Quote Originally Posted by prophetic_joe View Post
You show me once is his first post of the thread where he took sides in this issue or pointed fingers at anyone besides making a broad statement that any reasonable person would recognise to include everyone involved in this situation and I'll agree with this statement. Trouble is Bill that you can't, so I fail to see how this was a direct slap in any particular face. It seemed more to me to be a guy seeing his buddy's fighting about something stupid and tried to do something about it.



And I did not say that you've been condesending to me on other occasions I said you have been condesending on other occasions. It's just not a trait I admire, I think there are much better ways to get a point across.

And as far as the statement of you being just as mean I guess that's just a matter of opinion. The truth is I expected all of you to handle situations like this in a much more mature fashion and have since been disappointed. If having that opinion makes you lose respect for me or makes anyone else lose respect for me so be it that just goes to show we weren't that good of friends to begin with. I just thought you and George were better than all of this.
Well I don't agree with your opinion at all and in my opinion, I don't think you're going to find many who will agree with you on that one.

You and loudpipe may think the argument is "about something stupid" but I think you'd be hard pressed to find many members here to conclude it's just some minor, little insignificant "stupid" issue. Once again, the root cause of the problem here is Barry and his vulgar, nasty, hate-filled, offensive, rude, over the top comments he posts on a regular basis in the political forum. You said this:
Barry has come off as a real asshole in almost all of the political posts he has made and has actually only made me, who was probably going to vote democrat think maybe of doing otherwise. He's come off as just as hateful and ignorant as the republicans he claims are stupid fucktards.
which I agree with wholeheartedly!

Now since this community has had this serious problem for quite some time, I finally had enough and I'll be the first to admit, I lost my cool because I finally had seen enough of this behavior which has been going on pretty much ever since he got here. Some of us had comminicated behind the scenes and Sid offered to impress upon Barry that he should "tone it down" and he didn't heed those warnings. Hex asked Barry to "tone it down" and once again, he ignored that request. Not only did he ignore those requests, he brought it up a notch with his "die" kitten avatar. Several members asked Hex to start a ban poll which you'd think might make him realize that he should straighten up but no, if anything he got even worse.

So here we are, a major dust up and his behavior has barely changed. I dunno Nate, do you have any suggestions because in my opinion, Barry's behavior and attitude is still a major area of concern on this board.

Again, if you've got some ideas, I'm all ears.