I just wanted to clarify that I started it, and I deleted it. My thread, my choice, the Admin. had nothing to do with it.

I took it down because I felt that the thread was being subverted. It's a free country, and if Bascot has problems with me that's his right. However, I didn't want the thread to turn into a soapbox for unrelated personal opinions, so I excercised my right to remove the thread.

If Bascot wishes to start another thread to air his opinions, that's his right, and I won't infringe on it.

I'm as dismayed as you are. I took the thread down because I honestly didn't want to drag other people into yet *another* discussion of what buttheads Seigneur de Leon thinks Jeff and I are. I thought getting rid of the thread (which, by the way, contained very little useful information, if any) would put an end to it. Apparently that's not the case. If I made a bad call, I apologize to all.

Please understand I did not take the thread down on a whim. I thought about my options for quite a while before I removed it. Responding didn't seem like an option, because no matter what I say, I'm never going to have the last word- whatever I say will engender a response of some sort. The word "gadfly" comes to mind here. We see what's going on in the other thread, and that's what I had hoped to avoid in the first place.

I'm tired to death of being accused of being selfish, paranoid and greedy ad nauseum, especially when I've spent the afternoon tracing patterns out for you and Jamie, and working on Mitake's stocking pattern. You are certainly not first in line for wondering if you should be posting on these boards at all.

Gwen

Should we all stop posting and talking with each other because we will not always agree with each other? Should we the fact that people are people, personalities will clash, and that there will be cases of petulance or misbehaviour on the parts of various individuals?

If that is the case, then we should just give up on LH altogether - never mind this board. There always has been and always will be 'politics' in re-enactment. It takes strong personalities to found new groups in eras of re-enactment (as we understand the term) largely unexplored. Strong personalities will clash, and disagreements and arguments will occur. Some people will never get along with other people, just because of a dislike caused by a trifleing incident.

If we allow ourselves to give up just because it gets difficult from time to time, then our efforts are doomed. We either need to put these tempests in a teapot in perspective, and "drive on troop!" as they say in the Cav., or we need to get on with less stressful things like gardening or macrame. Part of being a pioneer is accepting the going will be rough from time to time. My vote is for going on. (Then again, one of the chief scouts for the Donner party was a Reed - Wagons Ho!)

Thread originators can delete the entire thread.

Moderators can edit/delete within their sphere of influence.

The Admin can do all of the above.

Knowing Seigneur de Leon/Bascot personally, I'd like to make a few points:

1. He never makes an intentional insult. When he has an opinion, he expresses that opinion. He doesn't worry about stepping on toes...he isn't really trying to.

2. Seigneur de Leon/Bascot wouldn't troll. It's just not his style. Since what we all do is a hobby, he wouldn't take any disagreement with anyone on a discussion board seriously. After all, "it's just what I do for fun..."

3. Seigneur de Leon/Bascot generally calls a spade a spade. Such brutal honesty may rub people the wrong way sometimes, but he wouldn't speak thusly if he didn't operate under the assumption that a person he didn't agree with couldn't hold up their end of such a discussion.

Seigneur de Leon/Bascot didn't intentionally infringe on the rules of the Firestryker page. Nor would he have taken the discussion to another board. It's simply not his way of doing things, and he would further find such a way of acting to be a waste of time and energy.

I'm not trying to choose any side here, merely trying to give a bit of insight.