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Attn: Scary email response

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Isabella

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Sorry people, first thing this morning I received a very angry hostile email from someone called Cowboy blaming BF for ruining his life, I have no idea why he would email us all with it but I responded saying I feel sympathetic but I don't feel it is all the fault of BF.

Fast forward a few hours and I had 21 posts in my inbox many of which thought it was directed at them.

Sorry about that, it was directed at the scary email I received and I had actually hoped that my response would calm a storm, rather than start one. Again Sorry about that.

Bels
 
Whew! Thanks for clarifying that, Bels. I just opened my email and got "your" PM, accidentally to me, I now realize. My response was "Huh?" :?: Then, seeing you were online, looked for something from you explaining what happened. 8-)
 
Whew, that was scary.....I can't believe it, I was starting to think I was crazy and was the only person who received this angry email from this fellow....someone even wrote me a very bitter response telling me Poly was a waste of time and all single women were "fakes and psychos" :( :shock:

I was only trying to tell this bloke to stop playing the blame game and you would have thought WW3 had started! :P
 
No worries, I got the message, and figured you'd just typed in the wrong addresses since you'd sent it to Nathan specifically (who you'd never direct those comments to unless you were reporting something!) and everybody else.

Are you able to delete it from your outbox so it doesn't go to anybody who hasn't read it yet? Or can a moderator do that?
 
Well I tried that but it did not work, perhaps because I have been out so long (teach me to leave my precious internet to do unnecessary things like cook and clean! ;) ).

Funny thing I noticed though loads....and I mean loads of names I have never seen before responded to my email.
It was like an unveiling of all these hidden members who never post....only about four regular posters contacted me.

Weird.....

B
:mrgreen:
 
I saw the whole thing and I knew that you were just trying to talk to the guy. I was at work, trying to read it on my phone. I thought the guy was pretty angry and I wonder what "the rest of the story" is. But by the time I got home, most of it was deleted. So I was left to wonder.

SweetLissa
 
Oh...there you go again Bells...creating all kinds of hate and discontent... ;) :D
 
Such a trouble-maker. :D

Chris
 
It does bother me ( maybe more than it should, or not) that in this day and time fewer and fewer people are willing to accept responsibility for their actions. Nothing " just happens" it is always a result of a persons actions or lack of . Just my thoughts!
 
Jack P. said:
It does bother me ( maybe more than it should, or not) that in this day and time fewer and fewer people are willing to accept responsibility for their actions. Nothing " just happens" it is always a result of a persons actions or lack of . Just my thoughts!
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True, however perhaps I (and many of the rest of us) have the privilege of experience? I have been on the net a long time, I have seen teenage boys running web forums receive threatening phone calls at home because grown men did not like the fact that this kid could ban them from forums.Also, I have the life experience of being female where you have to be a little more careful. I have learnt to be fairly cautious and that is why despite being fairly open with my lifestyle I would not want to be so open that 'Scary man from the internet' can track me down to where I live or phone me at home.

We have to protect ourselves and our families and being cautious online is a part of that. Sadly it seemed this man had signed up on here with the same username he uses personally with people he would have rather not known about his Polygynous beliefs and they (as many cautious people might) just googled his name.

It's that easy. Is it sad, yes, is it Biblical Families fault?

No.
 
Oy Vey! Here's what happened, folks.

We THOUGHT we had it blocked so folks couldn't send out these types of pms to everyone. Guess not.

Whoever the dude is, he has a problem. Had only posted a few times way back when, and NEVER in the private forums -- only out in areas that we clearly state are public.

I saw it first thing in the morning and told Nathan.

He blocked or removed the account and the original angry PMs.

Did NOT remove Bels response under the theory that it was calm, sensible, helpful, and might be appropriate to anyone who had already seen the other and was bothered thereby. (Kudos, Bels).

Unintended consequence: It was the only thing some folks saw, and they then bugged Bels. I'm so sorry, Bels! :cry:

Nathan then studies the system further, and thinks, THINKS he has got it prohibited from broadcasting these sorta PMs to everyone from here on. This is NOT at all normal -- only the third time that I know of, and all very recent. Hmmm.

Anyway, we do apologize and are doing our best to prohibit this sorta mess from recurring.
 
No worries Cecil, I can only hope that maybe some lurkers who may have been shocked into response by my unintended PM may remember what a great resource BF is and be more active again.

B
:D
 
Oh, yeah.
 
Guess I should of found this first, pls disregard the pm I sent you, I was wondering ify ou had pm me on accident.

Have a good night!
C :mrgreen:
 
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