Yeah... I usually like 16 bore's posts. Still do for the most part. Can't imagine a grown man needing to spend as much time as he has acting like a 3rd grader. No better (and a strong argument for being worse) than the person he is trying to shame...
Todd
Todd,
You have several others here that agree with you and share you sentiments... so I would like to extend this question to all of you. Todd is drawing a moral equivalence between 16 Bore posting old Stick threads and Stick behavior here today.
I must admit that dumbfounds me....
This has been going on for awhile now and this may be a good time to figure this out once and for all..... Fred, Jud and I spare with Stick on a regular basis and get roundly criticized for it... the same people who call us out never call Stick out for his behavior... why is that?
I know many people are fed up with Stick and his behavior.... a few post opinions ... as they should.
Maybe a year ago I put Stick on ignore and didn't respond directly to any of his post.. I did respond to people responding to his post and read a few of Sticks post due to the quote function, ignore does not hide those.
I did this as an experiment, the critics still gave me hell..... yet again Stick gets a pass.... this seems incredibly odd to me.
I have always spoke my mind, good or bad and it has caused me both grief & joy in my life... I have always stood up to bullies and mean arrogant people.... I think they need to be stood up to.
I understand that's not everybody's cup of tea.
How come I am told to ignore Stick? yet when people disagree with my post they are not told to ignore me?
I know Boomer thinks I am emotionally involved and probably believes I am lashing out because Stick was mean to me? I have said many times I joust with Stick for my entertainment and it is fun to expose hypocrisy....
I have never met Stick and most likely never will..... Stick has no clue who I am and what I am.... his criticism's of me seem like canned responses... WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD i TAKE THAT PERSONAL? his criticism is pretty much 180 deg off, I suspect that is because he doesn't care to read my post and that is fine.... at this point I hope he never does.
When I first found the campfire I read for about a year with very little posting by me. I almost dismissed this place initially because of Stick and his followers.... as an outsider looking in I could not believe what I was seeing.. the juvenile behavior of Stick and his followers..... the groupies and group think was something to behold.....
With the advantage today of hind sight I see many people felt the same way I do... and today Stick is pretty much loathed by the majority....
I am also curious how many have left because of Stick? or maybe never joined? hmmm food for thought.
As far as Fred , Jud and me being a little crude at times, this is because Stick sets the tone, the rules of the game so to speak.... very rarely does that tone carry over to threads that Stick isn't involved in.
Stick is the common denominator in these train wreck threads....
I understand two wrongs don't make a right... I also understand we are free to speak our minds.
Jud & Fred will be the first to congratulate someones trophy or compliment a nice build etc...
Has anyone ever seen Stick do that? EVER? hmmm , thus another question about moral equivalence..... where is it?
Boomer will be along to criticize this post and think I am all emotionally involved , and again he will be wrong..... another double standard.. Boomer can post about his wife his job etc.... go on and on regarding personal and emotional stuff..... posting like a chick and nobody says a word... and that's probably the best response honestly.
Anyone care to answer these questions I am all ears..... this genuinely confounds me.
I have little doubt that at some point in the future I will have angered enough here that posting and participating will no longer be fun and I will simply join the others who have left.....
And Stick will still be around working on his 100k post......