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Sandy Claws

By Sandy Claws,
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Help me get this right. The 'Elders' forum was created to give the folks with a significant post count a place to go where they can avoid the chest thumping BS by newbs and troll invasions. Mods and admins don't do anything to stop it, don't like it themselves, so create a new area where they and a select few can go to not have to deal with it? AND they seem to have decided to lock it to prevent lurkers from even reading. Congrats on trying to copy the Falcons' "Pure Football". I'm headed to google to find a new home for lurking.

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Help me get this right. The 'Elders' forum was created to give the folks with a significant post count a place to go where they can avoid the chest thumping BS by newbs and troll invasions. Mods and admins don't do anything to stop it, don't like it themselves, so create a new area where they and a select few can go to not have to deal with it? AND they seem to have decided to lock it to prevent lurkers from even reading. Congrats on trying to copy the Falcons' "Pure Football". I'm headed to google to find a new home for lurking.

If it makes you feel any better, I can't view it either despite having the post count.

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Actually, it started on a whim, developed into a joke, and now exists purely to annoy people as I receive nasty PMs from everyone.

Thank you for your participation in this social experiment.

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Actually, it started on a whim, developed into a joke, and now exists purely to annoy people as I receive nasty PMs from everyone.

Thank you for your participation in this social experiment.

Reminds me of the 70s, a decade of failed social experiments. Except they could blame it on the drugs.........

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lol who cares, did u actually read the threads when it was open to us to read? there was nothing even there worth complaining about.

Werd. Sausage fest. Who gives ashit.

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That was a great Elder/Huddle event we had this past weekend. I miss the ole Huddle Events and was glad to drink beer with the old timers (Skew) and meet some of the kittens in person. Glad to see posting this much has finally paid off. :)

See you all in August for the next one.

Casey

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I wouldn't feel too bad. It's for people with over 5000 posts, and some of them have been registered for maybe a year. It's more of a place where people that LOVE to argue with no real end game in sight can get together and not argue :P

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Help me get this right. The 'Elders' forum was created to give the folks with a significant post count a place to go where they can avoid the chest thumping BS by newbs and troll invasions. Mods and admins don't do anything to stop it, don't like it themselves, so create a new area where they and a select few can go to not have to deal with it? AND they seem to have decided to lock it to prevent lurkers from even reading. Congrats on trying to copy the Falcons' "Pure Football". I'm headed to google to find a new home for lurking.

You're welcome, now run along...

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