I used to use Wes?s site as a point of reference and information when I first started doing advocacy volunteering but have since stopped because of the responses I got from the public., Therefor my opinion is based on my experience with sharing his site with other people, not hypocritical finger pointing and accusation. I?m saddened that it has been perceived otherwise.
It hasn't.
It just is buried in a thread by people sniping at his son, and repeating this nonsense over and over for personal reasons.
Look at it this way. Lets say there is a verdict that causes rioting in the streets and People are looting and beating people up at random. You agree that the verdict was wrong so you go right in the middle of it and try to offer up a rational viewpoint on why the verdict was incorrect.
Wrong venue. Thats all I'm saying. In light of all the personal attacks on Wes here, I think any criticism of his website that is done by rational thinkers will fall on deaf ears, in this forum. In fact, I am quite certain of it.
If you have real concerns, I would take them up with the webmaster, or avoid the website. But airing them out here among a bunch of posts that attack him personally and viscously solves nothing.
JMO
I was responding to the thread topic and the subject at hand, not the inner-fighting and board drama. I have no idea by looking at an IP address what the purpose behind someone's post is. Maybe I haven?t been doing this long enough or maybe I just don?t care. There are always going to be assholes on here trying to destroy forum order and significant discussion, it happens all the time, this is Fornits.
But we're not allowed to moderate, so we tolerate which sometimes means having to ignore the meanies. I've been begging Ginger to put an ignore feature in but that's another topic altogether. Maybe if people were required to register, I might have had a clue as to what this person?s ulterior motive was, but I didn't. I apologize if you felt this the inappropriate venue to address my ideas about his site and respect that as your opinion, I just happen to disagree. My impression of this forum is that you have always had to find the good through some bad and tasteless posts. I think Wes knows this as well.
I hope it?s obvious that I have no intention of hurting Wes and no personal agenda here. But I did agree with another post in the thread and didn?t see why we couldn?t try having a productive dialogue about opinions and thoughts on the site and it?s changes over the past few years. After all, it?s for all of us right? I always saw it that way?
If I had sent Wes a private letter asserting my issues and thoughts I wouldn?t have had the opportunity to bounce them off of other people and hear their opinions. This is not the first time I?ve seen this subject approached on this board and it has seemed to have always been done poorly, but that does not mean that some good still can?t come from it. It doesn?t have to be a rag session.
