Blackburn, my response above was not a personal attack. It's one thing to make known that an individual made a mistake on a forum and suffered the consequences. It's another to have "plenty of mocking" to add insult to injury - it goes way above and beyond, and serves only to belittle the transgressor. If you want to dredge things up, I'll simply refer you to a certain thread where you badmouthed another forum member and gloated over his getting called out on a sister forum, who *just happened* to be a business associate and friend of mine. That's a risk one takes when one contracts diarrhea of the mouth on an internet forum, you never know when it's going to bite you in the ass or you get called out on it. Back 40+ years ago when I was being raised, we called it "bad form", and even now, airing another's dirty laundry in public is never a good thing. My 20 years in the military has made me one hell of an ahole when I feel the need is warranted and I can be as spiteful, coy, and conniving as the next faceless internet username. But even somebody as uncultured and boorish as myself knows where the boundaries are. That's why you'll never see me ask why you were booted off of THR, or why you won't volunteer to post the contents of the final "you're outta here" PM from the mods there. It crosses the line, I have too much respect for your privacy and dignity, and my requesting does nothing to enhance the APS experience in the least bit. Likewise, publicly mocking others for thier indiscretions or mistakes on an internet forum is petty, immature, demeaning, rude, insensitive, tasteless, and just plain cruel. If it was my forum, I wouldn't tolerate such behavior. Who would want to visit and participate in a forum where that kind of talk is encouraged or tolerated? Oleg runs a class act over at THR. You want AR-15.com or DemocraticUnderground, THR ain't it.
Now, if you want to hang dirty laundry from the highest flagpole yourself, have at it. If you take delight in mocking others on a forum for nothing other than your sheer enjoyment, knock yourself out. I appreciate the insight into your character, and it reinforces my understanding of why you want a half-dozen sock puppets to infiltrate THR. But do it somewhere else, ok? I like what Oleg and crew have started with THR and APS. I don't want to see it devolve into a free-for-all flame and slamfest.
