to be one of Conan Doyle's 5 top-favorites. Meanwhile, the story of the battleship development in the article is richly-treated by the "Reilly: Ace of Spies" BBC miniseries (from whence I obtained my Feliks photo)

[Jerry]

Feliks wrote: "p.s. 'Teutonic' spies was --according to Barbara Tuchman--a very real worry in America during the build-up to the USA's entrance in WWI"

A gang of German saboteurs working out of an interned ship in Hoboken were planting delayed explosives on ships carrying goods to England. A strange Fleet Street journalist working for British intelligence named Hector Bywater exposed them in 1916.

[Karl]

German saboteurs were working in many neutral countries during WWI, targeting shipping by planting explosives/firebombs in freigthers. The person believed to be the main agent and ring-leader in Scandinavia, was a German named von Rosen. His M.O. consitsted of traveling round to different coastal towns, recruiting German-friendly longshoremen, returning with his bombs on the next round. In a sparesly populated country like Norway, he stuck out like a sore thumb, and was of course apprehended. He had a reputation of beeing quite a ladies man, and at one point he courted my wife's grandmother ....

[Feliks, Moderator]

Jerry wrote: "A gang of German saboteurs working out of an..."

Was that the 'Black Tom' explosion?

[Jerry]

Not sure if there was a connection.

[Feliks, Moderator]

Hmm. Have we 'gone to your well' once too often? heh :)

Long streak of solid answers. Bravo

[♕ Suƶie ♘]

Courted your wife's grandmother? How romantic, I bet that's a story all in itself.