Is Rick Driver Morning show on WAIM-AM 1230 a comedy show????

dadsgrl asked "Why are plumbob, and prevail allowed to make reference to my daddy?"Little girl, just who is your 'daddy' you speak of? I have not addressed anyones Daddy that I can remember.Also, since this is your very first post, why did you pick plumbob and prevail out to question. Please explain yourself.

-prevail

  Excuse me .. Her post was intended for JD .. not you.

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Excuse me .. Her post was intended for JD .. not you.

-citizen1

I think a poster with a profile that gives her age as 26 should be able to speak for herself. That is unless she is part of a group effort and needs the help.

ibvirginia, leave yankeefan alone or I will personally tell you not to do that. This is my unofficial warning..be aware!

-prevail

Pappy, what I said to ibv was in jest as anyone with common sense could see. You left-wingers are so far out of touch with reality that you cannot understand a simple statement. Just because your man is going to the new black house does not mean that you rule over conservatives. I keep the peace and don't need you to remind me. I hope I have not hurt your administrator feelings and I have not threatened you either.

-prevail

Looks like it's unanimous.

By the way, Carolinakid, as far as your "grandfather" being referenced occasionally over here, there's not a whole lot we can do about that - any more than Mr. Hankey can stop the cheapshots at ATZ on his forum. Tell him to get over it.

One more quick note for everybody: Somebody who doesn't realize spreading a "nasty" rumor is as evil as starting one has aparently been telling people that if they go from ATZ to another Lefora forum, they'll get a computer virus. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. If anybody gets a computer virus, there's a good chance it came from elsewhere.

Lefora is a growing company, and even if it were possible for somebody on this forum to affect the computers of anybody on another forum, they wouldn't allow it. Neither will Anderson Talkzone. Just to be sure that's clear, let me say that anybody caught even TRYING to use this Lefora forum to damage or compromise another member's computer will be banned for life. No exceptions..

JD, I wasn't told the virus or worm would come from ATZ and it was a pretty serious threat.  The instant responses on HF made it clear there was some truth to the rumor.

Confused, Hankey's response to your post was, in his usual inimitable way, that nobody should worry about such a thing - that Lefora had it covered if there is such a threat. That's the same thing I just posted, although I bluntly told you there's no truth to the rumor and he hedged his bet. (He did tell everybody to use a firewall - great advice for everybody.)

But I'll say again, people who spread such baseless rumors for sport are evil. Remember that the next time you see whoever passed it on to you, okay?

Posters from ATZ are more than welcome - encouraged, even - to participate on other forums, and other than ones who have gotten themselves banned here for their actions here, all posters on any Lefora forum are welcome here. Certainly nobody here has any control over that, nor would we want to.

HOWEVER, if you use another forum to disparage ATZ, to spread rumors, or to stir up discontent here, don't be surprised if you eventually are not welcome here. Last I heard, even unmoderated forums don't have any fondness for backstabbers and forum trolls who aren't happy unless everybody is stirred up over something.

Confused, if you ever have any sort of computer problem that you think might have originated with a Lefora forum, please either notify them or have one of us notify them on your behalf. I'm sure they would work quickly to close any holes in their security system, because they have far more at stake than we have.

In other words, Confused, your rumor is more potentially more damaging to Lefora than to Anderson Talkzone. That's why I needed to address it here, not because I really care one way or another what you or anybody else says on another forum. I left elementary school in the spring of 1964 on my way to adulthood, so I pay little attention to those who didn't make it much beyond eighth grade mentally or emotionally. (And that's not aimed at you, Confused.)

Anyway, Lefora deserves better than to be harmed by careless posters who take advantage of their free services.

Have a nice evening.

Prevail, I'm sorry you don't think it's fun here anymore. Personally, though, I've always been able to have tons of fun without having to resort to taunting people, but, then, I grew up during a time when politicians and their supporters actually RESPECTED each other.

Having said that, I think your post deserves a response and, while I'm at it, an explanation of how the moderator/administrtor bit is set up at present. You seem to have a number of misconceptions. Let's clarify them.

At present, all five - PAPPY, IBVirginia, Merrymacsc, Art Kaldas and myself - have the ability to serve as moderators. That means any of the five of us, in addition to being able to post as always, have the ability to delete posts and to send warnings to anyone who is disrupting the forum or violating TOS rules.

Four of those five - all but Art, and that will change soon - also have "administrative" abilities, which means we can do everything a moderator can do, PLUS we can delete entire threads, ban members either temporarily or permanently, review site statistics, change the look of the site, move topics and threads, control settings - and change the status of any other member, including himself or herself.

That last part is the safeguard here. If any of the other three who have administrative powers thinks I've overstepped my boundaries, he or she can change my status to "moderator" or "member" with a couple of keystrokes. See, contrary to conventional wisdom here, this isn't an "autocratic" system where one or the other of us is "God." It's a team.

To date, the JDTippett screen name is the only one that has actually used the "administrative" function, and every case but one it was after consultation with at least two of the other four (in the latlter case, we ultimately had four in favor and one who didn't vote.)

You are probably correct that having too many people exercise the "administrative" function would be problematic because of the possibility of having one administrator undo the action of another without realizing it. In theory, that could happen right now. In reality, it won't.

At some point in the future, we'll probably rotate the administrative function around (always with two, in case one gets run over by a truck or something) to avoid the perception that there are to many chiefs here. We're also considering using screen names like "Moderator1" and "Moderator2" so nobody will know exactly which one pulled the trigger when a member has to be eliminated. (That's a figure of speech, people. Don't take it literally.)

Now, as for the moderators themselves. Nick Charalambous selected the panel of moderators from, I assume, several lists of suggestions from various people. Some accepted, some didn't, some of us () wound up in this role because we missed the organizational meeting and got nominated anyway.

The five were chosen in part because of political leanings. PAPPY and IBVirginia lean to the left, Merrymacsc and I lean to the right, and Art (even though his reputation here is different) works hard to find the middle ground and to seek out all the facts whenever he can before taking a firm stance.

We also, all five of us, understand that a forum like this one - which at one time was widely read in the community bue, granted, has slipped lately in its level of respect - cannot survive as a community forum without moderation. Our intent has always been that the forum be "lightly" moderated, and that is the goal for the future. However, we have all been challenged by a combination of "anti-moderation" members for whom nothing short of total chaos would be accepted and by several groups intent on bringing old battles from other battlegrounds onto Anderson Talkzone.

The bottom line is that we do the best we can, sometimes under difficult circumstances. I'm sorry you don't respect all of us, but there's little we can do about that. We are all as defensive of free speech as you are, I can assure you, but we're equally insistent that free speech carries with it a requirement for responsibility. It's something some people, sadly, will never understand.

We - the moderators - all respect each other, and I think all of us respect the vast majority of the members who post here. In your particular case, I sometimes don't think you'll ever respect anybody whose political opinions aren't in lockstep with yours, and that's unfortunation.

Nevertheless, moderation isn't about whether we agree with you or don't agree with you, or whether you respect us or don't respect us. It's about making sure you hone the sharp edges off those opinions before you throw them out in a public forum, and it's about not demeaning other members simply because you disagree with them.

On, and one other little note here. If your goal is to pit the moderators against one other in an attempt to divide conquer, you will fail. Period.

How tough can that really be to understand?