http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1638
Basement Bob
Steve Davy - 2014/11/19 19:07:34 UTC
You got something that you want to say to me then you do it here in your basement, Bob.
Bob Kuczewski - 2014/11/19 19:22:40 UTC
Hello Nobody,
You can call him Steve now. You and everyone else knows he's Steve.
Tad has been uncharacteristically fair to me in his recent coverage of the Torrey situation.
I've always been totally fair to you, Bob. You just don't like it most of the time when it covers most of your actions.
I have thanked him privately and publicly.
You thanked me a lot better privately than you did publicly.
A byproduct of that discussion was the topic of your "confinement"...
Why is "confinement" inside quotation marks?
...to the "Free Speech Zone"...
I can understand why "Free Speech Zone" is in quotation marks.
...on the US Hawks forum. Here's a quote from Tad:
Also...
You have a heavily restricted "Nobody" on your forum who you know was the same "Nobody" from Kite Strings. At 2012/12/20 05:59:56 UTC upon his request I switched "Nobody" to "Steve Davy". And on The Davis Show "Ridgerodent" publicly identified himself as "Steve Davy" - USHGA 88875. And even he's publicly in your corner on this one on one or two other forums.
Since I cannot post to any portion of Tad's site...
1. You could post to all of them before you violated the crap out of the extremely liberal rules once too often.
2. By several definitions it's more Zack's site than it is Tad's.
I chose to reply to him via email:
Hello Tad,
I won't reinstate Nobody's ability to post to the general forum without a phone conversation. He remains free to post in the "Free Speech Zone" as I've said before.
I have posted a link to your web site with a warning that I do not recommend it for anyone under 18 ... which I do not.
1. Fine, Bob. I don't recommend your site for anybody of any age who wants competent information about aviation.
2. My, what a very nice sharply defined number that is, Bob. Reminds me of Donnell Hewett's magic 1.0 G weak link.
3. So why that precise number, Bob? Is that something you derived using your Navier-Stokes equations? Maybe you could walk some of us less gifted folk through your processes. Or is that something you just went with 'cause somebody pulled it out of his ass, declared it a standard, and got a bunch of other religious fanatics to go along with it - totally unencumbered by any thought processes and/or regard for reality?
I'm sure those aren't the answers you want, so please feel free to go back to your regular name calling if you like.
Like what? "Unrepentant child molester" ad nauseam?
That's what I expect even though I would advise a more friendly position.
Of course you would. You're at your most dangerous when you're pretending to be friendly.
I have said many times that we share many similar goals, but I believe that for you, any deviation from exactly what you want is grounds for warfare.
Any deviation from reality in aviation is deadly. And you assholes are all over the fuckin' map.
That's where we've been, and that's where I expect we'll stay until we're both in the ground.
I was kinda hoping to end up as vulture food - assuming I've got no shot at immortality.
Thanks again for doing what is right.
Sincerely,
Bob Kuczewski
I followed that with a message to the registered email address of "Nobody" and a CC to Tad:
Hello Steve (cc Tad),
I've been having a conversation with Tad regarding your reinstatement to the general US Hawks forum.
As you may remember, I took the position that people should not be allowed to attack others on our forum without people knowing who they actually are ... in real life.
Unless they're attacking Tad. Then they have a free pass.
That's why I restricted your posting to the "Free Speech Zone" on our forum.
That's not all you restricted, Bob. He has way better access to your site logged out and surfing as Joe Blow than he does logged in. That's fuckin' ridiculous.
I've seen too many forums where "puppet" users are created to make it appear that there are lots of people with a particular view, when the reality was that they were just a bunch of aliases for one person.
And you bloody well know that that was not the case with Nobody / Steve. And there was ZERO indication that anything like that was going on when you banished him or at any other time before or after.
In fact, I was personally told this by someone doing that exact thing on the hanggliding.org forum. I am hoping to do something better on the US Hawks forum.
Your Board of Directors on that wavelength as well?
So I've arrived at my own policy to avoid that situation. My policy is that I want to have a reasonable certainty of the identity of each person who is engaging in any significant personal attacks against others.
You already have that in spades.
I currently do that with at least one phone call (possibly more).
I currently do that by checking out the Username and E-mail address. I've never had much trouble identifying real people and screening out spammers.
It's not a perfect system, but I think it's better than what we see on most of the other national forums.
How many other national - or international - hang glider forums worth mentioning are there? It doesn't take all that many clicks to check and see if anything's going on.
I stand behind giving people a public voice, but only if they're willing to stand behind it as well.
Then put it in your rules and don't enforce it selectively.
I welcome the chance to discuss this with you, and you are welcome to call me any time at 858-204-7499.
For verification purposes only. FINE. But, Steve, don't drop your guard and make the mistakes I did.
Thanks for signing up with the US Hawks.
Sincerely,
Bob Kuczewski
But then I went back and read just one of Nobody's recent posts directed at Bill Cummings:
"You've got s*** for brains, Bill. Rot in Hell pigf*****."
- Nobody, February 22, 2014
Let's look at it IN CONTEXT:
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1514
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There's no possible way that a statement like that can be construed to be helpful to the sport of hang gliding...
Beats the fuck out of the crap you and Bill were talking...
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1563
Platform Launching (PL) Draft suggestions needed
...about weak links and stalls.
...or to the advancement of discussions here on the US Hawks.
The same way statements about evolution and geology in no way can be construed to be helpful to the religion of Christianity or to the advancement of discussions at Liberty University.
I thought that was unduly harsh. Here's what I wrote at the time:
Tad Eareckson - 2014/02/25 04:40:06 UTC
I don't hate him THAT much.
So I wrote a second message to Steve and Tad:
Steve and Tad,
Let me apologize that my memory appears to be failing me.
Really? It's been good enough for you to violate USHGA's hook-in check requirement...
...at every site I've ever seen you fly for as long as I've known you.
I generally like to think that most people are reasonable and rational individuals who really want to come to resolutions about issues.
1. Yeah, I used to think that as well. Then I found out the hard way what hang gliding people are REALLY like and all the shit that's been going on since about a half an hour after its inception.
2. What's a resolution? I maintain that two plus two equals four, Bill maintains its eight, Sam sticks to his guns at eleven, so we agree on about 7.67? Or, if Sam's the Committee Chairman, 43?
But when I looked up "Nobody"s recent posts, I found this:
"You've got s*** for brains, Bill. Rot in Hell pigf*****."
- Nobody, February 22, 2014
It's hard for me to imagine the kind of human being who would write something like that on a public forum to someone as experienced and thoughtful as Bill Cummings.
The kind of human being who's tired of seeing bullshit like:
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and:
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So while my offer to reinstate "Nobody" based on a telephone discussion stands, I have to say that it will be a long conversation (maybe many conversations) and may not conclude with a restoration of posting rights.
Fuck you then, Bob.
- You locked him down because he violated a "rule" you made up for and selectively enforced on him.
- The rule was that he could attack whomever he felt like any way he felt like except that asterisks would be active.
- He's identified himself beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt.
- Then your Alzheimer's winds back a bit and you just happen to suddenly remember that exchange.
- So now you tailor a new special rule for him. He's gotta suck your dick for a few extended sessions "for about a month" at the "end" of which The Great Defender of Individual Freedoms and Free Speech may or may not condescend to bestow on him the coveted rank of Two Cuts South of Sam Kellner.
You twisted goddam sonuvabitch. I can't tell you how proud of myself I am that I resisted the powerful human urge to pick up the phone and start mending fences.
As it stands (and evidenced above), Nobody remains free to post in the "Free Speech Zone" even to this day.
HALLELUJAH!
Despite Tad's complaints, that's far more of a voice than Tad has given to myself on his forum.
Bull fucking shit.
- There is NOBODY who would've tolerated one percent of the crap I allowed you to spew at me when you were on - until a bit over a week shy of five months after you banned me.
- I myself have put up hundreds of totally in context quotes from you on Kite Strings. How many quotes from me have you put up in the past three years?
So Tad, if you want to argue for Nobody to post MORE on our forum...
1. "OUR" forum? Who's "US"? Who has any control over what happens there besides you?
2. I don't. Posting on "OUR" forum is a total life-sucking waste of time and exercise in terminal frustration. I want him to post more on Kite Strings and continue reading and proofreading my posts and finding all my idiot typos and much worse mistakes so's I can fix them before too many other people see them.
3. He can post on "OUR" forum all he wants to down in "OUR" Basement. He obviously doesn't want to. He posts there he boosts your ratings. He posts here he boosts Kite Strings ratings. He posts on The Davis Show and he demolishes that asshole and his sycophants.
...then maybe you should FIRST allow me and others the same posting rights on your forum that he ALREADY HAS on ours.
1. Lemme fix that for ya...
...then maybe you should FIRST allow me and others the same posting rights on your forum that he ALREADY HAS on mine.
Here Zack's ranking officer, I'm an Administrator, Steve's a Moderator, Zack and Steve both have my password, and I've offered my other participants control positions. So I get to do the first person plural thing.
2. What others? I banned...
- Sam 'cause that astoundingly stupid douchebag never had any business being on in the first place and I only made the mistake of treating him as something approaching human out of deference to you.
- your buddy OP 'cause he's a total lying cowardly piece of shit who came here under false pretenses with the sole intent of being banned.
Nobody else who's identifiable as an actual non spammer individual has ever been denied immediate activation and full posting privileges.
3. No. I don't fuck around with Basement restrictions. You're either full in or full out.
Zack C - 2010/11/23 05:23:34 UTC
This is a forum ruled by science, truth, facts, reason, and logic. Anyone with a respect for these principles and a willingness to learn and engage in rational discussion is welcome to participate.
The forum is still in its infancy, so we don't have much in the way of structure or posting rules. Until we're large enough to have a need for more, all topics will be under a single forum. As for rules, just keep it civil, stay on topic, keep topics in line with the forum purpose, and don't lie or misrepresent others' statements.
You don't qualify and just massively reassured me that you never will. You're going for quantity so you want people to play nicely with the other children, we're going for quality and if Sunday school gets in the way of science, truth, facts, reason, logic, rational discussion you're out. That'll be the case whether our participants count is five hundred, fifty, five, two (which is how it started out (four years ago come Saturday) and remained for two months plus eight days), one, or zero.
So that's where we stand.
Regardless of where the goalposts have been moved to.
Nobody (Steve?) already has far more rights to post on this forum than Tad has given to myself and many others on his forum.
Bullshit. See above. Granted, there's no way in hell dedicated pin benders and Rooney Linkers will ever get on here but they don't wanna be here any more than I want them here.
Indeed, the fact that Nobody was able to create this topic ("Basement Bob") just minutes ago (check the dates) is pretty clear proof that we are far more tolerant of free speech here on the US Hawks than Tad is on his forum.
1. Yeah? Try saying shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits on The Bob Show and see what happens.
2. Super, Bob! Show me where Kite Strings ever advertised itself as a free speech free-for-all zone. It's a science classroom. Your IQ must be this high to get through the door. I send all the dregs to The Bob Show where they can play nicely together and respect each others opinions.
I find it hard for him to be complaining.
Who's complaining?
Steve and Tad, I appreciate that you have stood up for fairness in the Torrey matter. I have similarly defended Tad in the past...
Not really.
...and I plan to do so in the future for both of you if I see that you are being treated unfairly.
Aren't you gonna hafta do some interesting gymnastics when you're also the one dishing out the unfair treatment?
I doubt we'll get to a better arrangement than that, so let's please leave it at that.
Don't count on it.
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1638
Basement Bob
Steve Davy - 2014/11/19 22:49:49 UTC
Tad has always been fair to you, Bob. You're just too twisted to realize that.
1. Wow! That's exactly the same adjective I used before reading this post! Great minds...
2. He knows I've always been fair to him. That's what's really getting to him.