[M Kehoe]

I tried and tried with Ash, to no avail. Eschoir was hopeless.

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[BADJOE]

Like I said. Some cases are hopeless. : )

[Mr. Bird]

Do you think Ash would be banished today? He wasn't really a snot, and quite frankly Don Morgan's "Ash Alerts" were much more annoying.

I agree with the premise, having reasoned debate among civilized members. I believe the problem is that we just don't run across anyone who meets the "civilized" criterion. They end up either posting false information (not rumor, but blatant falsehoods), or just start name calling. If Jim wants this to be a closed forum, fine by me. I still love the one stop shopping for the news.

[Lazamataz]

I tried and tried with Ash, to no avail. Eschoir was hopeless.

Ash was at least a good guy, reasonably articulate, made a decent argument. We could agree on certain points after we hashed things out.

Eschoir was mostly here to piss people off.

Some people are not salvagable. A+BERT was just too irresponsible with the bottle. Buckeroo can get pretty abrasive but is pretty good sometimes.

There are a lot of people who leave because of the current forum direction. They don't opus; they aren't banned; they just go away.

I earnestly hope that conservative dialogue and those ideas that might challenge the GOP status quo are still embraced and welcome here. Sometimes it seems otherwise.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Eschoir was hopeless."

That dude's problems with FR.com were not rationally-based.

I must admit to missing the opportunity to poke barbs at him occasionally...MUD