I really don't think most people use that curse button much - maybe here and there if they disagree strongly with something someone says.  I think the curse button serves as a tool for a few people who are rather frustrated and don't know how else to express themselves. They've usually decided they don't like you, or you annoy them in some way.  Once in awhile you'll get someone who thinks you've stepped on their toes, or you don't fit in to their agenda or what have you, and they decide they want you out of their territory so to speak.  These people will embark on a dedicated campaign to get rid of you.  Problem is, they can't hit your curse button more than once in a 24-hour period so they enlist a couple of their followers to help them get the count up faster.  These are the type of people who can't think for themselves but they DO like the idea that they're serving a righteous cause, so they're quite serious about they're involvement.  They also serve to bolster the person in question's sense of validation.

The feature is intentionally anonymous and certainly was never intended to be a tool to chase anyone off the forum.   Since visitors wouldn't have any way of knowing who's using the feature, they also couldn't possibly be privy to the user's intent unless s/he chose to reveal it, nor could it be known if members using it similarly are even aware of each other, and I surely don't have any knowlege of members using the feature to carry out a personal agenda or employing minions in the process.  And the heart of the matter is that everyone is welcome to post here.

If a visitor is being or has been harassed on the forum through IMs or posts, then I certainly want to be contacted about it, and to that I'll add the use of information, opinions, or images posted here to harass a member off the board, and if a member is undeniably linked to those behaviors I wouldn't hesitate to kick them off.

Do you realize these people actually went to the trouble of digging up an old post of mine so they could hit that button?  Kind of pitiful how much time some people have on their hands.

As MB pointed out, we've made older posts available on the board so that others could read them at their leisure, and I frequently receive questions about them.

Bruno should have been kicked just for wearing that coat!
that  would have scared me more that the dead sherriff!

Hee hee!

Please tell me that wasn't rabbit fur.


~bunny lovin' Midnite

Oops there i go again mentioning her name. I can be so evil.    

Somebody lash that man to the bar.

Okay, will stop now.

Of course, I am sure there are people here who would lash out in protest. 

I'm laughing so hard that I hope I won't get whiplash.

Ben!!!!!  It's great to see you!

I have a daughter that's Amy's age and you're right-- if she'd been anywhere near that cottage recently you can bet the scissors would be impossible to find.

GO Anubis!  It's your birthday...
We're gonna party like it's your birthday,
We gonna sip Bacardi like it's your birthday......





(I hope you like rap. )

And how about Sheriff Paterson?  Forgive me...I don't remember his name.

No problem, it was Sheriff Davenport.  So if you were on first name terms with him, would you have called him Sheriff Sheriff?

 

There's his grave stone and then here comes his hand and then his whole body.  How many inch's of dirt would you say he was buryed in....about a 1/2 an inch?  At least they could have had a wooden box lid on top of him, then he could have come out better that way.

Wow, I planted a small tree yesterday and am sure I dug a deeper hole for it.