Well I survived!!

[lobs211]

Ha ha made it back from the jungle without being kidnapped!

I wanna lie and say how great it was but it wasnt 😞 

So I will just say the good bits!

Met some lovely people, strong women doin it so hard

Went to 2 orphanages OMG Gorgeous kids, wanted to bring em all back!

Saw some beautiful country and ate weird but (some) nice food

Had a crack at BBQ grasshoppers LOL

Great weather and did some good shopping for the kids - had to leave my Aussie clothes & shoes there, couldnt fit it all in, ha ha

Burma was scary, I didnt like it

Laos was good, very interesting

Thailand (Chiang Mai) up North I loved, VERY different from Phuket

All in all was interesting and Im glad I went but I wont ever do it again 🙂

[freddie*rooster]

Sorry Donna I can't help with advice or help but

I can say Gooooooooooo Rooster's 

[peteepie]

Don't worry about Jocashlow he gets a bit angry after midnight.

[johcaschro]

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

Sadly there were times when reports needed to be done i'm

thinking particularly of a poster who was very nasty and wished

death and cancer on a number of posters - I can put my hand up

as being one who did report those posts and I don't feel bad about

that fact.

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Sadly, I must disagree with you. There are no posts here which need to be reported.

Are we children that we must go running to teacher to dob in someone who has posted something which offends our delicate sensibilities?

The way I see it is that we are all adults here and should respond in an adult fashion to posts which we perceive to be challenging by use of reasoned arguments. We should feel free to express outright disagreement as well.

We should feel free to accept that not everyone thinks the way we ouselves do but that they have the right to express that opinion anyway without fear of being dobbed in to the moderators if we take (shock-horror) Offense.

This board has become a sort of bland Stepfordville where Stepford-type posters discuss Stepford-type issues, expecting Stepford-type responses. Where has all the frisson of vigorous debate gone?

Where are all the interesting posters? Where is there any intellectual challenge? Where is all the Fun?

I used to look forward to Thursday and Friday evenings especially, but no more . . . all gone now.

The way I see it is if someone wants to post something which is perceived to be offensive then let it stand in order to highlight and demonstrate their character, for good or for ill.

If ebay wants to moderate their own boards then they will but why should any one of us work to do their job for them?

Dobbing is such an un-Australian activitiy (or at least it used to be so)

[kopenhagen5]

I hope you are aware that Lithium (moderators) do remove members and moderate posts continually without requiring reporting.

The mass removal that occurred several years ago was Lithium's own instigation in conjunction with the new board designs and had little to do with any reporting.

It was I believe based on the number of prior sanctions members had.

[johcaschro]

Yes, Lithium. an aptly named entity. In the world of medicine Lithium is known as a powerful anti-psychotic drug used in treating bi-polar affective disorder and moderating affect so as to remove the peaks and the troughs of mood extremes. The ultimate Stepford medication, as it were.

[johcaschro]

I do believe you are wrong about the removal of posters being nothing to do with the reporting-fest which went on here years ago. I was here and I have a good memory.

[lyndal1838]

I was here then too.....there is no way anyone would know if posts were reported or were removed purely by the Moderators own actions.

There is nothing offensive here now because the posts were removed at the time.

[johcaschro]

ok

[joz*garage]

Dobbing is such an un-Australian activitiy (or at least it used to be so)

theyre probably not australian  i agree with what you said, i used to enjoy reading those unusual posters who didn't care, lol, not araid to say it like it is [sort of thing] were highly entertaining imo, sadly those who thought they owned the place would get offended

but

i do think Lithium took it upon themselves to rid malicious reporters which can't be a bad thing

which doesn't account for the demise of the place, i know 

[freddie*rooster]

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@johcaschro wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

Sadly there were times when reports needed to be done i'm

thinking particularly of a poster who was very nasty and wished

death and cancer on a number of posters - I can put my hand up

as being one who did report those posts and I don't feel bad about

that fact.

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Sadly, I must disagree with you. There are no posts here which need to be reported.

Are we children that we must go running to teacher to dob in someone who has posted something which offends our delicate sensibilities?

The way I see it is that we are all adults here and should respond in an adult fashion to posts which we perceive to be challenging by use of reasoned arguments. We should feel free to express outright disagreement as well.

We should feel free to accept that not everyone thinks the way we ouselves do but that they have the right to express that opinion anyway without fear of being dobbed in to the moderators if we take (shock-horror) Offense.

This board has become a sort of bland Stepfordville where Stepford-type posters discuss Stepford-type issues, expecting Stepford-type responses. Where has all the frisson of vigorous debate gone?

Where are all the interesting posters? Where is there any intellectual challenge? Where is all the Fun?

I used to look forward to Thursday and Friday evenings especially, but no more . . . all gone now.

The way I see it is if someone wants to post something which is perceived to be offensive then let it stand in order to highlight and demonstrate their character, for good or for ill.

If ebay wants to moderate their own boards then they will but why should any one of us work to do their job for them?

Dobbing is such an un-Australian activitiy (or at least it used to be so)

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You may feel differently if you were the receiver of the degrading

painful ridicule and derogative messages from a poster who had been 

continually banned but managed to bypass the registration protocol to

return and continue with the same abuse time after time - Using information

gained from genuine posts supporting both my partner and myself as we

progressed through our cancer treatment. If you believe this type of person

should have been permitted to be part of this community I am shocked. I

can assure you a poster with such a flawed personality such as this was 

certainly not providing any intellectual challenge or fun to the community

and that is why that person is no longer able to participate here and I can

guarantee most posters were pleased to see the end of that poster. I may

add there are a lot of posters who are missed from here due to unreasonable

reporting - my previous post was directed at just the one pest and no way

was it directed at any other missing posters.