Adminnemooseus,
I have a humble request. I have slowly gathered the opinion that you are almost like the executioner of straying topics. I do appreciate the willingness of admins to be quick to kill threads that are plunged headlong into confusion. But I am somewhat nervous that you would even suggest that this topic be closed because it fills me with a dread that the axe will very soon drop.
So here I am prostrate before your authority (figuratively speaking of course) begging you to hold off the killing blow until at least I have had a chance to hear Dan C's response. Really I would like to keep this thread open so the ideas that Dan and I have been going back and forth on can be further discussed. But ultimately I understand that I am only a visitor here and respect the fact that you (and other Big Brothers...er, um, I mean Admins) have the right to make the final decision.
Russ
PS - While I take the subject matter of this post very seriously, I hope you have seen that my delivery has included several attempts at humor.
I have included the original post in its entirety so that an accurate conclusion can be reached.. I am a little bothered (and it may just be me) because I wonder if, in my finding humor in one of functions of admins, I have actually created strife. I want to say first, Adminnemooseus, that I was not intending to insult you or any other admin and apologize if I have communicated contrary to this. I am not trying to kiss up or anything, I just really do not feel good about disrespect and it bothers me no small amount that I may have inadvertently been disrespectful to admins. Perhaps I am wrong though...please let me know.
The issue is that I just didn't want
this thread to get closed because Dan had not yet responded. I agreee vehemently that it was straying. However, I think that was due to some statements that appeared to be within the realm of normative discussion but actually were intended to stir up an emotional word battle rather than a reasonable discussion. While I do not claim immunity to this disorder, I do not see any of that strife taking place in the posts between myself and Dan. However, you can't exactly have a thread in that forum be exclusive. So then, if my comments on that thread have attracted a negative type of argumentation by any persons, then I must whole-heartedly concur on the closure of the thread, even though it is against my true desire.
Regardless, I will stand by whatever decision the admins make.
Russ
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