i remember that

maybe a couple times

oh yeah and some even found yer home number and ganged up on ya there

when you were not on just so you would not feel forgotten

that's the old me....I'm younger now and rehabilitated.

you were older then yer younger than that now


in best singing voice

oh boy tongue

I will echo that with a warning. If i see attacks on new members i will lock the person out of the forums. I mean it, don't push me.

for Jasmine, thank you

We are all monitored and check our behavior every day of our lives in our jobs, our kid's school, business situations, socially, and dealing with friends and family, this site, and ones like it are no different. The bottom line is this site belongs to not one member, not one group of members, it belongs to all of us. If we are to grow, gain the true benefits of the experience, we need to be tolerant and patient. Sitting at home behind a desk, unseen, is not a license to to say whatever you want to anyone, unchecked, and I don't know where else in our life experiences where that is acceptable either.

My place of employment. Every single day.

Well, all I can say is, I feel sorry for you working in that environment. None of us knows the true situations and trials of the folks who post here. If I've learned nothing else from my on-line experience, I have learned this...we all have our own story.

I've really tried to be enlightened in my arguments on this topic, but all I was guilty for in my verbal beat down was the fact that I was expressing my discontent at my lack of responses to my e-mails that had nothing but honorable intentions to people I thought I had a lot in common with, with no names mentioned, and all I was guilty for was posting a thread which I was too new to realize that similar threads had been posted on a regular basis. These should be taken with understanding and not mean spirited degrading remarks. We were all new here once. Did I kill yet another thread?

I am so happy no one ganged up on me....I would have been very upset!!

Ignored yes, but other members did not gang up on me.

LOL, your not ignored..
Sorry

I think the mistake that's being made here is that people are confusing the term " gang up " with the word " attack ".

Many times, the new person comes in and will make some generalized statement that many, MANY users here don't agree with.

Those users then express that they don't agree ( which is WELL within the rules ), without breaking into verbally attacking the poster him/herself, but it's perceived as being an attack because there are so many that don't agree.

I have seen very, very few actual " personal attacks " against ANY new person here.

If the new person comes in and says something that the majority of uses don't agree with, and then subsequently gets picked apart like a flock of vultures descended on him/her, that doesn't constitute an attack.

Thank-you John.....how sweet

pass the mash potatoes please

luckily i never got Initiated either but if i would have,i wouldn't have sat back and taken it

I think that new people that make bizarre or mean statements get blasted. Now you would never do that!!