the board needs moderation, but that moderation cannot be absolute dictatorship.
Anything less like a dictatorship than B77 is hard to imagine.
halplm, you are not ever going to get what you want. Ever. Until you realize that
you are the source of your own misery, nothing will ever change. Amending this charter is not going to do it. The change has to be in YOU.
You have dragged us all through yet another shitstorm. As soon as you are confronted, as soon as anyone points out that you are out of line, you start whinging and whining that you are "misunderstood" and that people are picking on you and it's not fair and people are jerks and you just want to be nice and if the moderators weren't so icky and the rules are not fair and people just hate you and won't listen and it's always the same.
Yes, indeed:
it is always the same because YOU are always the same.
This weekend I will be fortunate enough to spend three days with 3 other B77ers. You may be sure that your name will pop up. Yes, it will, there is no use pretending otherwise.
"Oh, he's probably a nice guy in person," I might say. "After all, TheMary says so and she's a great kid and so he probably is pretty nice in person."
But probably, to be perfectly honest, I am likely to say, "I'm sick of the place and his crap and after this m00t I probably won't be at B77 much any more."
I am not under any illusions that my presence or non-presence is going to be the downfall of B77. And I'm not leaving in a snit. Just resigned to the inevitable.