Hello Merlot,
Unfortunately this feud has gone beyond simply member against member. It has gotten to the point where MERB content is being routinely copied and posted on merc without permission. This is a violation of MERB terms to which every person, member or guest, agrees to upon entering this board.
Postings on Merb are the property of Corporation and may not be reproduced or disseminated in any fashion without the expressed written permission of management.
The false accusations posted on merc directed at our members and advertisers cannot go unchallenged or unacknowledged. Do you actually believe that if we impose rules against our members defending themselves, that anything will change over there? Not only will it not change, it will worsen and the personal attacks will increase. For the first 4 months of this year, there was nary a mention of merc on this board. What did that achieve? It achieved nothing. They were being ignored so to get attention, Ziggy came back to MERB under a new handle and began to pick up where he left off. When that did not work, he posted an open challenge to myself regarding an event that is almost a year old and which would otherwise become a distant memory if not for his insistence in keeping it alive. Other members, former members at this point, enjoyed pretending to be honest members here while returning to merc to post insults and attacks directed at this board. These members have been banned, as others have been in the past and anyone who does likewise will be banned in the future. We have no room for hypocrites here.
No attacks have ever originated on MERB, other than one time a few years ago when a member posted personal information composed of newspaper articles concerning Tom, the owner of merc, on this board. That information was swiftly removed and the member suspended. It is interesting to note that that information was posted at the time by none other than Ziggy Montana, who now as Dissection Tool is one of the star members of merc.
Everything else that has been posted here has been in our members' own defense in response to falsehoods and personal attacks posted against this community. We will not stop defending MERB, our members or our advertisers against these false accusations and personal attacks. To do that would spell the end of MERB as a responsible and viable community. Unlike merc which makes claims of supporting free speech while at the same time removing any dissent on that board without notice, we do support our members and their right to defend themselves. We allow our members to openly question moderator integrity on MERB and will enter into a discussion about it. We truly allow freedom of speech here on MERB and will not censor our community's ability to defend itself.
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