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Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:00 pm
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Location: Cass Co. Il.
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| Anyone have any idea why Upland Journal is off line? I tried to log on and there is a rather cryptic message as to why it has been shut down. |
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:51 pm
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Location: Macomb, MI
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I can't tell you why it's shut down, but it appears some people have been misbehaving. I haven't been there in months. I stopped visiting because of the heavy handed moderator. He likes to play the Heavy Handed Sheriff role too much. He has his own definition of the first amendment.
In discussion boards, there will always be disagreements of some sort, but if handled properly, they work themselves out just fine. Even without the "Sheriff" sticking his nose into matters. IMHO, he ruins his own board. |
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:49 pm
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Location: Kansas High Plains
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| Guess I haven't kept up on the controversial stuff; I tend to avoid that crap. But I will say that the Upland Journal board is one of the more civil boards and one of the most reasonably moderated. If it's shut down due to shananigans I guarantee it's deserved. Too bad some folks don't know how to act. |
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:29 am
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| Have to agree with you fin . As opinionated as we all want to be , sometimes there is no middle ground . UJ is a great site and the moderator does an ecceptional job over there . Sometimes it's necessary . There have been times on this site whan the moderator had to step in and justifiably so . You can let bickering go on for only so long , it gets personal , and I get sick of it . Make your point , argue it , and let it go ! |
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:21 pm
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Still closed this aft.
I go there quite often. Haven't seen any out of control threads. ???????
Kinda hard to avoid something if you don't know what's wrong. Unless maybe the parties in question were emailed. Who knows but I think it's a bit wrong to shut the whole place down when/if a couple of people got out of control.
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:14 pm
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| According to my understanding is was another political pissing match. All the more reason to keep them off the sporting boards. It's back up now, I understand. |
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:41 pm
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I don't usually read those. Probably why I didn't see a thread out of control.  |
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:28 pm
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Location: North ID.
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| I looked earlier and it was offline at the time. I generally don't read the political stuff either! I can get enough of that in the mainline media! |
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