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I tried to move the original thread but it is in cyberspace somewhere.

Aaron was the name of the young man in the accident. He had serious head trauma part of his head was crushed. The prognosis was that he would be nothing more than a vegetable for the rest of his life.

Well about a month or so ago, he came out of his coma. He was responding to simple motor skill tests.

Well yesterday my friend, that had called me to put the request in, was at work. And who do you think came walking into her office, Aaron. He has made an almost complete recovery. He asked my friend to pass on his complete thanks for the prayers. They have literally saved his life.

He still has some rehab to do, but this weekend he is going with a team of "doctors without borders" to help some ailing people in Mexico.

So from Aaron, Thanks to all.

I believe mine was between 50k and 100k.

If TWI wants to know what would make me happy, a check returning the ABS to me would be a good start.

I'm experimenting with some styles to do the forum listings in less space

And if you look at the top of the column, it is the last TOPIC started not the last post.

Thanks

This is the body of an email sent recently to a GS poster.

I addressed this in a post last week, but felt that it should be given it's own thread. This was written by one of the moderators.

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* You are receiving a notification from www.gscafe.com that you have a new message in your private topics.

* You can elect to be notified by email, or you can elect (in your "preferences") to not receive notifications

* You can view the Private Topic message by opening the email, you will be linked directly to the Private Topic that you received the message on

* If you want to reply to the Private Topic message, you must hit the "Reply" button at the bottom of the last post on the Private Topic itself, just as if you are replying to a post on a regular thread.

* Do not hit the "reply" button on your email

* Since the email is coming from gscafe.com, and not the person you are having a Private Topic with, hitting the email "Reply" button will cause moderator@gscafe.com to come up in the "TO" field

* You have two options: one is that you can go to the Private message thread itself, and click on the "Reply" button at the bottom of all the posts. A message box will pop up, just like the ones that come up when you reply to a regular post on a regular thread, when you have typed what you want, hit the "Post" button and your message will be posted in the Private Topic thread - only you and the other person can see this

* The other option, if you want to use the email, is when moderator@gscafe.com pops up in your email's "TO" field, delete it and type in the address of the person you want to send to. If you do not know their address, you are limited to option one.

You are doing this to yourself, you can see for yourself that moderator@gscafe.com is coming up in the "TO" field...why are you still sending it. This message, and a previous one did not go to ******* as you intended, but came to our email address, because you sent it there.

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Some Ramblings

I see that PART of the dilemna is quoting something from another site. It is almost impossible to get the complete context.

As OE said, (paraphrasing) What I do outside of GS is my business. That is so true. I don't think it is fair to anyone to quote from one site and then post on it. The JW site has it's own set of rules (and yes it does have rules) and Raf's site has a set of rules and depending on who you talk to GS either has too many or not enough.

JW site is quoting from GS and LES. I can't and won't stop something that is a person's right. I posted something at LES to make a point to a number of people that seemed angry about GS not being a Christian site and it is seeping over here. I hadn't really thought about that since it really only addressed issues that some of the newer posters at Raf's site had and none of the information was secret or new. Cross forum quoting is new to GS and I don't know if it is a problem or not. The biggest issue that I see is "context".

So all that I can do is deal with this site. I joined Raf's site as a means of support and may post occasionally, just as I did on 1000screen name's site (his site is still open by the way, keeping us all abreast on a daily basis of the number of shopping days until Christmas). I don't have the time to join the JW site, although I have read some of the posts. I know what this site is about and don't want to be like any of the other sites.

I have my mission and to be honest, it was designed for people to get info and if they want stay and if they don't move on. Many friendships have been made at the cafe and if the forums closed today, it would have been well worth it. But it is not going to close. I am not going to ban people that post BS about GS on other sites. I don't have the time or energy to even think about that.

As far as "selectively" enforcing the rules, if I am guilty of that, I truly apologize. I always have expected this site to be a great experience for all that come here. I miss things as do the moderators. It is not intentional. And if it does happen, please email me or alert me.

If you are leaving the site and are dissatisfied, drop me a line and tell me why if you have the time.

WAX ON WAX OFF

I get about an equal number of complaints that I am too involved and make too many rules. Strangely enough I get about the same number of compliments that the rules are great and the hands off approach is wonderful. So based on feedback, I am always clear as mud on how everyone feels. I follow what I think is the best way to deal with situations. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I have a number of friends that are all members of the board that I run things by. I generally try to look at any "rule" through the eyes of others. It is ultimately subjective. Sometimes people give me ideas that accomplish the task and disarm the poster with humor.

I'll be back later with some more... BBQ... I have my priorities.

Chuck and Zix,

I am closing this thread and will send it away. The two of you need to either PT or email.

I haven't put any new guidelines in.

Noone can read your private topics but the invited members. When you get an email notification, you should come to the site to do the reply. The email is just a notification and not a means of replying unless you click on the link that brings you to the message.

Enforcement is not selective.

new threads can't be started in the silly forum, yet.

I was using it as a place to put silly threads and let them live a life of their own free from the clutter of real life situations.

Cknapp,

I sent you a PT and you haven't responded at all. You are out of line as far as your last post. You are attacking Zix and quite honestly is he wrong?

MJ,

Great food for thought.

Well it certainly seemed unlike you.

Maybe it is time to change your password.

Here is his picture

http://gscafe.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=9...06814#176106814

Don't think so Zix.

I have been doing some stuff behind the scenes and have linked the content alerts to it. It is a new email address that all the moderators will have access to. With a half dozen sets of eyes reading the alerts when they come across, it should speed up the response time to them.

Zix,

take the context of the quote. It was addressed at MC to stop the snipes at you.

We have publicly and privately disagreed many times you know that. To fill out the quote would have been something like this, "while I strongly disagree with Zix many times, I try not to make personal attacks such as you are doing MC" Is that better?

CKnapp,

I think it had to do with a quote from Penn and Teller.

I take a weekend off ...

Mary,

I disagree strongly with Zix, but these rhymes are pretty close to attacks.

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Zix,

I do have to say for all your complaining, in the days in question you didn't alert me on any problem posts.... You want to see it made better then follow the suggestion I made ages ago, alert me about a problem. It is far better than complaining days later.

Wordwolf and a number of others have been vitally helpful in alerting me.

P-Mosh,

I appreciate your input. I will take them into consideration.

Jen-o,

Unfortunately it is true about not being able to reply with web-tv. When I was looking for a forum I could not find one that included web-tv and had the features that I needed.

As to your disappearing post, I don't know what happened, but I would suggest that you copy the entire post before clicking on "post now"

must be English, a limey cat.

jen-o,

Dougie was not banned. and you have the facts rather construed.

Zix,

If you are going to leave, then leave. This is based on the following posted by you

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The site won't suffer a bit without me. It might disappoint a couple of people, but it certainly won't come crashing down because of the loss of one poster. We've lost good (and bad) people before and it carried on just fine. However, when a large number of unrelated people get disgruntled at the same time, it doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure out that there's a problem that needs to be addressed for the good of the remaining folks.

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I know you are intelligent. But you have presented a skewed poll. If GS irritates you that much, I would suggest walking away. I don't know what your motivation is and honestly I don't care. From what you have presented you seem to just want attention and not interested in solutions.

Zix,

noone thinks you stuffed the ballot. I do think that you are drawing conclusions that just aren't true.

The "son of a bitch" stuff... well as you and I well know changes on a daily and sometimes hourly basis.

I don't see that another view point is invalid. I think it is a good thing. I may not have done some of the things the ex-JW's did by posting the derogatory comments on another site. But there is NOTHING I can do about that. I get dragged in the mud on other sites and I just go in and state my position and that is that.

I think cooling down may be a good thing to do right now. As the cyber police say, "Step away from the keyboard"

There is no issue to address, Zix.

Have they violated any rules?

You started a weighted poll based on very vague concept that is aimed toward the longevity of TV series. Your thesis, at best, was a list of dislikes, not issues to address.

And most people that have legitimate issues email me or PT me rather than hang it out in public.