Ok calm down, calm down...
We banned intimidation *again* - if you review this thread, the baited is pretty obvious. We were going to let him run on this 3rd account, but he still didn't change. Maybe next account. Bai He is un-banned now, too.
As for my comment to Chris_McKinley, I'm sorry that you and Rick James took such offense to it. It wasn't meant to be insulting or disrespectful; it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, which is why I added the :p symbol. Now I realize I should have used the ;) symbol to better indicate that I wasn't being serious. It was more a comment on your quote Chris...
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Nowadays, the trolls outnumber the posters here, and what's left is mostly absolute noobs who eventually move on when they realize that very little real information is exchanged here.
There's an intrinsic logic flaw with posting that, since by the very act of posting it, you are here, and I'm assuming by your attidude and your successive posts, that you do not consider yourself as part of that crowd. So it became sort of self-incriminating, which is, I assume, not what you intended. FWIW, I've made plenty of similar errors, but it's a forum, it's sort of the nature of the beast. We're all bad writers here and if we're not, we're spending too much time here.
As for the disparaing comments about me personally, I appreciate your criticisms and your attention. Really, with the incredible diversity of CMA, it's an honor to be thought of at all. I AM a complete joke in the martial arts world and intend to remain so as long as I can keep the audience laughing. Seriously, laughter is the best medicine. If I could just develop the contagious laugh, that would be the best virus ever. I like to think of myself as sort of a cosmic joke, but really I'm just a bad pun. :p oops, I mean ;)
You know, something Dave Cater (of all people!!) taught me about forums. We were once discussing web forums a few years back and he said he went to one once and typed "Dave Cater is an *******" just for fun. He thought it was hilarious how many people agreed. To this day, I respect that.
As for Empty Flower being better, they probably are, but it's sort of silly to come over here and say so. Forums are voluntary communties - if you want to participate, participate. If not, go somewhere else. It's sort of like the noobs comment, you're not going to make things better in a community by saying "oh that other community is better". You're going to make the community better by contributing more to it. Now of course, I'd love it if the entire CMA world was here, but that's not going to happen. As long as your contributing somewhere, that's fine. Even trolling contributes in its own weird way, sort of like lessons in bad examples, but things do get out of hand now and again, so we do have to ban members. I do admire the style of the Empty Flower website - I think they do a fabulous job for the MA world. Also I would love to read up on these threads on me, just because it tickles my ego just like it did Cater's. If anyone can forward me the threads, I'd love it.
still seeking EF bashing threads...
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a /worship/ or a /bow/ icon
I'm not sure what you mean. But thanks for the props. Always leave 'em laughing. :D