Semi-OT - forum censorship

SNORT, Very funny.

Lara

That'd be me. I might have only posted to r.c.g; my newsreader likes to complain when I crosspost. In general, that's a good thing, but sometimes I hit the wrong key when I really did mean to crosspost and it just doesn't happen.

Yup, and you don't top post either, noticed that about your posts.

They are always at the top and rarely have any content, unless it is about beads, but that never seems to stop you from having something to say. Whether you know the topic or not. I also notice that there are great spans of time between your posts, sometimes you will not post for a month or more.

Suppose you could do that again?

ROTFLMAO!!!!!! One can only hope your advice is heeded..................

As I've mentioned, my default is top-posting in deference to the main group I post to, and I often forget to switch to bottom-posting when I switch groups.

I'm a beadmaker - is it surprising that I only post about bead-related topics? This is rec.crafts.glass, not rec.crafts.stained-glass, which you are welcome to go start if you feel the need. However, when I was a regular poster here a few years ago, stained glass people were in the minority here. I have fused for several years, and I have done stained glass but find it uninteresting, so I quit. I love to make beads, and have been making glass beads for thirteen years. Is that a problem for you?

You seem to be one of a few people here whose primary goal in this newsgroup is to keep anyone else from posting in it.

Well, at least you're good at *something*.

What "advice"? I only read smug stupidity tarnished with self-absorption. Likewise with your post.

Maybe you should be doing something productive like making suncatchers?

site anyway, for what you spent you could probably have your own!!

Um, she does. !!

rec.crafts.glass from your headings!!!!

Now who's whining? Wah, wah, a thread I don't rule by intimidation.

Javahut -- are you a sock puppet? (Like you'd admit it if you were....) You sure sound like one -- in fact, I went to the dictionary, looked it up, and it said "i.e., Javahut." My goodness!

How's that for brutish?

At least it's loving. >smoochie woochie<

something about the top-posting

On RCB, it's officially been okayed to top-post, and this thread is being cross-posted. So it's not necessarily bad etiquette to top-post in this thread, see? Just disliked by some, which I've never, personally, understood. What the heck is so dang horrible about top-posting? So you have to scroll down a little to see what's being referred to......even my husband, who has two paralyzed hands, can do that.

said "I think you should be more honest"? Maybe someone should.

Yes, of course. Lots of people have.

like the message so you wish to kill the >messenger? Your childish attempt at censorship is no different than what is being criticized in this thread.

Another moonraker sycophant! I didn't know there were any, wow!

ignore your

"contributions"?

Why is what Moonraker has to say unreasonable? Jesus Henry. And this from an academician. I've known you long enough to know exactly why you say that though. People and ideas are just a means to a personal end. Personally I'd rather make trinkets all day than sell my integrity for a few crappy bucks. Which is precisely the reason you'll never be succesful at anything but accumulating a resume that impresses the fools. Your book is a lazy collection of other people's ideas and your art is mere posturing. You should have been a Fuller Brush salesman.

What's the deal? Got an ax to grind? Just plain don't like the guy?

First time I have noticed you here, but more of a reason for me to stay away, this NG is getting like a damn chat room....

salesman.

Well, there's a history there, if that's what you mean. For Henry the message boards are all about making money. He is not alone in that, though he has been particularly shameless in milking it. I remember one time when he told one lady not to solicit funds for breast cancer among the glass community, and in the next breath plugged his 'EZtherm' $20,000 molybdenum furnaces. So it doesn't come as any surprise that he would defend this Moonraker dirtbag and the actions of wetcanvas in censoring private messages for commercial reasons. Disgusting, but not surprising. For myself, I view people who need to make money by manipulating those seeking information as true bottom feeders and I give them a wide berth. People who approach 'experts' needing information about glass are coming to you with their hat in their hand hoping you will behave with integrity. Whenever I see that trust abused it makes my skin crawl.

I first posted to rec.crafts.glass in 1994.

So there is indeed an axe to grind, and there is the explanation of it, but in that axe grinding how does the "Moonraker dirtbag" enter into it. You have a problem with Henry, who I only know by his posts here and having read his book. I know nothing of his furnaces, but did read his defense of Moon's post , which Mike Firth sought to have comment on, (be sure and buy a subscription to "glas bits" and consult the website to find out the time of day).

The name calling and "chatty" content of having something to say, regardless of its benefit to anyone, has gotten this group off on a tangent that is just sort of ridiculous.

I would like to know your name and what is the history? Why do you remain anonymous? Henry