[meteorite-list] (No More) One-Ad Per Week Rule

From: Gary Chase <garychase_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:33:53 -0700
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You would not believe how many people emailed me directly in support of cal=
ling out Cottingscam on his spamming of the list.
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Just wait=2C a few have expressed support of my suggestion to posting "me t=
oo" ads right after the scammer posts more than his one per week allotment.
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If it is OK to ignore the one ad per week rule then why not other rules?
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I like flame wars=2C I know it is against the rules but I guess under your =
guidelines it would be OK to start one=2C right Dean? Rules were meant to=
 be broken=2C Right Dean?
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This list is quickly decending into anarchy.
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Gary
> Date: Thu=2C 15 Oct 2009 12:13:11 -0700
> From: deanbessey at yahoo.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (No More) One-Ad Per Week Rule
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> <The fact seems to be forgotten that a consensus was taken by Art about a=
dvertising in his forum. Advertising is a privilege=2C not a right and Art =
was considering having no ads at all due to abuse. The consensus=2C at the =
time=2C was that way too many ads were being posted and that one-ad-per-wee=
k should be a rule. List members input was taken into account so this was n=
ot only Art's wishes but the majority of other members as well.> <SNIP>
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> This is flat out wrong. There never was any consensus. Art went on record=
 as saying that he did not mind ads.
> What happened was that 4 or 5 people decided that they would hijack Art's=
 list as if it was their own and decide to prevent people from making "to m=
any" (Whatever that means) ads. After months and months of bombarding the l=
ist with anti ad attack postings Art basically tried to shut up the malcont=
ents that dont appriciate the fact that they have the privelidge being a pa=
rt of what is basically the best online meteorite forum and said "OK=2C one=
 a week".=20
> Then=2C rather than shut up=2C these 4 or 5 people decide to declare them=
selves sherrif and kept going on with this anti ad campaign and even the mo=
st minor offence (Even during big shows like tucson and munich) was enough =
to make attack postings. They decided to continue making an ass of themselv=
es and continue their efforts to hijack arts list as if it was their own.
> Then after people started leaving the list because of all these attack po=
stings they had the gall to claim that "They left because of the ads". (The=
 fact that people werent leaving before their hijacking and attacking effor=
ts is conveniently ignored).
> Nobody leaves this list because of the ads (Well there may have been 2 or=
 3 people who left because they are to stupid to use the delete button or b=
lock sender button in their email settings and dislaike the fact that peopl=
e are allowed to own meteorites like the cultural property people in some g=
overnments but its an insignificant few). People leave because of the bicke=
ring. Dont try and twist it around that its not because of those 4 or 5 peo=
ple that is basically ruining things for everybody.
> Becides why are you 4 or 5 people constantly harrassing the other 1000 of=
 us with your diatrabes? An iq of about six would enable you to understand =
that the only person who matters is art so why dont you email him rather th=
an the rest of us who cant do anything even if we did buy the fact that you=
 somehow have the right to unilaterally declare yourselves sherrif even tho=
ugh you have no ownership or control of this list?
> The answer of course is that Art has the smarts to ignore the whackos.
> Nobody is forcing anybody to be a part of this list. You dont even need a=
rts permission to leave. You can do it yourself.
> Stop this assanine BS and let us talk meteorites and have sales. If you h=
ave a problem dont complain to the other 1000 of us.
> And the "Majority consensus" that you refer to is about the same as what =
the "Majority consensus" of an iranian election would be. It is flat out no=
t the will of the majority of list members or the list owner but the will o=
f 4 or 5 people who wants to run the list as they see fit (Like the afterma=
t of an Iranian election).
> I suspect that cottingshams lastest excessive postings are designed to en=
tertain and see how big an ass that certain paople can make of themselves b=
y complaining about them. Some people has posted 2 anti ad attacks for ever=
y one of cottingshams supposedly excessive ads. The other 1000 of us are su=
rely happy about that.
> Go away. The consensus of the silent majority dont want to listen to your=
 attacks anymore
> Sincerely
> DEAN
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