This place never ceases to amaze me.
What's it now, Friday afternoon? On Wednesday evening a guy takes IM information he obviously knows should stay there and puts it on the DG here? Why would he do that? You have one guess.
I ask him on the IM, and nicely to please take the post off the DG and he refuses. So what I told him in the last IM was "Suit yourself" (literally that was it).
I call up the self appointed "mediator" on here, explain the situation of the information on that post and why I sort of need it to be taken off the DG, and I ask him to do that and he does as we were speaking. I appreciate it and that's that, or so I thought.
Next day Tom MacWood apparently goes ballistic that a post he obviously knew perfectly well never should've been on the DG was removed (the post was about one sentence long
), and he promptly demands that his registration on this site be cancelled or whatever. Certainly noone asked him to do that or even thought of such a thing.
Immediately following that this thread entitled "What Goes on in an IM stays in an IM" shows up on here.
OK, well I asked myself what is this about? Well about an hour later our West Coast litigator decides he needs to investigate the whole thing between MacWood and I which I was only trying to keep private.
He creates about a five point list on a post on here and on the Merion thread on all that he thinks this might be about including a description of how and why this must all be my fault.
I ask Moriarty by IM if he'd please remove that post. He doesn't even respond on the IM just on the DG about how and why he can't do that. I ask our self appointed mediator again if he'd mind removing Moriarty's post because it's airing even more loudly the very thing I wanted to keep private in the first place.
Our self appointed mediator tells me he's so upset with me he wants to put his fist through a door and he'll never remove another post I ask him to again. Then about halfway into this thread he blames me for----well I'm really not too sure what for.
All I wanted to do is keep something that doesn't involve this website or DG private by not involving more than three people at most.
Now we have a thread about a 100 posts long that's turned into a collective catharsis over a scandal or moral dilemma or whatever.
I was just trying to keep something private that had nothing to do with this DG, nothing whatsoever to do with David Moriarty or the rest of you. I wish Tom MacW would've just deleted the post from the DG himself in the first place when I asked him to do that nicely and then we could've talked or argued or kissed or whatever we wanted to do on the IM and kept it all private, instead of having it aired all over the world on the Internet by self appointed mediators and laid off litigators or whatnot.
This place is just amazing, but guys, if all this created a collective cathartic experience for ya'll, who the hell am I to say I'm not just so happy to have obliged?
RJ:
That was a real nice post you made on here--kinda beautiful really, and it also nixxed, in my mind, my request to delete this thread and made the thread a "keeper". You ain't just whistlin' Dixie some of us take ourselves and all this stuff too seriously.
