I don't know what got into him. Got to know him from the UK mantis forums and invited him over because his views and experiences were interesting. I had no idea that he'll take every criticism so personally.
What happened to zoe's topic reguarding mantis vomit?
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ismart
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My bad Rick! I just wanted to know what happened is all.Who said it was deleted? You just can't see it for the time being. Let's not turn this one into the same situation.
If it does end up being deleted i can see why, name calling, really? Thats weak! 
It's probably a good thing it was set to invisible at that point. It got terribly ugly quick, earlier in another thread, with the new member telling Phil in extra large sized, bold red letters to "go ef himself." Rick was right on that one, but he can't sit there all day and wait for the next explosive breach in decorum. Making the threads invisible ended the continuation of unfortunately interesting and worthy topics; but ones that had gone off topic and degraded to the point any additional offensive and vulgar outbursts needed to be stopped. I'll have to say, Rick does a heck of a job moderating.
ZoeRipper
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I personally think it was stupid to have a fight about, honestly. It was a good informative thread up untill certain things went insane-crazy. I honestly wish it wouldn't have gone south, I got alot of information from good people and in the future if this happens again, I will know what to do.
Edit: I too agree that Rick is a damn good mod.
Edit: I too agree that Rick is a damn good mod.
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revmdn
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Yes he does Becky, I second that.
PhilinYuma
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Ha ha, Katt! How did I miss his personal suggestion?! I'm not exactly sure of what it means, but I think that it is short for "go, efface yourself" as in "what a nice, friendly, self effacing fellow he is!"It's probably a good thing it was set to invisible at that point. It got terribly ugly quick, earlier in another thread, with the new member telling Phil in extra large sized, bold red letters to "go ef himself." Rick was right on that one, but he can't sit there all day and wait for the next explosive breach in decorum. Making the threads invisible ended the continuation of unfortunately interesting and worthy topics; but ones that had gone off topic and degraded to the point any additional offensive and vulgar outbursts needed to be stopped. I'll have to say, Rick does a heck of a job moderating.
ismart
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I completly missed that one! :blink: Infact i'm gald i missed that one! :angry: I would have either been banned, or have a ###### load of warn points! :angry: That is absolutely ridiculous!It's probably a good thing it was set to invisible at that point. It got terribly ugly quick, earlier in another thread, with the new member telling Phil in extra large sized, bold red letters to "go ef himself." Rick was right on that one, but he can't sit there all day and wait for the next explosive breach in decorum. Making the threads invisible ended the continuation of unfortunately interesting and worthy topics; but ones that had gone off topic and degraded to the point any additional offensive and vulgar outbursts needed to be stopped. I'll have to say, Rick does a heck of a job moderating.
Your the best Phil! :lol:Ha ha, Katt! How did I miss his personal suggestion?! I'm not exactly sure of what it means, but I think that it is short for "go, efface yourself" as in "what a nice, friendly, self effacing fellow he is!"
Peter Clausen
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I re-opened one of the threads and have to find the other one tomorrow to clean up if it's even salvageable. I think the 2nd thread was just a repeat of the first though (without the content).
By the way, if anybody is ever curious about what's going on behind the scenes, you're welcome to ask one of the mods. For those that don't already know, we have a private moderator forum where we discuss how to deal with difficult issues that arise. We don't always have time to manage a problem on the spot and usually we have to communicate and agree amongst ourselves and our various schedules before we can do anything. In this case it took a day and a half to communicate, make a decision and clean up and reopen the thread (and ban a member).
Our policy is to set a questionable post or thread to invisible until we all have a chance to review it. Occasionally, this "rule" is broken, but not without some prior (or post) discussion.
Rick IS awesome!
By the way, if anybody is ever curious about what's going on behind the scenes, you're welcome to ask one of the mods. For those that don't already know, we have a private moderator forum where we discuss how to deal with difficult issues that arise. We don't always have time to manage a problem on the spot and usually we have to communicate and agree amongst ourselves and our various schedules before we can do anything. In this case it took a day and a half to communicate, make a decision and clean up and reopen the thread (and ban a member).
Our policy is to set a questionable post or thread to invisible until we all have a chance to review it. Occasionally, this "rule" is broken, but not without some prior (or post) discussion.
Rick IS awesome!
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ismart
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Just learned something new!
Thanks Peter for clearing that up. I should have just PM a mod. I can be quite slow at times.
