This is giving me a headache.

Guys, repeat to yourselves: This is for fun.

Why are some of you trying to suck the fun out of things for others? This isn't some party where you have to tolerate the presence of others. You can totally avoid other people or ignore them.

And I concede - Stevendedalus is right and I'm wrong, some mommyism is needed.

I am thankful I am not a single mother!

I think you all at least know that I care about our JU family and truly want things to calm down.  Therefore, the naughty children need to go to their rooms for a "time out" and Mom will make some cookies

A bit of advice: the next time something in the blogosphere pisses you off, take a deep breath, count to 10, then ask yourself "is this worth my energy?"  The answer will be "no" more often than not. 

stevendedalus, thanks for bringing things back to subject.  I am glad you liked the title.  I missed the Draginol discussion regarding mommyism.

Greywar, I think mommy might have to open a couple of cans of whoop ass soon

Pheonixboi: it is beyond belief that you could read the previous few posts and still come out of the blue and bitch about Sir Peter.

Dunno about mommyism... bt if someone wants to give me admin status and the ban button I can have this problem fixed in about 2 minutes, with casualites on BOTH sides. Enough is enough. Now STFU and let JillU have her thread back.

If you don't like what people have to say, don't read their blogs. If you have a "real" problem, email the powers that be. If they don't administrate the site to suit you, find another site. How is this so complicated?

Sir Peter is... well... Sir Peter. I'm not sure how you guys overlook the billionaire aristocratic stuff and then get soooooo upset when he says something you don't like. Geez, in for a penny, in for a pound. I think if you take any of it with a grain of salt, you ougghta take it all that way.

If this were a workplace or a playground you people would know exactly what to do. I call for an immediate cease-fire and suggest the banning of the next person that starts something.

"Don't start no sh*t, there won't be no sh*t", to quote the urban vernacular... though I'd take it a step further and say don't entertain any sh*t at all, whether somone else started it or not.

but id have you for a friend any day of the week

Right back at ya!

Dharma, people will either forgive and forget or simply move on.  Either way, like you said, "This too shall pass."

Stevendedalus, I think Draginol will have a constant supply of headache inducing material

As a mom, I am well familiar with the fact that even the best of kids can be cranky monsters sometimes.  Things just seem to escalate far faster online than in the real world.  The problem being, you have a bad day, say something nasty, everyone in the communtiy is there to jump all over it.  In the real world, you have a bad day, say something nasty, chill out for a while, then make nice.  Online things get escalated to a point where making nice is no longer an option.

I'm not saying I think this is good, bad or even if I think there is anything that can be done about it.  I do think pride gets in the way of people just walking away and moving on.  I also think that people form opinions to quickly and too all encompassing.  I personally try to judge each new blog on its own merits whether or not I had a bad interaction with the author.  Sure, if I quickly find that no matter what the person writes, I get irked, I avoid that author.  I don't, however seek to have them sent packing (unless they are being griefers).

But that is just my opinion.  I am pleased to see that my opinion is often welcome around here.

Maybe I'm just naive but I never noticed all of the negative things you spoke of. I have a strange feeling it has a lot to do with frustration over the war in Iraq though. I could be wrong but that's my hypothesis.

Capt. over and out!

Looks like one particularly large child has managed to reach the matches again....somebody'd better call the fire department on this one.....

the author and others involved in the aforementioned effort are the ones causing the turmoil at present.

Have you not seen the progression?  He's gone from being mildly funny to really offensive.

You can go on about the parody and him being a muppet all you want to, my point is still that there is a person, a real live human behind the parody and the mask. The character only says and does what the writer tells him to do.

At what point is 'parody' taken too far?  Will it be when he hits a particularly sensitive subject with you, Baker? 

Should I demand that professional wrestling be banned because of the heinous violence I see there? People are assaulted and abused constantly on the WWE, women are abused. What would you think of someone who ranted their outrage that such awful things were occuring on their TV? How is Sir P. much different? Wrestling has it villains spouting hateful things, too. Are those wrestlers awful people, or do they just play one on TV?

I dislike most Rap music. They talk about killing people, abusing and degrading women, acting as antagonists to the police and society as a whole. Should I have the right to tell a store I am in that they can't play the music? Do I have the right to insist that the radio be changed when I am in someone else's car? No, I can decide not to ride with them next time, or go to a different store.

Who are you to say Sir P. doesn't have a right to post on my blogs? I deleted one of his posts the other day because I thought it was tasteless, and told him so, and had he done it again I would have blacklisted him. Whenever that happens, he always reacts well and I have never had to ban him once. It isn't my job, though, to tell him what he can post on OTHER PEOPLE'S blogs. That is what you are essentially trying to do.

I don't like what you write, Pheonixboi. Sometimes the way you express your "Poz" lifestyle is disturbing and beyond the pale of taste to me. Should I be allowed to say that you aren't allowed to post on OTHER PEOPLE'S blogs, out of fear I might accidently read your opinions? Wouldn't that be up to the owners of those blogs?

If this was a case of a neo-nazi spreading hateful propaganda, he'd eventully get banned for his conduct, not his opinions. So far they all have, and I have delighted in it. No one with half a brain would believe that Sir P. is a real person, though; the story is posed far, far too "out there", and purposely so. If he made himself more believable, then the hateful and bigotted comments might be taken as real attempts to harass or offend.

I think the hand behind Sir P. has made every attempt to let people know that this is parody. If he has been abusive to you, ignore it or report it to an admin. This "war" is stupid, and you are acting far more like the people than normally get exiled than he does. I'm not too surprised that Pheonixboi would act like this, but I would have expected more out of Dharma.

To me he is this site's "Triumph the Dog", or professional wrestling villain. On the one hand he can really, really annoy you, but wouldn't you feel idiotic for taking him this seriously?

Pheonixboi reminds me of someone that would go off and physically assault some poor wrestler because he thinks that somehow the villain schtick is real. Come back to reality, folks. Those guys aren't really beating each other senseless and Sir Peter isn't really influencing international politics and killing Russian mail-order brides.

but I would have expected more out of Dharma.

We all have our Achilles' heel...and that was mine.

I'm done talking about/to him.