Appropriate Use of Agri-ville - Guidelines. Please be respectful. Thanks.

[joedales]

Hi Everyone:

While 99% of the Agri-ville.com users use good judgement, we have had a couple of complaints and we wanted to review the Guidelines and ask you to cool off before you post a comment that is inappropriate....


To ensure you and the other Agri-ville members get the most out of Agri-ville we have a few guidelines for you to follow.

Meeting Room Guidelines

Following these simple and easy guidelines will help keep the discussion/debate interesting and worthwhile for all Agri-ville.com members.

· Check the Meeting Room before posting a question; just to ensure you're not asking a question someone else already has posted.

Keep your questions and comments related to the subject

Participate! Don't be shy, answer or comment on a posting that interests you.

Do not dominate a conversation. Allow others the ability to express their views and opinions.

Revisit Agri-ville.com frequently to keep up with the newest postings.
Non-Acceptable Postings -The following types of postings will NOT be tolerated in Agri-ville.com:

Remarks that personally threaten any Agri-ville.com participant, including members and moderators.

Remarks that are slanderous or defaming in any form.

Remarks that use profanity.

Thanks and enjoy using Agri-ville.com

[just_wondering]

Would examples of slander be like saying Tom4 is high at meetings, or calling wilagro a drunk?
or is it just reminding agri-ville users that Benny is a troll and not to reply.
Who's got the thin skin?
What about WD9's idea of an unmoderated dungeon personal threats are out of course but nae calling is alright
can I say WTF?
Personally I like acronyms

[Fransisco]

So then are the following examples the type of respectful commenting that is acceptable ?

<blockquote>agstar77 posted Jul 6, 2007 13:58
Yeah, Sawatsky was a trucker pretending to be a farmer scamming grain across the border for his own gain.

agstar77 posted Jul 6, 2007 13:54

Believing in Rolf Penner and the tank, is pretty much like believing in the Titanic being unsinkable. Both beliefs require ignorance of reality and a belief in the Fairy Godmother. </blockquote>

[BennyHin]

Thanks for reminding us Joe to stay on the subject. One of my beefs is when a single user logins under multiple usernames.

For example, if you look at the IP addresses for: chaffmeister, wedino, fransico, incognito, and at least two others, this is all the same person.

Joe: Is it possible for you to only allow one user logon ID per IP address on this site, and filtering out proxy servers?

[wilagro]

BennyHin: I suspected as much for quite awhile. When there was disagreement with a stated position, there was a huge deluge of essentially the same protest so as to denigrate and condemn the dissident point of view. Not particularly sporting IMHO.

As per the warning...yes, sometimes we get carried away and tempers get stirred up. Commodity marketing is a pretty hot topic. Tit for tat might make us feel better, but it doesn't look too good for the npn-participants and the shy lurkers.

[wilagro]

Fransisco: Methinks you might just be stirring the pot. Respectfully...cool it...is my advice to you.

[parsley]

BennyHinn,

What you are stating is hogwash.

I have been in communication with:

wedino, fransico, incognito

They are three entirely different people from three entirely different locations, far apart!


You are not telling the truth Benny Hinn, and I find that distasteful

Parsley

[charliep]

Just want to highlight the intent of this posting - not to put bounds on what is being said (all adults with thick skins) but rather guidelines on how it is said. To highlight the first posting.

"Non-Acceptable Postings -The following types of postings will NOT be tolerated in Agri-ville.com:

Remarks that personally threaten any Agri-ville.com participant, including members and moderators.

Remarks that are slanderous or defaming in any form.

Remarks that use profanity."

Appologize for a sports analogy but am watching World Cup under 20 soccer these days. Amazing the skill of these kids. Am looking for the same level of skill in debate/expression of opinion.

[Fransisco]

Willy you need to look in the mirror and take your own advice.

Both Benny and yourself love to weigh in with flame throwers first.

[wd9]

Benny, please explain how you extract an IP address from a user name. This interests me greatly!

[AdamSmith]

Could someone explain to me how Benny accessed even the IP Addresses of the users? I'm no computer geek, so I have zero clue. Not that I am wanting to try and figure out who people are, but obviously Benny has interpreted something totally wrong, because I too know that chaffmeister, incognito, fransisco, and wedino are all totally different people living in totally different areas.

With respect to the inappropriate postings. I have had a theory for sometime that may help explain the venomous responses from cwb supporters.

Free market supportes see the market as just the market, it's the arena in which business is done and it is the rules that allow themselves as individuals to participate on an equal footing as all others. We also believe that it is entirely up to the individual to what degree they participate. So in kind we only see the cwb as a federally mandated intrusion into that arena with the sole intent of preventing individuals from participating as individuals.

Yet CWB supporters, only see an us vs them situation. The us part is the collective which they are apart of, the them is anyone who isn't a part of the us. So when we attack the cwb they respond as if they have been personally attacked. The cwb supporter has little confidence as an individual and see evildoers who are out to get them everywhere they look and only feel safe within the security of the collective (the cwb).

This is why they respond the way they do. Why a simple question asking them to explain an inconcistency from the cwb results in a verbal tantrum or to get their comment on an observable fact about the poor perfomance of the cwb results in a personal attack.

Burbert, Wilagro, BennyHinn, Agstar77 and company prove this on an almost daily basis.

[AdamSmith]

Further to my theory,

Once you understand the fundamental differences between the two mindsets, and once you understand that one group is driven by optimism and opportunity and the other is driven by fear and greed.

You will quickly understand why this industry has been as dysfunctional as it has been, and why so long as the policy makers of this country develop and adopt policy which demand that oil and water must mix, it will always be dysfunctional.

So I say to those people who feel engaging in the cwb debate is beneth them or can be avoided, you are just as foolish as the single minded supporters of the cwb, because you have accepted the impossible proposition that oil and water CAN mix.

[cottonpicken]

Looks to me like there are a lot of pots calling a lot of kettles black around here.

[parsley]

btw,BennyHinn et al,

I have also spoken to and individually corresponded/spoken with fransisco, AdamSmiith and charliep. They are entirely different people from different areas, and not one of the forementioned.

They are real, and they are consistent, so don't try to accuse them either.

Point is AS, do you want the BennyHinns et al for business partners?
What kind of mess will they get you in with attitudes like this?

Parsley

[parsley]

Nothing to do with pots and pans, cotton, so stick to the facts.

1. Benny Hinn made this accusation:

"the IP addresses for: chaffmeister, wedino, fransico, incognito, and at least two others, this is all the same person"


2.I know for a fact these are not the same people.

I called BH on his BS.

Parsley