Hey fellow Mods

Hi cajunbulldog, what you're referring to must have been before me. No matter, just glad to see you back! :)

Yep I have been here since 2006!Thanks1

Hey!! I was thinking about you the other day!!

Know what you mean-sometimes it looses focus here, but hopefully it is getting back on track.

I will be praying for you and your family and hope things get better--I am here--Pm me if you need to talk, vent, etc :lol: karen

I will pray for you and yor family too.
I was going to take a break myself because of all the backstabbing that was going on. I thought they were friends. I hope too see you back soon! You were one of the three originals that helped me in the beginning. Thanks!

Hey cajun! We really miss you - you're an asset to this forum, and I was very sad to see you missing in action for so long. But I certainly understand with everything that was going on here and things going on at home.

For those who don't know, there have been members that came and made trouble and then left, and caused a minor split in the board. A few (very few) members and a couple of mods left the board and haven't returned. They caused a lot of heartache, hurt feelings and anger between members with their actions before they left, and they attempted to take members with them both before and after they left. Through it all, the board has continued to grow, and our admin has, I'm sure, learned a lot from the experience on how to handle things like that in the future, and we are still here. We have an important mission here, and we need to stick together and not have a lot of dissent in our ranks.

I've said it before, and it bears repeating: any time you have so many people with their varied personalities and viewpoints gathered in one place at one time, there are going to be disagreements. It's how we handle those disagreements between members that defines us as a community.

Cajun, I really hope you'll come back when you can. You were a voice of reason during a very difficult time on our board and we could definitely use your help! :D

Cajun,
I am so glad that you came back! I thought maybe you were doing alot of OT on the rig--and we are always glad to see you!

Thanks everyone. I am ok healthwise,just some marriage issues to work out one way or another & my oldest has to have knee surgery.Too much football & power lifting. :cry:

Health is the most important thing.

Some time I know I am not as nice as I should be. I just want to reach through my monitor and shake people and crack their heads until they understand. But alas it isn't meant to be.

Hope to see you around a lot more.

FYI I am sure he is not referring to you! I want to crack some heads too at times, especially when I have to repeat the same things over and over.

FYI,I actually enjoy our writings back & forth. There is a very large difference between being blunt with the facts compared to just being rude. I have never noticed you giving me any trouble ever and wish you luck in your future.

See I told you FYI!

I heartily agree. Some time you have to sit back and take care of Number 1, you! that is why I have been less active than in the past. I still think this is a wonderful community, and people can find much help, guidance and friendship here. Unfortunately those in the collection industry are threatened by consumers learning their rights and responsibilities and making their pathetic job harder. AS a result their only recourse is to waste their time and ours by coming here and attacking people, and disrupting the community.

How can we stop or control it? I don't know. I would say ban them (some how, and virtually impossible to do any way)? But that would be bad, as there have been people from the industry who have come here (Jedi Mistress Ari and FYI come to mind) who have helped many people, and there may be other out there who can and will also help some day. Any ideas how we can stem the tide on this one?

Oh I didn't think you meant me! I'm sorry if you thought I did. I was speaking in general. I have enjoyed our conversations very much!

LCW, the only real effective way I know of would hurt our forum traffic. I belong to several consumer boards who require registration with email verification before you are allowed to post. This gives admin some good id details if someone needs to be kicked out.

We've tried blocking guests and making people register in order to post, but that hasn't always worked. And it cut our new members joining WAY down. Many people don't want to join, they just want advice.

Cajun, It is good to see you and I hope we see more of you as you can get on here. You were one of those that came to my resuce with a CA and I was scared to death. I too will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Family always comes first. :D

Hey Cajun, glad to see you're back. When Vikas posted a list of the inactive mods and you were on it, I was afraid you weren't coming back.

Eliminating guests would only solve part of the problem, I think. Because then the trolls would just use these "disposable" email addresses to register, and then they would still post garbage.

I think it will take more of a mod presence, for us to constantly be monitoring new posts and zap them right away before they cause problems.

I was gonna never come back but decided to give it another try since I got a lot of people I have come to like over here.

OR... I don't know how the system dictates what goes into the "Pending Guest Posts"... But maybe anything from a guest, or a new user with less than say 50 posts, will go into pending until approved by a mod.

Good point about pending posts. I noticed that anyone can approve them? It SHOULD just be restricted to mods. And if you see something that's obvious spam, we should be able to eliminate that as well.

Yeah, I've noticed too that anyone can approve a guest post, not just mods . . . .

Good to see you Cajun!!!! :D

Welcome back Cajun! :)

Welcome back Cajun and LCW. Its nice to see you back on the board. I understand that you became frustrated and had decided to leave. But I am happy that you????????ve decided to reconsider your decision.

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Cajun, good to see you. I hope everything turns out well for you. You are in my thoughts.

It's amazing how a message board can affect us! I can relate to what all of you are saying, I was hurt very badly by some people last year, and I am now extremely careful around here. I really enjoy all the mods, though, and I'm so glad we have this private forum!