07-21-2024, 08:50 PM
Being a relative newcomer here on PunaWeb, having been a member a little over a year now, I have spent a significant amount of time going back and reading posts literally since day one of PunaWeb.
I have found and still find PunaWeb to be very useful and informative on a wide host of topics and issues. I have found numerous posters to be very interesting even though I may not agree with them on any particular topic.
What I have found and truly understand is this underlying hypocrisy a handful of posters, both past and present, who feel the need to dictate to Rob how he should run this forum as well as asking Rob to change the rules he established when he first started PunaWeb.
Granted there have been and will be posters who push Rob’s envelope to a breaking point and have been banned. Even several posters who were banned once coming back with a new name and continuing to push the envelope even further.
Having said that, I do not see any significant wandering of topics being non Hawaii/Puna related. What I have seen being done to others as well as having been subjected to myself is name calling, degrading terms of peoples nationality, occupation and/or gender. Along with several posters saying NOTHING about those “digs.”
I have watched several posters complaining about quoting posts, fonts used, spacing used and number of posts being made, while not contributing one single thing to the subject matter of any particular thread. Further, I have found that the very posters complaining about other posters using the quote function, if you go and read those posters posts, they themselves use the quote function on their own replies to other posters. The “I can do it, but how dare you do it” mentality is quite astounding as well as humorous to an extent.
In short, this thread is the epitome of the point I am making.
It’s my opinion that if Rob doesn’t like what is being said, he would say something and/or do something. Personally when I read threads like this one, my opinion is the equivalent of some good old “white boy” club trying to keep the discussion limited to only what they want to hear. And further limiting who can and cannot say what they want to.
I commend Rob for PunaWeb. I don’t think he needs to make any statements about his direction or hopes or expectations. He is not running for political office. From what I see, PunaWeb is exactly what Rob envisioned since the first day PunaWeb went live.
I have found and still find PunaWeb to be very useful and informative on a wide host of topics and issues. I have found numerous posters to be very interesting even though I may not agree with them on any particular topic.
What I have found and truly understand is this underlying hypocrisy a handful of posters, both past and present, who feel the need to dictate to Rob how he should run this forum as well as asking Rob to change the rules he established when he first started PunaWeb.
Granted there have been and will be posters who push Rob’s envelope to a breaking point and have been banned. Even several posters who were banned once coming back with a new name and continuing to push the envelope even further.
Having said that, I do not see any significant wandering of topics being non Hawaii/Puna related. What I have seen being done to others as well as having been subjected to myself is name calling, degrading terms of peoples nationality, occupation and/or gender. Along with several posters saying NOTHING about those “digs.”
I have watched several posters complaining about quoting posts, fonts used, spacing used and number of posts being made, while not contributing one single thing to the subject matter of any particular thread. Further, I have found that the very posters complaining about other posters using the quote function, if you go and read those posters posts, they themselves use the quote function on their own replies to other posters. The “I can do it, but how dare you do it” mentality is quite astounding as well as humorous to an extent.
In short, this thread is the epitome of the point I am making.
It’s my opinion that if Rob doesn’t like what is being said, he would say something and/or do something. Personally when I read threads like this one, my opinion is the equivalent of some good old “white boy” club trying to keep the discussion limited to only what they want to hear. And further limiting who can and cannot say what they want to.
I commend Rob for PunaWeb. I don’t think he needs to make any statements about his direction or hopes or expectations. He is not running for political office. From what I see, PunaWeb is exactly what Rob envisioned since the first day PunaWeb went live.