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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #135 on: January 10, 2009, 06:36:46 PM »
Do people get good support there yet?

Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #136 on: January 10, 2009, 06:37:50 PM »
So you don't like AP/Wp.

ZOMG LETS FLAME THE MEMBERS THERE NOW!
Did Alex offer to make you a moderator or something?

No. I'm taking flaming of the "majority of members there suck" because that is biased.
Well most of them would not get along here, lets face it. There are some good members there.

Actually I wouldn't say "most" whine.

There are a few whiners, I don't tend to read their posts anyway. The majority of the posts I read are fine. How do you define a whiner? Moaning about life? Well, it is a support site.
Its the defeatist attitudes that most of the members have - and god forbid if anyone actually gave some honest advice (i.e. moan less, get out more)

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #137 on: January 10, 2009, 06:38:49 PM »
Do people get good support there yet?

Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.

More in the parents section than others most of the other stuff is just back patting
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.'
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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #138 on: January 10, 2009, 06:39:15 PM »
So you don't like AP/Wp.

ZOMG LETS FLAME THE MEMBERS THERE NOW!
Did Alex offer to make you a moderator or something?

No. I'm taking flaming of the "majority of members there suck" because that is biased.
Well most of them would not get along here, lets face it. There are some good members there.

Actually I wouldn't say "most" whine.

There are a few whiners, I don't tend to read their posts anyway. The majority of the posts I read are fine. How do you define a whiner? Moaning about life? Well, it is a support site.
Its the defeatist attitudes that most of the members have - and god forbid if anyone actually gave some honest advice (i.e. moan less, get out more)

Getting out more doesn't always solve the problems. I went out last night two two places, and found it really hard to relate to people and came home in a rather defeated mood.

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #139 on: January 10, 2009, 06:39:51 PM »
Do people get good support there yet?

Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.
Yeah they do rise splendidly to help - the only problem its nearly always the wrong sort of help. All they do is enable people to continue the pity party.

For example did you see that thread where that poor girl was getting shredded for putting up notice of a study she was doing (as approved by Alex)?

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #140 on: January 10, 2009, 06:40:06 PM »
Do people get good support there yet?

Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.

More in the parents section than others most of the other stuff is just back patting

Yeah well that probably doesn't help in the long run, sucking up isn't cool, but sometimes its what people need :o

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #141 on: January 10, 2009, 06:41:05 PM »
Do people get good support there yet?

Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.
Yeah they do rise splendidly to help - the only problem its nearly always the wrong sort of help. All they do is enable people to continue the pity party.

For example did you see that thread where that poor girl was getting shredded for putting up notice of a study she was doing (as approved by Alex)?

No, I didn't. Do you have a link?

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #142 on: January 10, 2009, 06:42:08 PM »
Do people get good support there yet?

Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.

More in the parents section than others most of the other stuff is just back patting


Yeah well that probably doesn't help in the long run, sucking up isn't cool, but sometimes its what people need :o


And you have to admit people here can be brutally honest
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #143 on: January 10, 2009, 06:42:25 PM »
So you don't like AP/Wp.

ZOMG LETS FLAME THE MEMBERS THERE NOW!
Did Alex offer to make you a moderator or something?

No. I'm taking flaming of the "majority of members there suck" because that is biased.
Well most of them would not get along here, lets face it. There are some good members there.

Actually I wouldn't say "most" whine.

There are a few whiners, I don't tend to read their posts anyway. The majority of the posts I read are fine. How do you define a whiner? Moaning about life? Well, it is a support site.
Its the defeatist attitudes that most of the members have - and god forbid if anyone actually gave some honest advice (i.e. moan less, get out more)

Getting out more doesn't always solve the problems. I went out last night two two places, and found it really hard to relate to people and came home in a rather defeated mood.
No - but in half the cases they probably just need a good kick up the backside. Going out in itself though is not enough, you need to go somewhere you want to go (even if there were few people there). Going out for its own sake rarely works.

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #144 on: January 10, 2009, 06:43:21 PM »
Do people get good support there yet?

Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.
Yeah they do rise splendidly to help - the only problem its nearly always the wrong sort of help. All they do is enable people to continue the pity party.

For example did you see that thread where that poor girl was getting shredded for putting up notice of a study she was doing (as approved by Alex)?

No, I didn't. Do you have a link?
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt87727.html

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #145 on: January 10, 2009, 06:43:29 PM »
Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.
Yeah they do rise splendidly to help - the only problem its nearly always the wrong sort of help. All they do is enable people to continue the pity party.

For example did you see that thread where that poor girl was getting shredded for putting up notice of a study she was doing (as approved by Alex)?

I haven't been back there for a long time.

I'm interested in whether and how the members manage to transcend the poor leadership, though.
You'll never self-actualize the subconscious canopy of stardust with that attitude.

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #146 on: January 10, 2009, 06:45:53 PM »
Yeah, I think many members rise to the occasion to help.
Yeah they do rise splendidly to help - the only problem its nearly always the wrong sort of help. All they do is enable people to continue the pity party.

For example did you see that thread where that poor girl was getting shredded for putting up notice of a study she was doing (as approved by Alex)?

I haven't been back there for a long time.

I'm interested in whether and how the members manage to transcend the poor leadership, though.
There are a few good members there, but quite a lot are a bit lame. Alex has not spotted my latest sockpuppet yet. Might be because he is being polite :P

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #147 on: January 10, 2009, 06:46:12 PM »
No - but in half the cases they probably just need a good kick up the backside.

LOL  :plus:
Sort of thing my mother says about people.

I wouldn't say going out helps, but getting active does. Go for a walk, eat well, you will be proud of yourself.

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #148 on: January 10, 2009, 07:58:57 PM »
I can understand his point of view. I doubt the copyright infringement claim would hold.


Then can you tell us then? I still don't understand what the big deal is having something copied from your blog and posted on WP.

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Re: Alex Plank is getting sued...
« Reply #149 on: January 10, 2009, 08:01:06 PM »
He's been very paranoid in the past about people quoting his words, because he doesn't want to be caught in a lie. He freely deletes his own posts and those of others he thinks will cause him trouble.

A good way to take him down, when somebody eventually does, will be to go around to all the people who've been slighted by him, gather any chat logs and written records they have, cross reference it all, and publicize it. If Alex hasn't changed from the way he used to be, that will reveal glaring inconsistences, evasions, and outright lies all over the place.


So that's his point of view? That answers my question.