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Dee Jay
First of all, I'd like to apologize for the ugliness that's been going on in these forums lately. The regulars know it isn't normally like this and I hope the newbies will hang in there while we oust the flamers.

There's a disagreement about the cat situation - fine. We're all free to disagree. What we're not free to do, however, is make crude, obscene comments. At least not in these forums. A little heat is one thing, but some of the posts that have been flying through are a different story entirely.

To the person who posted the objectionable remarks: we're sending copies of your posts to your ISP along with a complaint that you've violated our forum rules and a request that they take appropriate action.

Let this be a notice to all forum posters: we will not tolerate that type of abuse. Free speech is one thing and I think the Boss and I are fairly liberal when it comes to what we'll delete. But the language and ugliness in some of these posts is unacceptable.

Now, frankly, I'd like to get some sleep and not have to wake up to a bunch of profanity and obscenity in these forums. Whaddaya say, folks?
(No rest for the weary)

FERAL KITTY SAY
When humans "Throw down the glove.." it makes FERAL CAT mad. But FERAL KITTY is mature tom, and says he will no longer spray the board.

Kenny King has to promise not to threaten kitties with radiator fluid, and FERAL KITTY promise not to insult his wife anymore.

FERAL KITTY wishes to thank Mr. King's son who served in the Army for his service to our country.

Also, Chad is pretty cool...

Also, FERAL KITTY is sorry to the thin blonde lady named DEE JAY if she got mad at me for spraying the board. This was a bad day for FERAL KITTY; and he take a nap now...

Just don't hurt kitties. That all FERAL KITTY care about. Nite Nite.
(We had freaks on the forums even back then)

Audra Crawford
http://feralcat.topcities.com

Any questions?
Audra Crawford
Texarkana, TX 75501
(this site is gone now but it was a cartoon cat peeing on Dee Jay and Ken)

Tanya Bolton
Great site! These two are really a piece of work![/color]

Dee Jay
What, exactly, have I done to deserve a spraying? The post I made on the subject said don't poison the cat. Texas, huh? I rest my case. Keep your flame war in your own state, thanks.

Fred Leonard
Ken King is supposedly local, and according to all that I've read, it would appear that it was his comments which spraked angry responces.

Of course, someone escalated this to symphonic levels, which made a bad situation worse. But the crowning glory came when Ken King within his own forum said that he was throwing down the glove, offering his e-mail address, and challenging the person who was writing the extremely ugly references to his wife to name a time and place.

I would think that due to ugliness on all sides, that the site's management would simply kill the entire message thread, and ask people to not flame each other again.

Ken King's [As well as several other posters} comments are still up, and make a window of opportunity for someone else to get into the feeding frenzy and start things up again.

One person, and one person only made an effort in this thread to encourage peace...and her comments should stand. Of course Dee Jay is absolutely right about removing obscene messages. However, she should have also removed the other posters who wrote extremely inflammitory remarks, and challenges. In a sense, this is a disturbance of the peace; and such postings should be eliminated regardless of who posted them.

A solution which might work is to force all participants to be fully registered with verifyable e-mail addresses; therefore no one can flame from behind a wall. (Again we run into the issue of what inflames people - help me, Madame Cleo!)

Dee Jay
Want me to tell you what I notice? That there are an awful lot of posts coming from the same IP address, including, of course, the person who posted the obscenities. So this person either has a lot of people using their computer or they have a split personality going on. Needless to say, I've already notified his/her ISP and all of their bogus posts have been removed and I will also remove any that they post in the future.

Now that that's settled, let's move on, shall we?
(Alas, it was not to be)

Kevin Cobbins
You claim not to censor...unless it's in everyone's best interest...then why haven't you deleted KEN KING's postings, which are very inflammitory!

Yours as well, after this last message is to enter into a secret collective to decide what to delete...rather than keeping everything public!

Even people like Colleen, who delete their own posts...remember this- WORDS MEAN SOMETHING, and once you post to a forum, it is PUBLIC DOMAIN and ON THE RECORD!


You can't hide from idiots like FERAL CAT, who obviously know you aren't even smart enough to trace him/her/it! But him/her/it knows KENNY, DEE JAY, and all the other little locals who pretend that this is their little fortress of opinions, where only their words prevail after DEE JAY takes out what she doesn't like ;)

Since there is no profanity, liableous/slanderous/tort or such offence...this should not be deleted. It is just an opinion.

If they kill this message, then it proves that somd.com is a bunch of hypocrites who can flame out, but not take the heat themselves...

(we killed the message *lol*)