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redfoxrising 18-Mar-24, 16:26	Club comments club complaint I received 2 emails “ I cannot tell you how many PM's I get about your club(now ruined)by the gang of 4 and the neutral club.You may not have the power to stop it over in NG,but placing pressure on the founder and others may help. “ The other email was about the neutral club. It seems like a club war, and I believe that Thumper and I never wanted this to happen, Thumper is in our club and I am in his club. Let’s see what we can do about this matter. I will start off by shutting off the NG threads here. Victor was removed from this club and accepted in the other Club where he has a place to post in their threads. Those posts do not need to be here in our club. As for complaints we can try our best to do are part as I have suggested.
lord_shiva 18-Mar-24, 17:21	Why Why would someone bitch about the conversations in the club? All they have to do is not read them. There is even an option to unfollow threads that are not of any interest to someone. For example, I have zero interest in the prayers and devotional threads, and so I’m never going to look at them.
zorroloco 18-Mar-24, 17:41	Red Good idea
redfoxrising 26-Mar-24, 04:55	bullies of the internet It seems that there will always be that person who wants attention. So with that said I thought it would be best not to use our club to promote any type of attention. My first reaction was to reach out to the pm sent to me and I found that I am still on his ignore list. Seems he doesn’t want a reply directly back to him. So instead of fighting a fire with an accelerant I decided to correct the bullly issues which I had let go because no one objected even the club founder of that club. I reached out to that person and asked if he had received the same dm messages. He told me that no he did not. I thought about this matter and I figure he ignores the person who sent me the 2 dm’s. This is what I believe is the reason I received the messages. I currently have no one on my ignore list. So this is my advice to anyone who gets bullied here on GK or the internet in whole, use ignore and I will still keep my list empty because if someone wants to send me a message, I am open to receive it. It only works if that person is not ignoring them.
redfoxrising 26-Mar-24, 05:05	Our club considers requests for membership We will consider the requests. This does mean that they will be approved. If a member is accepted and becomes a Mod here in this club, they must not ignore anyone in our club. If I send a message to anyone in this club and it bounces back you are on this persons ignore list. They will be removed from the club and I will then and only then do the same to them.
zorroloco 22-Apr-24, 13:23	Why is Ace still here? He doesn’t contribute anything worthwhile and doesn’t interact with other members.
redfoxrising 12-May-24, 04:58	Ace What do you have to say about yourself? I believe that you try to be involved with our club
ace-of-aces 12-May-24, 13:50	Happy Mother's Day! Celebrate Mother's Day even if you are pro-abortionist.
lord_shiva 12-May-24, 14:21	Celebrate Mother’s Day Even if you are pro death to mothers of failed pregnancies. Life begins when the fetal heart door closes and the lungs draw oxygen. Before that, the mother’s oxygenated blood alone keeps the fetus alive. If the heart door fails to close, the newborn infant dies. If the umbilical cord is wrapped about its neck, it may asphyxiate. So many things can go horribly wrong long before birth, including contraceptive failure. None of these things serves as an excuse to foist an unwanted child into this over burdened world. Eight billion teeming humans is about 7.5 billion far too many.
redfoxrising 12-May-24, 16:25	Ace & LS thank you for posting Happy Mother’s day! The prolife and abortion are topics to be discussed in another thread please. This thread is not the place that part of your post here.
ace-of-aces 13-Jun-24, 02:24	Is gmforsythe still in this club? Did he leave or evicted from this club?
redfoxrising 13-Jun-24, 04:58	Exited the Club 6/2/2024 I noticed him exiting on 6/2/2024 If you want more information please ask him by messaging please. Asking about him being evicted is rude ACE. If anyone wants to leave this club they do not need to ask or explain to me why. Sometimes I have left clubs and be messaged by the founder to find out why I left. I do not do this unless I know what happened in the exchange of public messages that allready show a reason why a person has left. If you want to private message me, I will discuss you staying in the club. As the founder I do not want to evict people unless they continue to trolll or make false statements. Ron
baddeeds 13-Jun-24, 06:19	I am similar to Ron because when someone left my club, I didn't ask why. But, more importantly, if and when someone leaves my team, I don't directly ask them why they left since it's not really any of my business. Plus, I have a policy that if someone leaves, they could always come back because I know that people will come and go which is ok.
redfoxrising 13-Jun-24, 07:31	Good point baddeeds Joe, You were the first friend here on this site. I remember learning about annotations from you. I have not done them much here anymore as people don't always comment much into the hard work and time that is necessary in making them. I still will look at them when time permits.
bobspringett 12-Aug-24, 02:30	Riaan is with us again! For those who are still wet behind the ears or suffering from dementia, Riaan was a stalwart in the old Fiat Lux. He should settle in here like a rock into the silt.
riaannieman 12-Aug-24, 06:02	Hahahahaha! Hi there, bobspringett! And thanks for that welcome. I hope to learn as much from all of you as I did from my friends in Fiat Lux. Thanks for allowing me into this club. Please read my bio, and if you have questions I shall answer them as best I can. I believe in honesty, integrity, treating people with respect and never forgetting that there is a real person on the other side- the internet is not faceless, victimless or anonymous. Please remember that English is not my first or second language, not even my third! Sometimes I find difficulty in expressing myself clearly. Please help me if that happens.
lord_shiva 12-Aug-24, 17:59	Welcome Back! Always great to have Riaan in the crowd.
ace-of-aces 22-Sep-24, 09:27	Am I a con man? The following forum post made by ace-of-aces on 07-Aug-24, 10:08 has been reported by ****** with the following note: Quack medicine solicitation . If the reported messages violate GameKnot's Rules and Policies, please take the appropriate action as soon as possible — delete the offending post and warn or remove the users involved. ================= My comment: Recently, I received a notification from GK admin (see above) that I violated GK rules by posting a new medicine C15 for discussion. One of the GK members jumped to the conclusion that I was soliciting to sell this medicine to GK folks for my profit. The letter implies that I am a quack MD and a con man exploiting other naive GK folks as if I am an illicit drug pusher. Please let me know, If I did something wrong so that I can improve my postings in GK forums without harm to anybody. I can guarantee that I won't retaliate your opinions which are posted in good faith even if they are negative to my views.
lord_shiva 22-Sep-24, 09:46	Con Man Yes, not all con men are in it for the money. I find it scary to think you’re an actual medical doctor. I believe our troops deserve much better. Don’t take this personally.
bobspringett 22-Sep-24, 14:12	Ace 09:27 <Please let me know, If I did something wrong so that I can improve my postings in GK forums without harm to anybody.> Ace, I don't think I have ever accused you of corrupt dealings or premeditated malice. My complaints against you go no deeper than this; that you post whatever your favorite source says, accepting it as hard fact without thinking whether or not it makes sense. In my estimation you are not malevolent, just out of your depth and badly advised. What can you do to improve your posts? Start by actually THINKING like a good doctor should. Look for symptoms, consider evidence, plot out what would happen if each available option were to be taken. If you do that in medicine, then do it in other aspects of life too. It's called evidence-based thinking and forethought. (If you DON'T do that in medicine, then surrender your registration!) I don't think you are a nasty person; you just don't think critically enough to be able to distinguish between fact and conspiracy/propaganda.
lord_shiva 22-Sep-24, 14:24	Bob is More Generous Than I Do I ascribe nefarious motives to Ace? Yes I do. Because this level of gullibility, ESPECIALLY from a medical professional, comes across as willful negligence. Like leaving swabs and clamps in a patient because removing them is just too much trouble. While Bob is right to offer this olive tree (more than just a branch), Ace has a long history of remarkably weak claims. Is he capable of genuine reform, at his age? Well, I look to Lev Parnas as an example. The man was a solid MAGA acolyte, playing a prominent role in the downfall of Ukrainian Ambassador Yavanovitch and the character assassination of Hunter Biden on trumped up charges. Earlier I said somewhere the Hunter laptop had gone to Ukraine. Apparently it HAD been taken to somewhere in Eastern Europe. Why Lev is a hero is due to his sincere, heartfelt apology to Hunter and Maria, as well as to the nations of the U.S. and Ukraine. God bless Lev, I certainly wish him the best.
bobspringett 30-Oct-24, 04:23	Holidays! I'm outta here for a few weeks! I'll tune in if I get the chance.
apatzer 30-Oct-24, 07:18	bobspringett Hope you have a great holiday!
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