I think we have all left for a while for one period or another. Hey, it is a Internet forum for crying out loud. Life does go on off these boards...So what is wrong with dropping out for a while, for many they just grew up and got a job and a life after school. or others then finally just got a real life-

I just looked and found out that I have been here over ten years! With all this talk about things were better back then, I say maybe, then again maybe not. It was new back then, and so was all this computer and Internet stuff....We have always had people who stood out and got more their fair share of attention. Some people always think things were better in the past, just like our parents and grand parents.

One thing is for sure, don't let others keep you from posting if and when you like. Like they say opinions are like ass holes, everyone has one. Just take a deep breath and pass the ones you don't like. Let us leave the drama at home where your mama can wipe the tears away if some nasty poster hurts your feelings. (not towards you Migon)

I agree if you don't like a member or there opinions/views then its best to ignore the member, but it must be harder to moderate..

Like most of you, I hope it´s a joke too. If it´s not, I wonder what the OC section will become without SC. There is where I usually post. I prefer to stick to topics I find interesting, where I feel I can contribute or/and enhance and stimulate my own knowledge. My lack of insight in American politics and American life in general prevents me from taking a bigger part in the General Discussion section but I must say that I do enjoy very much reading the various topics discussed, the ones respectfully debated anyway (and most of them are), even there.

Don´t give up on the OC section. Even if it has turned out to be more of a sandbox lately. Altough it doesn´t bother me at all being called a bookworm fa***t and whatever (it can never bother me because no one knows me personally on here) I am sick and tired of the constant fighting and bullying of some posters by others who think they are so tough sitting behind a computer belittling posters. Aren´t we all adults on here? I really understand and respect SC´s reaction. But I also feel we need him around here, more than ever.

I thought Turnbull was a mod for the OC section, maybe it's time for him to have a wise word with the culprits.

I seriously hope that this is indeed an April Fool's joke. If not, we lost a good man today with a ton of class. Hope you take some time to recharge your batteries and return soon, SC.

Mark maybe he went East?

Hey SC, whaddaya think you're the Pope? you can't just resign? oh, no buddy this IS a position for life. Now, unless you want to sleep with the fishes, get your ass back here on Tuesday. APRIL FOOLS! Good one. Besides you are one of three people who truly know my sexual identity......even if you are a dumb Red Sox fan.

Red Sox fan!!! What?? Haha that's more absurd than me being a Yankees fan in Massachusetts. But in all seriousness I hope this is an April fools joke. I can't really decide what it might be

I didn`t know you have an "April fool"...

I am not writing as much as I used to do in the past, but I know SC enough to be aware how important is the guy here.

SC, I know we haven`t talk each other for so long. I know you have a choice, you are about to leave, so what? I don´t think it`s an healthful option. SC, doesn´t belong to you only. SC belongs to EVERYBODY here. If there are people around behaving wrongly, you should ignore them as TIS says. Don´t go. You are an essencial part of GangsterBB. Personally, I don´t regard a GangsterBB forum without a SC. Come on! What are you talking about. Next time you write here, maybe to say thanks and goodbye, I want to read you changed your mind and gonna stay here. I don´t expect you to write antother thing than staying here. Please reconsider you decision. I am not going to say goodbye because I know you are gonna be here. I don´t expect you to say another thing I and the rest don´t want to read.

Everyone made some great points, and when I get to the bottom of it, I'll be making some more points of my own. But until then, let's just wait and see. But in the mean time:

FS is right, people come and go and come back or not. Hell, that's almost what I've been doing lately myself. Some things are less exciting than they were when we started. Old timers come back more to see their friends than to participate in b.s. conversations. Or both.

If I left too much of the burden on SC then it's entirely my fault, and I will do whatever it takes -- even if that means screening every post on the OC forum before it's posted, or, making people earn the right to post there, or, even taking it down completely for a while. Whatever it takes. Because the BB isn't going down because of a group of assholes who show no respect for anyone or anything. If you happen to be one of those assholes reading this, then please do yourself and the rest of us a favor, and get the hell out.

Geoff, you're so sexy when you're forceful.

The Mighty Quinn!

Yea Geoff!!! You do have a way with words. Tell it like it is.




TIS

Edit: Unfortunately it's NOT only the OC thread. Let's put it this way Geoff......you'll be busy reading. LOL

I was going to post the exact same thing, but you beat me by 1 minute.

Great minds????


TIS

I usually stay away from talking in controversial topics, or at least just say one point and that's it. But, yea as a mod you have to you read every bullshit and I bet it does get very annoying.

Anyways though, after some time hope you do come back SC. At least a bright side is the red sox beat the yankees.

Ya think??

Let this teach some of you a lesson... as admin, I can do whatever I want; so you're lucky to have had SC mediating....you please him, you please me. You piss him off, you piss me off, TWICE! So you better pray he comes back or there WILL be HELL to pay; trust me on that!

JG, Does the UBB software allow you to disable "new users" from starting new threads until they reach a certain post count? While it won't solve every problem, it will eliminate a lot of the useless threads that seem to keep getting started. I had something similar on my old BBS software, and it helped.

KICK ASS GEOFF!!!

It's all being considered..... so some might wanna watch out, or disappear quietly... their choice!

Hope this is either an April Fool joke, or just a "time out" for SC who is a mainstay here.

This section of the BB has "been slippin" for some time, but as Sen Geary said, we should nott let a few rotten apples spoil the whole barrel.

Let's set up a meeting to sorten things out. We send Turnbull to him as the family's oldest friend to make sure that, even though he thinks he's out, we pull him back in.

Sonny, I'm not so sure about this SC fella. I want to see what's under his fingernails. I want you to go to Geoff, tell him you're not too happy with the boards yourself and that you'd like to statrt a new board with SC.

If he can offer me a glass of Scotch pre-war so I can refuse it I'm good to go.

Sorry, SC cannot come back!

With all this begging and pleading for his return and his birthday thread...his head has gotten so big that he can no longer fit into the boards.

SC,

Sorry the only one I can think of. Glad you are back.

Maybe next year we should forget the April Fools jokes. Seems like some of them don't go over as well a people think they would:



Florida DJs May Face Felony for April Fools' Water Joke Worse Than Rubio's

Florida country radio morning-show hosts Val St. John and Scott Fish are currently serving indefinite suspensions and possibly worse over a successful April Fools' Day prank. They told their listeners that "dihydrogen monoxide" was coming out of the taps throughout the Fort Myers area. Dihydrogen monoxide is water.

The popular deejays are mainly in all this trouble (potentially of a felony level) because their listeners panicked so much — about the molecular makeup of their drinking water, however unwittingly — that Lee County utility officials had to issue a county-wide statement calming the fears of chemistry challenged Floridians.

Audio evidence of exactly how St. John and Fish executed this bad joke remains scarce, as they were pulled off the air around 8:30 a.m. — about three and half hours into their Val and Scott in the Morning show on WWGR/Gator Country 101.9 FM, which airs across a big region of Southwest Florida. That was enough time for listeners to begin calling the water company.


"They were joking that 'dihydrogen monoxide' was coming out of Lee County residents' taps," reports Florida's WPTV, though it also remains unclear just how much the two hosts stoked the joke, and whether they actually told people to stop drinking the "dihydrogen monoxide" coming out of their taps. The WWGR station's manager did have to issue a retraction — or at least a constant on-air admission that the gag was, in fact, a joke — even though St. John and Fish were technically correct that dihydrogen monoxide was, indeed, coming out of their taps.

"Every break we have we're telling listeners it was a goof, a bad joke," Tony Renda, general manager at WWGR radio told WTSP-TV. And apparently, the station, the water works, and perhaps the authorities are still trying to figure out if the two hosts could face felony charges for, again, reporting that the scientific name of water was coming out of the pipes. "My understanding is it is a felony to call in a false water quality issue," Diane Holm, a public information officer for Lee County, told WTSP, while Renda stood firm about his deejays: "They will have to deal with the circumstances."

St. John and Fish are currently off the air, and maybe someone should tell their Senator, Marco Rubio — he of the unending water joke — or conservative lawmakers across the land: Our CPAC correspondent Elspeth Reeve tells us that the whole water-is-a-chemical-called-"dihydrogen oxide" bit was a really hit at the annual conference's panel entitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas."

Update 4:36 p.m. Eastern: We noticed that the station seems to be enjoying this controversy, despite the very real concerns expressed to the Lee County utility. There's a poll on the Gator Country website asking when the two DJs should return to air, with (at the time we viewed the results) 78 percent of those voting "never."

This is a real shame if its true. Would not blame SC for a second though. Even in my very short time posting here (a year) there have been a whole new wave of guys just trying to cause trouble. And a handful of guys who've been here a bit longer who should really know better and who've taken advantage of SC's good nature.

If SC really does have to leave, and lets all hope he doesn't, let's just hope people learn their lesson. Either way I'm looking forward to Geoff kicking ass and taking names in response.

If it was a April Fool by SC it was a brilliant and very pointed one that has drawn attention to an increasingly sucky situation!

It was a joke Johnny, SC has posted since.

Oh, that's a little embarrassing! Oh well, my point still stands though.....I think!!!