You on the other hand only seem to post when you are pissed off about something and start with attacking and sarcastic remarks like " I am really going to lose my shit", " who pissed in your cornflakes" and want to educate everybody. It is no wonder that people may not agree with you, they have probably lost sight of what you are trying to say by the way you are saying it.
While this may be true, the most irritating statement she has made is purporting to speak for multitudes of SPs (300 or more) as though she was their elected union representative. I don't doubt her views are shared by some and not by others, and some who share her views are nevertheless not inhibited from posting and let the allegedly offensive or crude or distasteful comments slide.
The truth is that there is no union rep for SPs nor is there one for clients. As CR mentioned there are Moderators whose job it is to address the standards of postings and to guide discussions, if they are believed to be getting off topic or becoming disrespectful or out of line. Anyone who passes judgments on what is or is not suitable posting content on MERB is in effect acting as a private Moderator, and usurping the actual Moderator's designated functions, which is disrespectful to the official Mods if not outright crapping on them.
I have been on MERB since 2003 when it was started (I had a prior EagerBeaver account that had to be deleted in July 2003 due to an early software glitch), and in that time I can count on one hand the occasions I asked the Mods to intervene in a thread that had gotten out of hand. On almost all of those occasions, the Mods acted and locked the threads. The most recent one I can think of was last year when someone under a fake handle started a shillfest for one agency. Although I was criticized for intervening in the thread and exposing the thread starter as a multi-handled impostor (which was actually done by other MERB members before me), the Mods agreed and shut his stupid shillfest down.
The race and gender threads are very thorny topics, as are the STD threads. In around 2004-2006 or so the STD threads were being used to impugn specific SPs, and the Mods started casting a very jaundiced eye upon them. They usually were shut down as containing utter nonsense and junk science by individuals who do not even have college degrees let alone an M.D. or doctorate in the sciences. Race and gender threads and political threads remain thorny dilemmas that are the bane of the Moderators' existence. The Trumped threads were allowed to live on beyond their useful shelf lives, but finally the Mods shut down both, much to the consternation of the antagonists therein (of which I was an infrequent contributor, as politics do not excite me). It was probably causing too many complaints and headaches so who can blame them. It is not their job to eat popcorn after all.
So in my eyes, all points of view should be respected and the Mods should be allowed to do their job which they have mostly done pretty well, since the beginning of the board and until now.
BTW, the last thread I recall on race and an accusation of racism was against the agency which just won agency of the year for 2016. The thread was shut down as unsubstantiated.
