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[suzyQ3]

Someone mentioned that they didn't think too many have been banned recently. Maybe, but you probably wouldn't get an alert from a banned poster. :-)

These days, most often you get a time-out during which you cannot access this board.

 I have learned what I can post and what I can't. I err on the conservative side because I very much enjoy posting here.

One hint: Often you can tell by the subject line if it's a potential trigger for you. When I see thread that hits me that way, I move on. I don't even read it because I don't trust myself to keep my big fat mouth shut.

May I say that it's not that bad sitting on your hands. It keeps you warm.

[Nancy Drew]

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@Teddie wrote:

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@Shanus wrote:

....or negatively discuss a host.

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And yet there is a whole thread that was started out positively about Kristine Zell and went negative after that. It made me sad to see how that continued on. I wonder why other threads about hosts are deleted but this has remained. 

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Exactly what I was talking about when I said consistently is not always in play. 

[Teddie]

@Nancy Drew  There is/are a LOT of inconsistencies. 

[Teddie]

I’ve seen posts deleted because it was deemed “unkind,” or “controversial.”  I felt sometimes there was just a healthy debate going on, which is often enjoyable to see two different sides. But then I’ve seen threads where several posters are just piling on someone. It’s been awful sometimes. And I kept waiting for a moderator to come along and take care of it. But they stood. Why? 

[zumka]

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@Teddie wrote:

I’ve seen posts deleted because it was deemed “unkind,” or “controversial.”  I felt sometimes there was just a healthy debate going on, which is often enjoyable to see two different sides. But then I’ve seen threads where several posters are just piling on someone. It’s been awful sometimes. And I kept waiting for a moderator to come along and take care of it. But they stood. Why? 

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I wonder too.  The moderators become complicit in my opinion.  In fact they might as well have written some of that snark themselves for allowing it to remain.  @Teddie

[Free2be]

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

Someone mentioned that they didn't think too many have been banned recently. Maybe, but you probably wouldn't get an alert from a banned poster. :-)

These days, most often you get a time-out during which you cannot access this board.

 I have learned what I can post and what I can't. I err on the conservative side because I very much enjoy posting here.

One hint: Often you can tell by the subject line if it's a potential trigger for you. When I see thread that hits me that way, I move on. I don't even read it because I don't trust myself to keep my big fat mouth shut.

May I say that it's not that bad sitting on your hands. It keeps you warm.

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You make me smile.  I don't know your exact age but I'm wondering if you happened to read Mary Pipher's opinion article in a recent NY Times re women in their 70s. "Many of us have learned that happiness is a skill and a choice. We don’t need to look at our horoscopes to know how our day will go. We know how to create a good day."  Well, that's a mark of anyone with learned maturity.  Your post brought her words back to my mind.  What we choose to indulge in here can sometimes make or break a mood.  And so true about the "big fat mouth" (mine). 

[Spurt]

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@SharkE wrote:

used to be a place online called home shopping queen something like that

where you could have real conversations and anything goes. When I searched for it it was all outdated threads from yrs ago .

No subject was off limits, etc.

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@SharkE

There was another site, Television Without Pity (TWOP) It covered all shows on TV, QVC had quite a following....it was much like here but much more lax regarding host comments.  I lurked sometimes but never posted.  Iaughed out loud when Antonella mentioned on air that she reads TWOP and sees what people were saying.  (Antonella seemed to receive positive comments, but other hosts didnt fair as well).  Sadly TWOP bit the dust in 2014, it tried to make a comeup in 2016 but didn't succeed ......

There's another current one, Previously TV, one sub Forum for QVC as a channel to comment on just the channel,  set design, products for sale, product demonstrations, etc.  Nothing about the hosts programming

And a separate one strictly for host/models/vendors/product  comments called--

• Shopping Channel Hosts: Sales Prevention Team

But this site is not for the faint of heart---its lewd, rude, nasty and crude...Just not my style.  But one rather odd thing, their rules specifically state--- no comments are allowed at all about LR ...there must be an interesting story about that.....

[sunshine45]

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@Free2be wrote:

I took the OP's post as a stab at humor, not a need for a teaching moment. 

Most of us get caught up in a topic at one time or another that causes the mods to say "enough".  We are human.  Some are more prefect than others.  None of it is serious stuff.

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@Free2be

does this really seem like a humorous thread at all?

if that is how the OP intended it then it sure doesnt seem funny.

[FrostyBabe1]

Dare to say that you're not a fan of the British royal family, or have no interest in them. That'll get things going in a downward spiral!