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Originally Posted by DocJohn

Comparing people who volunteer to help out keeping the community a safe place to the "war on terror" is a stretch and really undermines keeping an open mind about these things, don't ya think?

If you have your mind set, then nothing anyone can say is going to convince you, so I wish you well in your online journeys if indeed you choose not to stay.

John

I didn't compare people who volunteer to help out keeping the community safe to the war on terror, I said, "the army in Iraq is [not] just like the Iraqis" and by that I mean that in my experience the moderators had agendas that were in some cases antithetical to the members of the forums at BT1; additionally, I mean that people tend, in my overall experience, to want The Good, and do The Good, so moderators are like saying that people aren't good and don't want to do good. To me, armies should only be used against real enemies, not against kids, mums, grandparents who are doing nothing other than living... maybe not living with the same kind of carpet we prefer, but living in terms of breathing, eating, caring, just exactly like us.

To me, the forum was working really well without moderators.

But... I've also thought a lot about other forums I go to, and I realized that all of them have moderators. So it's only the moderators here that scare me, presumably because of BT1.