Posts from chester7777 in thread „Very Very Important“

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And to others here on this forum, let's just drop it and let the 2 individuals work it out.

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. . . its time to draw the line. lets call pax Please?

You're right. Consider it done, on my part.

Chester

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And I say again, I fostered no discussion. You tell me where in my 25 word post to Elly where I told her where the list was. It could have been on my website for that matter. If you get johnwayne.com out of the w But you'll twist it to fit your needs.

You're right, you made no direct reference. While it is true that a newbie to the board would have no idea where "elsewhere" is, to anyone who's been around here for awhile, it was kind of obvious what you meant. It would have been nice if you had posted it here, too. What would it have hurt to do that? While I agree Keith's response to your post was a little curt, I would hardly deem it an attack. Certainly not enough to warrant stripping your profile of everything, including all your photos - the proverbial "picking up your marbles and going home".

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Everything was fine when I was filling this site with images, information and contributing over 1000 posts in less than 6 months. I even went so far as to help pay and distribute advertising for this site. Yes, some others were generous to help with the costs but I put money towards it as well. My wife and I took time from our vacation to pass out these buttons. We spent all our extra time around the Birthplace passing out these buttons. These buttons are even being sold at the gift shop and I know this site has gotten members from those buttons.

Your point? I think everybody here is very appreciative of what you have done. Also remember that you were just as much on that band wagon at the time.

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So right before I went to Winterset I was approached to be a moderator here which I might add they even went far enough to call me on the phone about the position here. All the praise, the good job, the contributions, BUT, after I received the position elsewhere I never heard another word, not even a sorry but have to withdraw the offer. Not a word was said to me. I was dropped faster than a hooker with an STD.

I was certainly the mod who spoke with you about you possibly becoming a moderator here. After I mentioned it to you, Kevin and I chatted about it as well. Possibly he even might have exchanged a PM or two about it (I don't know). I also remember that while it was still in the thinking stage (a very short time, a matter of days), you were offered the position at the Official site. We congratulated you both here and there on your appointment. I take full responsibility for not contacting you again regarding a position here, being under the presumption that with your job over there, you wouldn't be able to take this one (conflict of interest type thing, more on their end than ours, from a legal standpoint), or that you would even be interested any more, with a chance to be mod (ultimately admin) at the Official board. My mistake. If you interpreted all of our congratulations as "dropping you like a hooker with an STD", I apologize.

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But now I have become some kind of poison. I'm beginning to believe that person in the movie forum wasn't too far off in their assessment as crazy as they may be if someone doesn't bleed dukewayne.com they get exorcised from here. Forced out, made to look bad, whatever it takes to build a shroud around this forum and keep the rest of the competing world out.

I hate to say this, DS, but I think your attitude is creating this poison more than anything else. No one has forced you out or tried to make you look bad. I don't see anyone building a shroud. This forum is open to those who want to discuss John Wayne, and in the Off Topic Discussions, anything else they want, within the bounds of decency.

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I might add that I let people use this forums url as their website on the official site, it's even been mentioned a couple times by the JWMB letters only and I haven't done anything. As a matter of fact I just did a search over there for the JWMB and it came up in 7 different posts. I was letting things like that slide. I didn't want to get that picky about the rules but maybe it should be totally enforced because I make one totally anonymous statement and I become the enemy.

I don't know how many people are using this site's url as their website. I am assuming it is only Kevin, and I guess he has a right to do that. But if the powers that be at Wayne Enterprises deem that not to be so, I'm sure you'll take care of it.

As to people making reference to JWMB, it was simply in the introductory thread, where folks were saying Howdy to others, and mentioning it in that way. Nobody was redirecting anyone here. I would think that would be good advertising, that a bunch of people from "somewhere else" are all congregating at your site.

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I don't think I've ever seen anyone thrown to the wolves as fast as I have been. I'm sure this statement will be deleted so as to not shed a bad light on the forum. But maybe a couple of you will see my last defense.

Not only will I not delete it, I will bold it and put it in red. Unless another moderator deletes both your post and mine, it will be here for all to read, for as long as the internet is around.

I don't see where you have "been thrown to the wolves". I do think you are totally over-reacting to what you consider scolding by a particular moderator. You're an adult. Didn't anyone ever tell you to ignore some things, let it roll of you like water off a duck's back? We're talking minor stuff, which ignored would have gone no farther than the other person's remark.

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It was nice getting to know some of you people. I hope I helped some of you when I was active here. I've made several friends and I'll miss our chats, public and private. I hope Carl gets an Internet connection soon so he can enjoy that computer. Good Luck and God Bless!

Plenty of those folks will continue to chat with you over at johnwayne.com, so it's not like you're never going to see them again. I'm sorry it's ended like this, with hard feelings on the part of some.

Maybe we should all regroup, and get back to our main focus, John Wayne.

Chester