Where"s gary ???

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fc3 said:
Respect has to be earned. It is not given. That would be false respect known as patronizing. The ones who get slammed are the ones who do nothing to earn respect. Frank
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This seems to be at the upper end of the BS meter scale.
 
I can't wait for the election to be over - then I think some of the holding tank stuff will cool off.

That being said the censoring is what drove me away from some of the other forums. I think the forum has been the right balance. There are people here that give bad advice. But overall most people are honest with their limits.
 
My opinion?

Popular or not, what I am about to say I have to say, because thats just the way I am.

If you go to a moderator AT ALL, I feel you are pretty much a wuss. It is just too easy to go crying to mamma instead of PM-ing someone and tell them how you feel about a post.

I have never, ever, once in all of my years on bb's or the internet even thought about goign to a moderator to complain about anything, and with my personality I have been called many a name and had many a personal attack.

Sorry, I know this rubs some the wrong way. But Im up front. What you see is what ya get.

Was Gary over the line? Perhaps. Personally, if it was me in the urinal, I would have laughed and posted one up on him if I could.

Gary is a valuable resource. Yea, probably goes too far sometimes, but so what? So the brunt of his going too far should be met with equal if not greater responses.
 
billandamy said:
My opinion?

Popular or not, what I am about to say I have to say, because thats just the way I am.

If you go to a moderator AT ALL, I feel you are pretty much a wuss. It is just too easy to go crying to mamma instead of PM-ing someone and tell them how you feel about a post.

I have never, ever, once in all of my years on bb's or the internet even thought about goign to a moderator to complain about anything, and with my personality I have been called many a name and had many a personal attack.

Sorry, I know this rubs some the wrong way. But Im up front. What you see is what ya get.

Was Gary over the line? Perhaps. Personally, if it was me in the urinal, I would have laughed and posted one up on him if I could.

Gary is a valuable resource. Yea, probably goes too far sometimes, but so what? So the brunt of his going too far should be met with equal if not greater responses.
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What "bilandamy" said.....times 10. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
I'm not aware of the accusasions being made here. I'm just glad that just so happen to stumble across the urinal pic this weekend. I took it as good-buddy humor? Again I was not aware of any serious bad blood. His knowledge on things is helpful though!
 
billandamy said:
My opinion?

Popular or not, what I am about to say I have to say, because thats just the way I am.

If you go to a moderator AT ALL, I feel you are pretty much a wuss. It is just too easy to go crying to mamma instead of PM-ing someone and tell them how you feel about a post.

I have never, ever, once in all of my years on bb's or the internet even thought about goign to a moderator to complain about anything, and with my personality I have been called many a name and had many a personal attack.

Sorry, I know this rubs some the wrong way. But Im up front. What you see is what ya get.

Was Gary over the line? Perhaps. Personally, if it was me in the urinal, I would have laughed and posted one up on him if I could.

Gary is a valuable resource. Yea, probably goes too far sometimes, but so what? So the brunt of his going too far should be met with equal if not greater responses.
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"PM-ing someone and tell them how you feel about a post."

+1
 
billandamy said:
My opinion?

Popular or not, what I am about to say I have to say, because thats just the way I am.

If you go to a moderator AT ALL, I feel you are pretty much a wuss. It is just too easy to go crying to mamma instead of PM-ing someone and tell them how you feel about a post.

I have never, ever, once in all of my years on bb's or the internet even thought about goign to a moderator to complain about anything, and with my personality I have been called many a name and had many a personal attack.

Sorry, I know this rubs some the wrong way. But Im up front. What you see is what ya get.

Was Gary over the line? Perhaps. Personally, if it was me in the urinal, I would have laughed and posted one up on him if I could.

Gary is a valuable resource. Yea, probably goes too far sometimes, but so what? So the brunt of his going too far should be met with equal if not greater responses.
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I agree with you on the tattling to the moderators. Whether a person PMs or fires back direct in the thread makes no difference to me. I also feel that Garys CSR persona would be missed. I like it. Maybe BK should have posted a pic of Gary but how would you one up the pee pic, maybe smear some dog shit on it I suppose.
Whatever the case they would both be guilty of crossing the minimal CSR boundaries. So they would both be scolded and given demerits as happened to Gary. So now what, do you sit in the corner with your dunce cap on and dream of bigger and better or do you take your posts and go home? Pouting isn't cool.
 
mrsrobinson said:
"PM-ing someone and tell them how you feel about a post."

+1
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Seems more like PMSing someone about how you feel. But whatever. Probably the same for the panties in a wad crowd.
 
Woody said:
So they would both be scolded and given demerits as happened to Gary. So now what, do you sit in the corner with your dunce cap on and dream of bigger and better or do you take your posts and go home? Pouting isn't cool.
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:thumbsup:
 
So if a new member joins CSR, one who has tons of knowledge related to his/her boat and/or the industry, makes a post or replies to a post, and is immediately told he/she is ignorant, stupid or wrong <insert your favotie negative phrase/word here>, decides this is not a good home for him/her based on the negative replies and never comes back, this is OK? From the responses I read here I am hearing it is OK because he is weak.

Maybe he/she is not weak. Maybe he/she is new to forums, new to then internet, perhaps a little old school if you will and just doesn't get the wit, the challenge, the negative stuff and probably never will. This person does not have the history everyone else has and cannot quickly see the humor or the fun in a off-topic negative reply. It's OK to applaud the CSR member who replied with sarcasm/wit/humor and let a valuable resource walk away?

I share this as this is exactly what happened to a good boating friend of mine with his first reply. I encouraged him to join and quite honestly I was embarassed with the way he was treated with his first reply. This man has helped me more times than I can remember. He's been in our bildge, in the water under our boat, helping without asking many times. He is the kind of soul that would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. He would have added a lot of value to this forum. But because of the voice of a few, and the applauding afterwards, he walked away. I actually found myself apologizing to him.
 
mrsrobinson said:
So if a new member joins CSR, one who has tons of knowledge related to his/her boat and/or the industry, makes a post or replies to a post, and is immediately told he/she is ignorant, stupid or wrong <insert your favotie negative phrase/word here>, decides this is not a good home for him/her based on the negative replies and never comes back, this is OK? From the responses I read here I am hearing it is OK because he is weak.
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Since you did not reference the post a questions or two:

1. Was the reply/post valid?

2. What type of boat does your friend have? (Sea Ray/ Non Sea Ray)

3. Did he introduce himself or did he just jump in and start replying to post?


Back on topic...

Gary when are you going to update you blog?:huh:
 
chuck1 said:
Since you did not reference the post a questions or two:

1. Was the reply/post valid?

2. What type of boat does your friend have? (Sea Ray/ Non Sea Ray)

3. Did he introduce himself or did he just jump in and start replying to post?


Back on topic...

Gary when are you going to update you blog?:huh:
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It took him all day to figure out how to join, not an internet savy guy. I put him in touch with Jim for assistance. Jim got him going and he WAS very excited.

He owns a Sea Ray, I introduced him and yes the post was valid IMHO.
 
mrsrobinson said:
So if a new member joins CSR, one who has tons of knowledge related to his/her boat and/or the industry, makes a post or replies to a post, and is immediately told he/she is ignorant, stupid or wrong <insert your favotie negative phrase/word here>, decides this is not a good home for him/her based on the negative replies and never comes back, this is OK? From the responses I read here I am hearing it is OK because he is weak.

Maybe he/she is not weak. Maybe he/she is new to forums, new to then internet, perhaps a little old school if you will and just doesn't get the wit, the challenge, the negative stuff and probably never will. This person does not have the history everyone else has and cannot quickly see the humor or the fun in a off-topic negative reply. It's OK to applaud the CSR member who replied with sarcasm/wit/humor and let a valuable resource walk away?

I share this as this is exactly what happened to a good boating friend of mine with his first reply. I encouraged him to join and quite honestly I was embarassed with the way he was treated with his first reply. This man has helped me more times than I can remember. He's been in our bildge, in the water under our boat, helping without asking many times. He is the kind of soul that would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. He would have added a lot of value to this forum. But because of the voice of a few, and the applauding afterwards, he walked away. I actually found myself apologizing to him.
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Please reference the thread with a valid link.
 
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