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[JLC]

Oohhhhkay.....I'm honestly not sure what I did to deserve such vitriol from Sasquatch Art. I'm not going to quote her post because it will be edited shortly to fit our TOS standards, and infractions will be given as they would to anyone posting in that manner.

You were waiting to be "poked by the police"??? How so, exactly? Not that I expect an answer, because you said you wouldn't post again. But I can't help but ask...how were you "poked"???

As for Connie...she received the same infraction anyone would have for posting such an inappropriate link. The link was removed because it was inappropriate for BP.net content and against our TOS. There was nothing else IN the post to save...it was just the link...so it was deleted. The same thing has been done countless times before when a post contains nothing but material that has to be deleted anyhow.

In order for this site to stay up and running, it MUST have a staff, and that staff must have leadership. I'm quite sure there are some people who will try to point to other sites that run just fine with no staff or leadership...but they are not BP.net and the comparison is useless. SOMEone has to make judgment calls on matters of enforcing the site's TOS. The judgment we choose to rely on belong to a carefully selected group of individuals that make up our staff. It would be utterly impossible to try and customize every judgment call to each of the thousands of individuals that participate here. We can't use Pat's standard of judgment...or Andrew's...or Connie's...or Aaron's...or anyone else's, because they're ALL very different and they ALL come from a point of view that is completely lacking in the knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes.

We get accused of never admitting or correcting mistakes...but when that exact thing happens moments later, the person making such an accusation says nothing. We get accused of having double-standards with regards to bear-baiting infractions. And yet when challenged to show a single example where a member was unfairly infracted for bear-baiting because of a "rolling eye" or sarcastic tone....we get nothing. We get accused of playing favorites for someone like Connie, who was infracted and dealt with in the exact same manner as anyone else would have been in the exact same situation.

I'm quite honestly sick and tired of trying to defend every little action or word. It doesn't matter one whit what we say or do, those that don't want to trust us to do our job won't trust us. Those who want to criticize will find plenty to pick at because we're just humans. I'm not saying our poo doesn't stink, but I WILL NOT back down and whimper just because someone doesn't like something myself or a staff member has done. There have been plenty of times in our history where we have made mistakes, and when we do, we immediately rectify and apologize. Infractions have been reversed. Threads or comments restored. Public and/or private apologies made to members that have been wronged in some way. But just because we don't jump to apologize when YOU say we should does not mean we never do or will.

This site will continue just fine without the participation of the folks that despise the leadership so much. If you can't trust us to run the site, then please, step up and let your voice be heard and we will make that little problem go away really fast for you. Count on it.