Old Skool CG Reunion Thread

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by 33girl

As far as JAM, if I remember, it was something in the politics thread that she took completely the wrong way, not a "nest of vipers." I don't remember ANY personal attacks - everyone pretty much loved her. If you can't separate the person from the opinion where politics are concerned, you need to stay OUT of political discussions. Period.

As far as Tom, I supported him as long as I could - because he's from a different generation and I understand that, I dealt with it with my parents - but it got to the point where no matter who said it or how nicely they said it, he didn't get it and just wanted to do whatever. There was a nutjob supposedly AIing my sorority and he didn't understand why I didn't want her encouraged or why I didn't want the thread deleted. What she was posting was injurious to my sorority (i.e. implying that we found the nutburger in question suitable for membership) and he JUST. DIDN'T. GET. IT. That's when I got off the bus.

We should have never created that AI forum in the first place, but by the same token, he should have been cognizant enough to realize that his moderating a forum that was 99.9% NPC membership questions was no more appropriate than my moderating the (example) Kappa Alpha Psi forum would be. Instead he held onto it and refused to listen to any suggestions.

I miss him being a productive (if odd) member of GC, but he's shown by his subsequent actions and affiliations that banning him in his current state of mind was probably the right decision.

Exactly. If I recall correctly, JAM posted a political joke that had been determined in an earlier thread to be incorrect. When called out on it by conservatives AND liberals, she took her ball and went home. She just didn't like being disagreed with. Let's not forget that. If anything, JAM was a universally loved member of GC.

As far as Earp, the first 5-7 years, he was coherent and okay--more like the crazy old uncle. Over time, he got more and more offensive--and used his friendship with someone off of GC to jeopardize someone's membership. This happened more than once. Earp of 2000? Kind of miss him. Earp of 2008? Can't stand him.

[dekeguy]

[QUOTE=Munchkin03;2029334]Exactly. If I recall correctly, JAM posted a political joke that had been determined in an earlier thread to be incorrect. When called out on it by conservatives AND liberals, she took her ball and went home. She just didn't like being disagreed with. Let's not forget that. If anything, JAM was a universally loved member of GC.
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First: Honest question, please: by 'incorrect' do you mean PC or something else? I am not sure how that was meant. I'm not trying to be provocative here, just trying to figure this out.

Second: I also thought JAM was a universally loved member, but she told me via non-GC email that she had received several PMs that were nasty and personal and she was both hurt and offended. I asked her to stay on but she said it was time to withdraw. I miss her sage advice and words of encouragement and have never understood how the whole thing went down.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Peter

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by dekeguy

First: Honest question, please: by 'incorrect' do you mean PC or something else? I am not sure how that was meant. I'm not trying to be provocative here, just trying to figure this out.

Second: I also thought JAM was a universally loved member, but she told me via non-GC email that she had received several PMs that were nasty and personal and she was both hurt and offended. I asked her to stay on but she said it was time to withdraw. I miss her sage advice and words of encouragement and have never understood how the whole thing went down.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Peter

1. Factually incorrect. If I'm not mistaken, it was one of those Bush vs. Kerry e-mail forwards that had inaccuracies about both politicians. In fact, I believe it had already been discussed in another thread about being factually incorrect. People on both sides mentioned that it was incorrect and she took her ball and went home.

2. As far as mean PMs, we get them all the time. When I came here 11 years ago, I remember getting ridiculous PMs from B/MCGLO members questioning my decision to join an NPC group. I'm still here, none of those people are. It comes down to ignoring that shit.

[Lil' Hannah]

This has been rehashed in other GC circle jerk threads, but JAM made this thread with an e-mail forward she received, people argued about the content of the post/e-mail, and shortly thereafter she left. She made a few one off posts about hypocrisy, etc. then later came back and posted in this thread that her departure had nothing to do with the aforementioned thread and that she had just outgrown the board and had moved on.