Re: Some great Vegas Views...

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:51:20 -0500, Walt <none@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <MPG.1d689a428fbf545598bb14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chuck.K
><noway@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In article <130820052040117661%none@xxxxxxxxx>, none@xxxxxxxxx
>> says...
>> > I'm not sure what you're talking about. I haven't said anything about
>> > Berman in this thread.
>> >
>> > --- Walt
>>
>>
>> Aren't you GLAD that you support strebel in his postings to avlv?
>>
>> Chuck
>
>If you believe that, then you misinterpret my intention here. Or maybe
>I haven't spelled it out clearly enough.
>
>To me it's not about supporting this person or that person. Nor do I
>support incorrect postings. I've taken Don to task on occasion for his
>misstatements, as have others. We laugh about them, we post
>corrections, but we know when to lay off, when enough is enough. Most
>people here recognize a boundary of human decency and are careful not
>to cross it.
>
>With you there seems to be no such boundary here. You keep piling on
>long after your point has been taken. It makes you look like a crazy
>person, whether you are or not. Newbies learn two things from your
>Strevel postings: Strevel makes mistakes, but Chuck sounds like a real
>nut job.
>
>On the other hand, we have your legitimate postings, some of which I
>myself was quick to praise recently, with the hope that they would
>continue and proliferate. And I just read a remarkable testimonial on
>your behalf from Scott&Diane, who couldn't say enough about your
>hospitality and your knowledge of Vegas.
>
>So who are we to believe is the real Chuck? Is it Scott&Diane's
>helpful host who shares their "Midwestern values"? Or is it the
>pitiable Gollum-like creature who inhabits AVLV?
>
>Usenet is not a fantasy world divorced from reality. It's not a video
>game like "Grand Theft Auto" where bad actions have no real-life
>consequences. These messages you're reading on your monitor don't come
>from "Sims." They're from real people down the street, across town,
>around the world. And every message you post says something about you,
>for good or ill. On Usenet, you are what you write.
>
>You may not care about any of this. It may even seem like a joke to
>you, like part of the game. But know that I care about it, and that
>evidently I still have a thread of compassion left for you, or else I
>wouldn't have spent hours on these posts thinking of the right words to
>express my thoughts.
>
>Good luck to you, and I'll be rooting for the "good" Chuck.
>
> --- Walt


You're a nice person, Walt, and I agree with most what you've written
here. Your approach has been tried many times before and it hasn't
worked yet and probably never will. I killfile or not killfile people
based on annoyance level (Sr.) or entertainment value (BM was one of
the first I had to read every post of, not being able to believe what
I read). I never killfiled Chuck, not because I like his vitriolic
replies to Don or David which are rather repetetive and not all that
original (even though Don certainly earns them again and again), but
because I - like you - really value his all too infrequent posts on
things which might interest the regular avlv subscriber, about
restaurants, casino and the like. Make your decision on killfiling
based on that, don't try to change him - it will probably only earn
you a place on his blacklist (as witnessed in some of the replies you
got earlier from him, completely ignoring the fact that some of your
posts in the past months were among the best I've read this year on
avlv) .

Thomas W.

- returning to Las Vegas this december ! -
.

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