but you CAN'T STAND the owners?
Just to make something clear, it's obvious I can stand the owners, otherwise I wouldn't be here. If I couldn't stand the owners, I wouldn't uprate them either.
Do I sometimes vehemently disagree with the owners? Yes of course.
The sad reality is that it's not that I'm hostile to Matthew, he interprets my opposition to his actions as hostility to his person, which is not the case.
I can honestly say that. If I didn't like Matthew and Mater Dominici I wouldn't have posted at this forum for years, or visited their family.
They are nice people that I like a lot.
I hope Matthew tries to step back and objectively evaluate his motivations.
Looking at this whole affair, for years, really, it gives me the
impression that there is more to the thumb feature than what
members are led to believe. It really couldn't be all that
important. Therefore, it at least gives the IMPRESSION that
some kind of deal is operational, whereby the reputation value
that the forum owner has is somehow a component for some
other thing, such as frequent flyer miles, or a factor in the ad
value compensation, or a status mark on someone's scorecard
whereby various benefits are dispensed, or perhaps even
something as mundane as a private wager with a friend. There
has got to be an underlying reason that these up-thumbs and
down-thumbs are so seriously significant to someone who has
much better things to do than worry about numbers on a graph.
Up-thumbs or down-thumbs are not virtues, vices, sins or works.
They don't count for grace or merit in the eyes of God.
You don't have to confess them to a priest or ask for absolution.
You can't take them to the bank.................. or,,,,,,,,, can you?
Maybe it depends on who "you" are.
I just hope none of Cathinfo's good posters leave here due to these arguments.
Very well said, Matto. It is quite unbecoming of Catholic behavior
to be obsessed with a measly pittance of ridiculous nonsense like
thumbs up or down. WHO CARES?
Is this Facebook or something?
If so, maybe it's time to leave. The stupid thumbs don't even do
what they're supposed to do. Most of the time when someone
likes or dislikes a particular post, it doesn't occur to them to rate
it with a thumb. And not infrequently, the thumb is voted not because
of the content of a particular post but because of the ID of the
member who posted it REGARDLESS of what was said.
So the thumbs are largely a JOKE. They don't WORK. Why USE THEM?