Vote BTO off Agriville!

[freewheat]

Freedom of abortion, freedom of gay
marriage, freedom of criminals, freedom of
speech if it fits your mold, freedom of
everything. It is the liberal way.

But freedom for western farmers? Not a
chance. The party of the tolerant is made
up of an interesting bunch. LOL

[oneoff]

You only earn freedom of speech when you are willing to make those same statements in public and are willing to be held accountable and willing to defend that position or opinion in public as well as behind a pen name .
There is a great danger in cowardly spouting off untrue; vulgar; harmful; disparaging remarks from the safety of anonymity. Those attacks, and their damage can be minimized by deleting those posts immediately; and requesting that next time they are repeated that it be done in public. Its a matter of enforcing a code of ethics and conduct that we are all expected to observe on this or any other site.
Its easy to pick out the obvious inappropriate and/or badly worded comments. Nine out of ten people will reach the same conclusion in a fraction of a second. And things like an NFU opinion are not anywhere near being in that class.

[oneoff]

http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/1540


Joe Dales needs to watch this episode; and BTO too and then I'd love to hear their defense. This is indeed what "dirt" is coming to on the internet.

[parsley]

You can post any comments you want, oneoff. But ie Parsley or gregpet cannot dictate whether or not it should be deleted, or whether oneoff or sadie be censored or even banned.

It's not my or your site.

Being indignant doesn't qualify you to presume ownership of this site.

And taking a straw vote doesn't give us the right to dictate rules on this forum.

Joe can delete if he so chooses.

And bad posts ARE in the final analysis, traceable. Site owners, with a little time, can trace most anonymous posts.

And thus, the postee can become VERY accountable. Pars

[oneoff]

http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/1540


Joe Dales needs to watch this episode; and BTO too and then I'd love to hear their defense. This is indeed what "dirt" is coming to on the internet.

[FarmRanger]

Burbert/BTO leaves stinky turds of incoherent
blather on almost every thread.  

We have no right to tell Joe Dales to get out the
shovel, but he doesn't, eventually the only
animals left in this barn will be the pigs.

I, for one, am getting tired of overlooking the
turds.

Blessings in the New Year to all those here who
genuinely want to discuss ways to improve the
farming industry.

[ALLFARMER]

Well said Farmranger

[frustrated1]

I'm all for defending free speech. It's a right and a
responsibility. With it also comes results. Persuasion or
consequence? I've gone back and read some of the
previous posts of BTO. What would be the result of this
"free speech" talk in your local pub or a community hall?
This is a public forum of sorts, should not the results be
the same? The community accepts the challenged
individual as is and tolerates/ignores it or the guy's a
jerk and gets the crap beat out of him a few times. Are
we certain BTO is the jerk or does he have serious
problems needing professional help? Not sure which is
more disturbing, someone intentionally writing as he
does or the thought of him typing out his "manifesto"
under the haze of a dim bulb....

[parsley]

A handfull of past lewd remarks on AV can't hold a candle to some of CBC's Canadian content! Pars

[BreadWinner]

QUOTE
BTOfarmall posted Jan 1, 2011 6:09
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"""Dose eggs are already fertilized already, by me....

Good ting I's ain't got a wife....

One ting I love is stealin' Another' man's wife... Nothin' Bettter den committin' Robbery.......

You name da year, I'll be sure to Ride her hard and Put'r away WET.......

Tonight was a gooooood nite. Tanks fer da daughters & wives..... ""

Does this man sound sick to you? I sure wouldn't post my name on this statement, it is going to be pretty tough to defend yourself after speaking like this.

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley,

Get your mind out of the gutter!

I do agree with Farmranger that BTO may well need some serious help if this is the way of the thoughts this mind holds.

[frustrated1]

"methinks thou protest too much" Pars, 'fess up! BTO
is your alter ego isn't he?

[parsley]

Every time Burbert posted, you boys fed him. Same with BTO. Look it up.

Anyone who runs a website will get porn/unpleasant/spam/advertising posted. A lot of it from China, SA, actually.

It goes with the territory.

To start setting rules TO LIMIT, even with the slimmest provocation, (what is the % of "off" posts for heaven's sakes in 45,000 hits?) is an indication of your tendencies to abandon free speech, imho.

I would be more worried about the Hutterite comments as far as liability is concerned, as well as the insult, of course.

If you wan to ruffle your feathers like a bunch of old hens, at a few off comments, go ahead. You are simply soliciting more attention-getters.

The people who comment on mainly people vs those who mainly discuss issues will sometimes blur a bit.

I note armers flock to reply. Name-calling is fun for some and that will never change, will it? Pars

[grassfarmer]

"methinks quite a few of you protest too much" Remember every time you point a finger there are three pointing back at yourself.

[riders2010]

isn't this typical farmers, this has gone from a talk about a guy saying innapropriate things to a full blown out discussion involving everything from the cwb to the left the right abortion you name it. I'll bet a beer or two bto is the only guy sittin back laughing his ass off at this circus thinking we are the nuts. And we think we can solve agricultural problems!