glenmar
Posted : 3/5/2006 8:10:42 AM
Since I have been dragged into this after TRYING to stay out of it, and since my private inbox is overflowing with venomous email......
First, I'm not sure that Jaime emailing me and telling me to step back from something is an official warning. And yep, there have been several times that Jaime has emailed me and asked me to leave a thread alone. Not ONCE have I replied with arguing or vulgarity. I've maybe whined a bit that the whole situation just isn't FAIR, but I've done as she asked without giving her sh*t. But, ok, if I've been WARNED, I've been warned, and I've taken it to heart that I needed to stop letting my butt overload my brain. So why am I an issue here? I've never been suspended most likely because if Jaime says I'm getting out of line, I LISTEN. She is the moderator and if she doesn't want me saying something, I'll behave because I DO value idog and I don't want to be booted for misbehavior. And I don't run around telling everyone who will listen what a worthless moderator Jaime is or what buttholes dog.com are.
Yes, I have considered Brenda a friend for the last couple years since she came to idog. That said, I've gotten similar emails to what Joel is describing when I posted something that she didn't agree with, or didn't like, or when I told her she was being a horses hind end. As recently as Thursday morning I tried to get Brenda to leave Ernies Joel alone and got venom in my inbox as thanks. There have been a number of nasty lies spread about me, and also about my fosters. I know who's spreading those lies and honestly, I could care less. Those that matter know better, and those who don't, well, they don't matter anyway.
I have been PUSHED and pushed and pushed to make a public statement in Brenda's support. OK folks, here it is.
I'm very sorry that Brenda was banned. She could be a valuable addition to this board. But she could also be a protagonist and stir the pot rather unpleasantly. I have SEEN the emails that flowed between Jaime and Brenda and between Jaime and Joel because BRENDA sent me everyone of them. And honestly? I would have banned her for that kind of crap a LONG time ago. I guess in a way this IS my fault, because I've put up with the nasty emails and just ignored her until she calmed down for a LONG time, so perhaps by my doing that, she came to think that it was ok to treat people like something she needed to scrape off the bottom of her shoe. If that's the case, my apologies not only to Brenda, but to Joel and Jaime as well. And if anyone doubts that I'm telling the truth about these emails, I'll be happy to share some of them....I have an entire folder devoted to these.
Now, should any of YOU choose to send me venomous email, go right ahead, but do so with the full knowledge that I'm not reading ANYTHING. I have done absolutely everything I could to keep Brenda on this board, but I couldn't do it alone. She needed to cooperate a little and act like an adult.
I'm done. All of you leave me out of this.