Originally posted by FallenFromTheTree
I only posted a link that someone else posted.
If our members choose to contact Mr. Luskin's office, I would hope
they only do so with a reasonably amount of dignity.
I know you did. That's cool, if that was your actual intent. To give you an idea of where I'm coming from, I recently had a mod do something that I thought was terrible. Another member let it happen, and I was royally pissed. Not at the mods, they were justified in doing what they did due to the members infolved's responses. I was pissed at that member. I wrote a scathing essay as a result, and U2Ued it to myself. I knew I was upset, and wanted to reread it and edit it when I wasn't so angry to make my point as well as I could. Another member, a close friend of mine, asked me what my intentions were with that. Of course I told him it was to cause change in the policies of ATS to make it more fair. However, he got me thinking. I ended up delving deep within my own mind, and realized what it was I was doing. I wasn't trying to create change. I wasn't even trying to correct what I saw as wrong. I was trying to hurt that member. That was my goal, and, from what I heard from my friends, both on ATS and off, that I sent the essay to, I did a very good job. I evicerated that member in the essay.
That essay is gone now, I deleted it from my U2U, from my hard drive, and from my email. I sent it to a lot of non-ATS members from my church to make sure I wasn't over reacting. Everyone had said what I wrote was completely honest, but the one member of ATS asked me my intentions. I realized it wasn't to fix a problem, but rather to get my revenge on that person.
So I just want to ask you to do the same. You don't have to come on here, if you discover you were doing it for revenge, and let us know. Just look at it, and think through those eyes I just gained before you post something like that. I would prefer if you not respond to this post. Then, no one will know if your thinking,
or if you realized you were trying to hurt Rove through any means possible. What's said is said, and it can't be taken back. Chances are, the edit button is gone from your post. My goal with this, if you're like me and reacted as I did, is to open your eyes to that for future posts. There are no hard feelings, and this will be the last time I talk about this, even if you respond. Rock, rock on, and continue to deny ignorance
