Three Part Essay on the Duke Lacrosse Case

[JoanOfDark]

Yes, I disabled them so posters couldn't spread around the personal information that was deleted here. I may turn them back on in a few days.

Talkleft, given that the "personal information" has been published elsewhere and we are now aware of your views on the issue, I am sure that nobody will seek to pass it around now, so would you now consider restoring the PM facility?

Thanks

Sarah

I agree with Sarah about the PM feature.

I have a picture of a "pretty lady" that is soon to go public, but I'd like to be able to share it with all my TalkLeft contacts first. So restoring the PM feature would be appreciated.

Thanks


Joan








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Kato would say: They are the enemy within.

[Sarah]

Yes, I disabled them so posters couldn't spread around the personal information that was deleted here. I may turn them back on in a few days.

Talkleft, given that the "personal information" has been published elsewhere and we are now aware of your views on the issue, I am sure that nobody will seek to pass it around now, so would you now consider restoring the PM facility?

Thanks

Sarah

I agree with Sarah about the PM feature.

I have a picture of a "pretty lady" that is soon to go public, but I'd like to be able to share it with all my TalkLeft contacts first. So restoring the PM feature would be appreciated.

Thanks


Joan

Ah!  Well at least we now know who you are!







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Kato would say: They are the enemy within.

[MikeKell]

Not sure what Joan is implying with posting her picture, but it doesn't sound legit.  "Dark" is clear, in my opinion, humble or otherwise.  I just don't know what it all means to want to post a picture. I didn't think that was proper in this forum?

[TalkLeft]

No, you can't post pictures here.

And, since Joan intends to use the pm feature to spread a photo around, rather than for its intended purpose, I'm not going to turn it back on yet. Perhaps she'd like to send it to me first so I can see if it's appropriate.

Some of you think you know who Joan is. I'm not seeing your suspicion confirmed in the stats or IP addresses. She does share an IP address with other users, but it may be an aol thing.

You can all report objectionable behavior to me. If anyone is abusing this forum, which I don't get to check very often as I'm busy on TalkLeft, feel free to let me know. I will stop it

 

[MikeKell]

Thanks.  It seems like "il ritorno di calza fantoccio" has taken on new meaning. 

All the best,

MikeKell

[MarkRougemont]

    Mike,
Can you let Baldo know that my account at LS has still not been approved by an admistrator despite having registered several days ago.  I can't post or send pm's there.  Hope you are doing well.

Mark

[MikeKell]

Mark,

My guess, and it is just a guess, is that the approval of new registrants has been held up by having to deal with a spate of obvious duplicates and fakes from poorly spoofed IP's.  I'm not a very good messenger. Sorry.

It might have other causes, but such a delay is understandable, initially.
Perhaps only nothing, yet Baldo only yesterday was saying how swamped he is. I
don't expect Baldo approves ninety nine percent of the new accounts, I just don't know.
Some others can keep pushing until people put everything together somehow.

Some helpers in the organization now think he extends certain approvals very easily.

Mike

[MarkRougemont]

  Thanks Mike,
I got my registration confirmation on April 30th, have checked almost every day and I can log in but not post or pm, still get a message that I must be approved by an administrator.  Not sure if being busy would account for that much of a delay and I am about to give up on that board. Most there will be pleased about that, hope some with similar problems will come back to this board or migrate to others that have a discussion of this case.

[MikeKell]

There is virtually no discussion here, so what is there to come back to?  No one logs in, it is almost always "0 members, 17 guests".  What would there be for people to discuss on this board? There has been almost no discernible traffic on this or the civil case board.

And the "other boards"?   It seems on-line conversation keeps pulling us, pushing people's extreme tender side, then all you get is reaction, recrimination, and overreaction.  That's not a discussion. How many months did people spend talking about the missing shoe that wasn't missing after all?

Gotta go.  Duke's playing Loyola this afternoon and I have a vested interest in the game.

Mike

[JoanOfDark]

There is virtually no discussion here, so what is there to come back to?  No one logs in, it is almost always "0 members, 17 guests".  What would there be for people to discuss on this board? There has been almost no discernible traffic on this or the civil case board.

And the "other boards"?   It seems on-line conversation keeps pulling us, pushing people's extreme tender side, then all you get is reaction, recrimination, and overreaction.  That's not a discussion. How many months did people spend talking about the missing shoe that wasn't missing after all?

Gotta go.  Duke's playing Loyola this afternoon and I have a vested interest in the game.

Mike

Would that be like the overreaction of those who posted the defamatory statements professing to know "for a fact" that a particular individual was responsible for "hacking" another forum, and then producing absolutely zero evidence to support this "fact"? 

Or how about those who run said forum, allowing what they believe is the personal information of the person whom they know "for a fact" hacked their forum, to be publicly posted (and remain posted to this day) as part of an hysterical overreaction to whatever technical problem said forum may have experienced.

How many months are people going to spend defaming this person for a crime that never happened at all?

Talk about recrimination and overreaction.


Pot, meet kettle.

[MikeKell]

Joan,

You have underlined precisely the problem I identified first and foremost. Surely, if my head only knew what my heart felt for sure.  Sort of like a secret grand jury in NC: evidence has been presented, just not to you. 

Mike (need to upload the pics from the game) Kell

[Sarah]

You seem very concerned about the alleged calumny Joan, almost as if you are taking it personally.

[MikeKell]

Slowly but surely the cleansing will continue, and eventually the gloves will come off as the wheels have come off.  I just don't know why some folks are so obsessed, trying to destroy things, asking the same question 400 times, and being so unproductive. If only there was a way to communicate with them.

Until then, the case will continue, civil or otherwise, and will become uncivil as soon as the first depositions are scheduled for real. But that is in another thread.

Mike

[gotproof]

Mark, I don't understand the standards by which people are added back in at liestoppers myself.  I rarely posted but read regularly.  I did nothing illicit on there.  I wasn't added back in and questioned it on the blog a couple of times lately in the comments section.  There is no other way to communicate with anyone as the email address for at least baldo does not work on the blog.  After waiting 3 weeks I expressed a bit of frustration on the liestoppers blog comment about not being added back in and the next thing I know my registration was deleted completely from the forum.   Apparently, I cannot register as well.  So, I guess it is safest just to bide your time.  BTW, I post as lec on liestoppers.

Since, I am feeling much better I should proably do more active things anyway.  I got an all clear on my last PET CT scan and don't have to go back to the oncologist for 3 months.

[JoanOfDark]

Slowly but surely the cleansing will continue, and eventually the gloves will come off as the wheels have come off.  I just don't know why some folks are so obsessed, trying to destroy things, asking the same question 400 times, and being so unproductive. If only there was a way to communicate with them.
Until then, the case will continue, civil or otherwise, and will become uncivil as soon as the first depositions are scheduled for real. But that is in another thread.

Mike

ET phone home.