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Geez Skip, I've never had any dealings with you nor do I know anything about you but I never will, based on your behavior on these forums. Lighten up....

I'll be leaving the forums now, maybe for good. Have fun...

Do I really need to say anything about this yet again?

Ken, this person is a paying customer. Skip is driving your paying customers away. He has driven away a large number of people from the previous forums. I know that a number of them did not buy the new version of DVDProfiler because of the way Skip treated them in the forums. There has been at least one other instance of a paying customer being driven away in these forums.

Skip is losing you customers. Do something about this now.

I hear a lot of hot air about 'spamming' and such instead of debating an issue.  Most of you people have no idea how to debate.  You don't deal in facts, you deal in emotions, in personal agendas.  When you debate something, each side presents a logical, fact-based argument to persuade the opposition.  That ain't happenin' here, folks.

Most of what I see that you all call debate is nothing more than personal opinions wrapped around whatever your agenda might be.  You don't step outside the box and look at what is appropriate for the online database without regard to your own wants or desires.  And then you add insult to injury by telling those of us who try to do so that we don't know what we're talking about, or you use the rules as a weapon to squelch any opposition to your opinions.

Now, we have forum blocking, and percentage of posts counting.  How wonderful!  Some of the worst offenders have blocked certain users, and constantly crow about how much 'quieter' things are.  Of course they're quieter, you've blocked out a big chunk of the discussion.  What did you expect to happen when you stick your fingers in your ears?

You're like a bunch of little children sticking up their hands like a stop sign - which means "talk to the hand" - because they don't want to hear anything that might be inconvenient or at odds with their preconceived notions of how things ought to be.

You disappoint me.

Skip's devoted soldier is firing in all directions

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Quoting surfeur51:

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Skip's devoted soldier is firing in all directions

Well, I see the Forum Post Gestapo is alive and well.

And just exactly what was it you were just saying about carrying on an intelligent debate? 

Rifter, you should really try to make your point in online forums without invoking Godwin's law. It somehow undermines your attempts at coming across as someone able to partake in a serious debate....

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Rifter, you should really try to make your point in online forums without invoking Godwin's law. It somehow undermines your attempts at coming across as someone able to partake in a serious debate....

I get what you're saying, but if that's the way he's acting then there's nothing wrong with saying so.

It has always struck me as ludicrous that just because some people overuse something that nobody is allowed to do so even if its appropriate based on behavior.

Should we refer to the Vichy?

Skip

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Quoting Darxon:

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Rifter, you should really try to make your point in online forums without invoking Godwin's law. It somehow undermines your attempts at coming across as someone able to partake in a serious debate....

I get what you're saying, but if that's the way he's acting then there's nothing wrong with saying so.

It has always struck me as ludicrous that just because some people overuse something that nobody is allowed to do so even if its appropriate based on behavior.

I'm sure some of your peers will remember you explicitly allowing associations of users with some of the most atrocious examples of human behavior based on something as simple as a snide remark. Let's just wait and see when someone starts comparing YOUR behavior to that of KKK members....

I'm fairly sure that everyone who had to suffer from the Gestapo in Europe will wholeheartedly disagree that the behavior of ANY member on this forum board even remotely resembles that of the Gestapo or the regime it worked for.

A comment like this and the attempt to justify it coming from someone who actually takes offence at someone posting a videoclip obvioulsy intended (the clip, that is) to be humorous is a farce, nothing else. If you are actually as sensitive and concerned about others' feelings as you wanted to make believe in that other thread, you would under no circumstances have made such a hideous connection and taken it even further by trying to justify it.

IMO, you should be ashamed, if not for the initial use of the comparison, than at least for your outragous try to justify it. If you had experienced the terror inflicted by the Gestapo first hand, you wouldn't even think about mentioning it in the context of a forum post. Maybe you should take a few steps back and reevaluate the area you're writing in here. It's a DVD forum and not the global battle ground of politics. An area btw in which the statement is equally improper, but that's something you probably won't understand anyway, since you probably only know about it from books, movies and stories others told, probably heavily affected from the same political camp you're so proudly engaged in.

While I don't see myself on the left side of the political spectrum either, I claim for myself a knowledge about decency regarding certain aspects of history that you obviously lack. If you're so eloquent as you always claim, it shouldn't be so hard to get your point across without referring to such comparisons. Has nothing to do with not being allowed to use it, as you're not using the Gestapo, neither is anyone on this forum. But you are putting others you don't know personally in a place they don't belong, which is about as insulting as you can get on these fields.