I was told about this by a friend and I haven't read all of the comments, just some and that's made my migraine worse ;P
But I wanted to say something after reading your comments in this post. You said:
If your comments are making those who are contributing content to the comm either want to delete their entries or not post at all, then they are not welcome here...if there is something that is making people wary of posting their "finds" here, then the community can't succeed and I need to try to find a way to repair it so that it can.
And I agree with that. But I think it's very important that this be administered fairly if you want it to succeed.
As you know I left this community because of comments from you and a couple of your friends. The way you all behaved made me feel unwanted here and because your comments were carried over to elijah_daily I've been wary since then of posting anything anywhere, and now I don't post anything at all. Last year after it happened I deleted every post I'd made in this community and left it, and I did that solely because of the way I was treated by you and the other two people. I'm not saying any of this to bring up old stuff because, for anyone else who might read this Bunnie and one of the other people apologised to me when I confronted them about their behaviour, I'm not doing this for any reason other than to say to you Bunnie that I think it's important to hold yourself and your friends to the same standards and rules that everyone else in this community is held to. Bad/rude/negative behaviour is not a good thing, but it's not just limited to the people who don't like Pam Racine (though obviously that's a big part of it), it also relates to any kind of bad/negative behaviour and I think that it shouldn't be allowed.
As far as I know no one was given any 'warning' or threats of being banned from commenting after what happened to me. The people who apologised only did so after I confronted them about their behaviour and I think all members of the community deserve to feel like they're free from attack even by the comm's owner and their friends. Maybe you disagree, and it is your community so you're free to do that, but perhaps the other members need to know that.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to have a say on anything here in this community since I left it, so by all means feel free to tell me to sod off, but I felt that the reason I left was pretty much the same issues you were covering in this post so I hope you don't mind me giving my two cents worth.
Good luck with it all, I don't run any communities and I'm pretty glad I don't because it must be a lot of extra stress for you. I hope you can see though that on the whole the majority of your community members are good people who don't give any grief, so don't let the vocal few get you down! :)
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But I wanted to say something after reading your comments in this post. You said:
If your comments are making those who are contributing content to the comm either want to delete their entries or not post at all, then they are not welcome here...if there is something that is making people wary of posting their "finds" here, then the community can't succeed and I need to try to find a way to repair it so that it can.
And I agree with that. But I think it's very important that this be administered fairly if you want it to succeed.
As you know I left this community because of comments from you and a couple of your friends. The way you all behaved made me feel unwanted here and because your comments were carried over to
As far as I know no one was given any 'warning' or threats of being banned from commenting after what happened to me. The people who apologised only did so after I confronted them about their behaviour and I think all members of the community deserve to feel like they're free from attack even by the comm's owner and their friends. Maybe you disagree, and it is your community so you're free to do that, but perhaps the other members need to know that.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to have a say on anything here in this community since I left it, so by all means feel free to tell me to sod off, but I felt that the reason I left was pretty much the same issues you were covering in this post so I hope you don't mind me giving my two cents worth.
Good luck with it all, I don't run any communities and I'm pretty glad I don't because it must be a lot of extra stress for you. I hope you can see though that on the whole the majority of your community members are good people who don't give any grief, so don't let the vocal few get you down! :)