@engineer,
engineer wrote:
RexRed wrote: I have the right to make demands and I also have to right to take my words elsewhere. It's called a free world. Maybe you need to take hard look at yourself... This forum is a service not only of the person who owns it and but even more so to the people who donate their words to make it something worthwhile to read. WHO PAYS ME?
- You have the PRIVILEGE of making demands. If you think making demands is a right, you live in a different world than me. RG could terminate your membership here in a blink of an eye without you having any recourse. Likewise if you make demands on your boss, that boss could terminate you. That you have the privilege of making demands that people actually listen to is something you should value.
- It is not a free world. Every service you use is paid for by someone, often you. Every right you enjoy was won by someone, is protected by someone else and is likely denied to people somewhere in the world.
- Your pay for your contributions to this site is the enjoyment you take from using it. If that pay is insufficient you can take your payment elsewhere and no one can stop you. That you are still here shows that you find value here. It is disingenuous to claim that the owner of the site reaps all the value of your labor and you receive nothing in return when you've been posting for years.
Land of the free home of the brave I don't know what world you live in. And internet chats are regulated by the FCC and not able to just do as they please either.
And when bosses terminate good workers they get a reputation of being jerks and assholes. Then no one wants to work for them except, err, the dogs. Business suffers and eventually the doors close.
The doors close due to poor hiring and firing policies and overall bad service. I would have left this forum a long time ago if i didn't care at all.
Yet I have stayed not only to exact change to make the service better here but also primarily to make it a better place for the average person who wants to get their point across without all the noise and confusion meant only to discredit, distract and disharmonize the collective unity of the people.
Freedom is enforced in this country by laws that even private business owners have to adhere to and respect. Just because someone OWNS the business does not mean they can walk all over people.
Business are shut down every day due to owners who think people don't have basic rights and protections under the law.
I am not out just to change A2K but all internet forum discussions that are being spammed by unscrupulous posters.
Should my profile feature hardcore porn clips and hate attacks just because the owner of the forum thinks everyone needs to be barraged by it every day?
A2k is only one of these forums and all discussion should be moderated by not only the owner but if the owner has lower standards the person whose name is on the profile should be able to further moderate the discussion so it meets the standard with which their name is associated.
I don't want my name associated with all the crap that has been posted in my "discussions"...
Much of the crap admittedly I posted myself. I should be able to change my mind.
