I haven't been around the board much for the past few weeks, but even I knew who you were referring to in your original post. I find that your suggestion that someone put Sloan up to pointing this out rather sad, when I saw the same thing, and no one has suggested anything to me.
Firstly, don't forget that many of my points were to give suggestions on how to use technology to reduce the "danger" to children.
I did point out the obvious hyprocisy. Prisca, I was not referring to a specific individual. More like a list. I think that was clear from my post. But that detracts from my point. The same individuals who are crying out for the well being of children because of the sometimes rough nature of chat, are the same individuals who make chat rough! When they are not around, chat is a very pleasant place to be. And yeah, when they behave themselves, chat is a nice place with them in it too. People have commented on the difference.
It is like a nudist complaining that their children might see them naked, so they ban children from their neighbourhood. I am suggesting that the alternative might be for them to wear some clothes!
It doesn't take a great deal of computer knowledge to find that Sloan had an "offsite" conversation with a certain someone at a certain time. I even know the nature of the conversation. Sloan was set up, and doesn't even know it. I don't know Sloan, but from the little I have seen, Sloan is OK. I really don't know Sloan at all.
I'm sorry that you've been hurt in the past by certain posters, but it's time to clean your wounds and move on.
Prisca, your words mean a lot to me because you have been falsely accused of being vile on and offsite much as I have been. My reply when I hear that is that I surprised as I have only seen you be nice. Yeah, you can be nasty when provoked, but it is always justified. I'd like to say that I know you are a nice person, and have never seen you be otherwise. Not to mention that you are one of the very intelligent and fair ones. Plus, you have always been good to me, even when most on this board hated my guts. I admire your objectivity.
It is funny that you say that I should lick my wounds and move on. It is funny because those individuals haven't. I am always friendly to them in chat, and they completely ignore me except to be rude on occasion. So it is obvious who has not moved on.
The false accusations of me being a predator are still floating around, both on and offsite, and I know who the Puppet Master is behind the scenes. The forum rules specifically allow people to use this site as a launching point for offsite abuse. One of the abusive ones pulled a major con job to get that one into the forum rules, but I don't make the rules.
Most importantly, at least 4 others have been badly abused by them besides me. What happened to me seems to have encouraged them, as the abuse of the others happened after they abused me. What happened to me is not that important as I was able to turn a bad negative into a great positive. What concerns me is that the abuse is continuing, and they are getting bolder.
When I am asked to go into chat and make sure it is safe for others, chat is in a very sad state. When I have to monitor chat to make sure certain people are not going to abuse certain other people, chat is in a very sad state.
Now the abusive ones are saying that chat is too rough for children. Well, it isn't when those same people are not in chat! Chat is very pleasant at those times, and not rough at all. So, gee, maybe if those ones who are so "concerned" about children could show it by making chat a pleasant place period. Then maybe they would not be "concerned" about chat being too rough on children. There are other JW sites that they can do the rough stuff on, as these sites are unmoderated and warnings are given. I think Simon's site should be "family friendly".
Well, you told me to move on, and I am as best that I can. The payoff is huge. When certain ones were working hard to ban me from this site, I had a back up plan in place in the real world. The back up has paid off in all the ways that people were trying to hurt me on this site. My friendships, my romantic life, and my career are doing better than they have in the last year and a half, and the future looks even brighter. On top of that, I received two very good pieces of news yesterday. I am still on the "high" from the excitement.
Now, I think this dead horse has been beaten enough. The focus of this thread is about children coming here. I have stated my opinion, and it is as valid, or invalid, as everyone else's here. A gimmick of the abusive ones is to hijack threads and then blame me for it. I am trying to not let that happen.
Richard
