wheatpenny opened this issue on Mar 21, 2005 ยท 425 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 22 March 2005 at 11:14 AM
Huh?
Is it over?
Yes, if the great "Defenders of Freedom" had simply let the matter drop, then we wouldn't have arrived at this location.
I don't blame the PTB for their reaction. Most businesses would react in the same manner.
The goal is: peace and quiet. Even if achieving the peace & quiet requires upsetting a few people for a while.
The shouting will die down eventually. And then members will gradually come to accept the new TOS as being the status quo. It's happened before. Sure, a few people went away and never came back.....but lots more came in to take their places.
And some of them no doubt came back under different handles ;-).
This, too.....shall pass away.
As someone said many posts ago in this thread: the PTB are merely seeking to put a cork in it.
Disallow it all, and then the members can't squabble over the vaugeness of the rules (the 6" rule vs. the 3" rule). Now, instead -- they can scream about the unfairness of a total ban.....for a brief while.
And then -- most people will move on to other subjects. Like P6. And those individuals that are truly interested in certain art forms will move on to other sites -- sites more conducive to their particular style.
Case closed. No muss.....and only a temporary fuss.
It's impossible to please everybody. So......just remove the bone of contention from the throat.
From a purely practical standpoint, that's good thinking.