I agree with Curtis on this one, but TurquoiseB is in fact lucky still to be here. He should have been given a red card some weeks ago when he falsely accused, in a specially created subject line, another FFL member of advocating murder on this forum and giving that poster's real name, at a time when that poster was using an anonymous handle. TurquoiseB did this deliberately to defame the individual concerned forever via the Google search engine. He actually gloated over this very point. If that was not a malicious action then the word has no meaning. He should have been expelled. I believe he later deleted his own post but some of the damage had already been done.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote : I object to this overreach of moderator power into content censorship by a blatant misread of the explicit intention of this guidline. The guideline applies to members of the list, and David lynch is not a member, he is a public figure. He is not being "degraded" because he will never read this and that is not the intention of the guidleline anyway. You are attempting to censor content to your own subjective standard inappropriately by misreading the guideline to apply to a personal opinion about a public figure. Mentioning that it is a non sequitur to the post is also a misread of the intentions of the guidelines which does not address this at all since adding new points is the nature of a public forum. Calling it "exploitative" is also a misread of the meaning of the word. Barry is "exploiting" nothing by posting his opinion about a public figure and his actual actions. Please read what Barry wrote and weigh in if the community believes this is an outrageous comment that needs the intervention of moderators: What Barry actually wrote: This is amazing. You read through this and you think, "How could anyone possibly BE so gullible as to fall for this?" But then you think about people like David Lynch, who was so gullible he paid Maharishi a million dollars so that he could attend an "Enlightenment Course," and then Maharishi didn't even have the courtesy to show up in person to teach it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Additionally, “Exploitative or degrading comments are not welcome in Groups.” “..and don't invade other people's privacy.” The dragging of someone in to an unrelated thread as a means to slur them using FFL, a yahoo-group.. Whoa, for instance DLynch as a practitioner of TM worked with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi quite a lot on the teaching of TM quite evidently for good reasons and quite evidently Lynch knew well enough the scope of the 'what for and why' he was there. Quite evidently Turqb here is actively trying to slur and degrade DLynch personally by jumping in to this thread with an unqualified non sequitur posting publicly using [ 'exploitative' ] a Yahoo-group [FFL]. Now in a choice of moderation Turqb can go back in and delete this posting of his post haste and protect his membership status here or will this be left to the FFL moderators to go in and do it? The choice is Turq's. -JaiGuruYou reference: FFL# 416332 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : “ ..and don't invade other people's privacy.” In going forward in accord with Rick's original intent for protecting privacy on FFL know that in responding [replying] to posts made on FFL an unsolicited use of someone's legal name on FFL is an invasion of privacy as it also is considered a violation of the yahoo-groups guidelines here. Expect to have your writing removed from FFL. Expect to have your posts moderated. Expect to have your membership revoked if such invasion of people's privacy continues either as by impulse without intent or with meditated intent to abuse someone by invasion of privacy as used in method. For instance, as people signing on to FFL do post and people do respond with replies then for example in reply: 'Turqb isTurqb', 'Fleetwood is Fleetwood', 'CDB is CDB', 'Serious is Serious', 'Buck is Buck', 'Nablusoss is Nablusoss', and 'Authfriend is Authfriend'. Whatever their legal names in life may be, now going forward you shall be moderate in this as Rick originally intended. Show self-restraint and respect for other people's privacy here. Simple. That is part of the communal collaboration asked for in making this a particular free-speech zone as it was hoped for. Have a nice day, -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Thanks A., good to know. In going forward with moderation on FFL, protection of privacy has always been a mainstay feature of FFL as Rick's free speech list. This feature of protection has been under siege and fallen to a form of a disrespect used by some writers on FFL. Everyone take this as a warning right now going forward: where someone posting to the list uses an anonymous screen name it is quite proper form on FFL as a yahoo-group to respond to posts using a person's screen name and make no mention of their real name otherwise. -JaiGuruYou!
