QuoteBrlesq - 12/23/2018 12:32 PM
Quotetuck0411 - 12/23/2018 10:54 AM
QuoteKid Montana - 12/21/2018 7:43 AM
Somebody call the Whaambulance. Poor lil tuck was getting dogpiled by a bunch of meanies, he needed rescuing.
Hardly. From my angle, the "meanies" were dogpiling themselves and looking pretty silly in the process. But it was all in the name of "professionalism", of course...
Tuck, its hard to disagree with you that many of the comments lacked "professionalism". There were probably better ways of getting the point across. But since these couple of threads began on 12/21, you have posted 4 more reviews, and all of them were much more about reviewing a cigar and much less about the ambiance, so that is certainly appreciated. Personally, I think that your scoring of cigars is fair and objective, and you rate dog rockets appropriately as dog rockets. You certainly put an effort into writing the review, and everybody does them differently. Keep doing it this way and I doubt there will be more objections.
And please note, this particular thread (Fun Police) wasn't aimed at you or even about you. It was about a having an admin freeze a thread that clearly has not gotten out of control, or an admin that deletes threads or posts that no longer suit them. Many of us view that kind of totalitarian censorship as a much bigger transgression than any review you will post, and the site has had a lot of good members leave because of this BS. Four+ years ago this site used to have A LOT more forum activity and members posting, and was a lot more fun to visit daily. Most topics were fair game unless they were clearly discriminatory or NSFW. And rarely did the front page have a stale or day old topic on it. But then the the pussyfication began, and the effort to make sure that everything was politically correct and that no one's feeling ever got hurt drove away some great guys. So that's why many folks remain frustrated.
Oh, and IBTL!
Thanks for the comments, Bruce. Although, I haven't yet figured out what "IBTL" means, but I'm sure a light bulb will go off shortly...
I can't guarantee there won't be more "ambiance" stuff as I do enjoy adding context once in awhile. Clearly, some like it and some don't. Oh well, I'm not going to try and please everyone....
As for this thread not being aimed at me, noted, but Kid Montana did mention me in particular, which I felt was worth responding to. As for censorship in general, yeah, I'm not a fan of it either, as evidenced by my resistance to writing my reviews a particular way. I think if the other thread hadn't been frozen, we could have worked out our differences in a civil enough manner, or at least I hope we could have. I'm certainly not here to make enemies and I hope no one else is, either. And on that note, I think I'm going to go smoke one....