A LANDFILL

Look I know it's easy to call Wheat out on pitching a good idea in about as unpalatable a manner as humanely possible, but can you folks who don't like what he's saying disagree with the following?

-Eagle Time is basically an extended group of friends. We don't get new people very often and usually they know at least one person here from prior internet circles.
-Friends do not need to pin their local jurisdiction's bylaws on the door for everyone's perusal.
-If you (the individual reader) of this list think there is another individual on this forum who needs to be escorted off the premises and that decision would make things empirically better for every single person left on the forum, that's something you need to talk through with them. I'm an obnoxiously trepidatious mod, but I know an irredeemable shitheel when I see one.

This subforum chiefly exists because Wheat strongarmed me into it. I'm defending it because honestly, I don't like being in charge, really, at all, beyond the capacity it gives me to do things for people. I personally would like a place where I'm freer to express my opinion without constantly worrying I'm punching down if I express an opinion that isn't positive or neutral. You could misinterpret that as "I want to harass everyone and be freed from my shackles of modminly responsibility", but you won't because you know me and (hopefully) like and trust me as a person. I guess it's kind of a trust exercise, but you do have to remember that rules that make sense on a forum of anonymongers might be conspicuously redundant on a friendcircle like Eagle Time*. IRC also has rules that never get enforced because we talk things out when disagreements happen.


*This is just my estimation of the social dynamics going on here. I know some of you folks butt heads with each other. I butt heads with people. If there were really any truly odious people though I think we would've figured it out as a community? Maybe?