Retire Free For All Forum?

I vote keep FFA, but for members only. Maybe another place for visitors.But PLEASE, keep FFA. As a Biblical fundamentalistic creationist (though I believe earth probably old) I've now been becked into this corner by the establishment elite who insist on what I am to talk about, whom I am to respond to and when, and about everything else concerning what I say and how I say it. I've tried to explain that I run a full time mom and pop business at age 68 with a high school diploma and simply don't have a lot of time to respond to seven or eight hungry conterparts biting at my heels, each of them bombarding me with "answer my post now and in thus and thus a manner and btw, you're violating forum rules, etc, etc." With my limited education I use links to document and they holler about that. (link mining) They've obviously driven off eveyone who doesn't think like them which leaves anyone who strays into this pack runing a one person 12 or 13 page gauntlet against the pack. No thanks! So here I am in this corner and if it goes where's a feller to go??

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Buz, it hasn't sunk in yet has it? You understand that you have a limited education yet you think you have something significant to say on some complex topics. You simply can't expect to make any progress on these discussions until you understand that you do need to know somthing about the issues.

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It has sunk in loud and clear that the more I researched and used links from those who were educated, including those of evolutionists, to the advantage of my argument the louder the insults got and the more the warnings of forum violations.

Most of the links I used were very clear and spoke for themselves needing little interpretation. And when there was a possibility of multiple interpretation, a chorus of adversaries were there to render theirs as the correct one. I don't see how the rules obligate one to rspond to all of these claims, some of which just weren't worth my time.In the following exchange between Percy and myself, the link spoke loud and clear, but that didn't seem to make a whit of difference as to my performance, nor was there a retraction of any kind of the charges.quote:
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2. NS is impossible without RM. So the buck stops, so to speak with RM.
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Yet another meaningless, unsupported bare assertion, and another violation of the guidelines.
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The conventional wisdom suggests that random mutation precedes natural selection, i.e., random mutations that allowed giraffes to reach higher leaves than their competitors fixed in the population.
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Keep the free for all forum! It would also seem unfair to people like Syamsu who are restricted there.

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Having been once myself exiled to this haven, I would definitely have to agree. It's a city of refuge where one can go without being totally banished to participate in the forum some as well as to have a chance to communicate with both administration and members; a time for administration to evaluate the poster, and for the poster to try and work out those problems which may be the reason for being restricted. It also affords other members a place to make suggestions and possibly help to keep the peace for the good of all.I found that it takes some time for new members really get a handle on what administration expects, which forum rules are considered most important and to evaluate how evenhandedly moderation is administrated. Thankfully, administration does allow some dialogue here and a place to do it when problems arise, rather than as as I hear to be the case in some forums, to simply banish with little or no explanation or warning.

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Excuse me Mr. Moose,
But if you plan on closing topics down in the Free for All forum then you better change the "anything goes" "No hold Barrs" rule...don't you think?

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Otherwise you're nothing but a big baby and a censor.

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Wise

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I believe in calling a spade a spade

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So go ahead and throw me off.

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Wise (I assume the old Newsmax poster by that username), I'm formerly the old buzzboy, one of Newsmax's early and long time posters. My suggestion to you here is to understand that this is not the old Newsmax and is run much more efficiently and differently than was Newsmax. i don't know where you've been all the while, but you'll find that you will get along much better here if you go to the Proverbs and do a reading by the world's greasted ever Mr Wise, King Solomon. He'll advise you as to what real wisdom is. He'll instruct you on how to conduct yourself in situations like this, respecting those in authority, who go to great effort in providing for us all at no expense to us a great place like has been set up here where we are afforded the wonderful priviledge of communicating with citizens of all faiths, nations who have a broad scope of all kinds of knowledge, philosophies, experience and ideas for all to share. Moose is one of those in charge here with authority who is making suggestions, I say suggestions to us all as to how to make freeforall to work efficiently so as to not have the need to shut it down, but rather to fix it.
So I've said the above to you to say this: Live up to your username or change it. Be wise and be at least respectful to Moose and others here in authority and who are sincerely working hard to make it the fine place it has become for us all to enjoy. Ok bud? And remember another saying of Wise Old King Solomon. "Better is the wound of a friend than the kiss of an enemy."Your friend, buz

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My Dear Friend Buzz,

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That is fine and as you have noticed I have not posted anywhere else on this forum out of respect to the Admin. They excersize a great deal of control over the other forums.
But this IS a FFA forum that states:

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"Anything goes, no holds barred, flame on"

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I am well within the confined rules, so to speak. Now if Mr. Moose wishes to change the FFA HEADING to something different then that is fine and I will succomb. But until then, I am within the guidelines.

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Now if the Admin wishes to say:

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"Most things go, some hold barred, little flaming"

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Then THAT is a different story.

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FFA means just that, free for all.

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Wise

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Ok, wise guy, but, again, as you proceed, better reconsider my suggestion to read up on all time world wisdom champ, King Solomon, who states over and over that truly wise men will love reproof, instruction and counsel. Go ahead and as a plebe freshment, march into town here and antagonize about everybody in town by anouncing loudly how this place should be run so as to suit you. Is this how you conduct yourself as a Christian when you are a guest in someone's nice home where they feed you and put you up for the night?Alexander the Great, as I've heard tell, once had a soldier who showed cowardice in battle by the name of Alexander. The soldier was called up before Alexander, who sternly insisted that he either change his ways or change his name. Get the point, Wise, me friend?We all hope you'll wiseup, settle down and enjoy the forum. There's plenty of opportunity allowed here for constructive criticism. Administration seems sincere in continually looking for ways to improve the operation by hearing respectful input from all sectors. Btw, be forwarned..........if that means, in their view, showing disrespectful guests the door, that they will do!