Lifetime ban on AGD

[adamghost]

What is AGD up these days? Hasn't posted on BBB either. Anyone in touch with him? I gotta figure the ban was hard on him.

I talked to him online a few days ago.  Seems fine and very unconcerned about being banned from the board.

[Lee Marshall]

Beckgtr09/jeffcdo...It certainly can change your online 'personality'.  It can also reach a heightened stage of aggressiveness here.  And the needless broadstroke 'swipes' traded here are all too often off-putting.  But...heh!!!  Be loyal to your position and suffer the fools as best you can.  They will always 'vote' too.

[Emily]

It bums me out that there are potential posters who are scared away by the tone. I've had a few people take some pretty rough swipes at me, and I'm sure there a more who aren't pleased by my posts, but this is a very varied place and you're bound to find common ground with some people and there are going to be some people who are interested in what you have to say.
I don't think there are any regular posters I wouldn't miss if they were to leave. It's like a neighborhood: you have the neighbors you're actually friends with. You have the neighbor with that awful dog. You have the cat lady and the grouchy old guy telling you to get off his lawn. The mysterious hermit. The kids running around. The bully. The two feuding families. It's all part of the fabric and no one is going to be liked by everyone, but everyone is liked by someone.
It's like Winesburg, Ohio.

Sorry for the above stereotypes.

[JK]

no one is going to be liked by everyone, but everyone is liked by someone.

How very true.

My very first post got dissed big-time (by an occasional poster I now greatly admire). I suppose the thing is to grit one's teeth and hang on in there. If people shout... well, it's only the internet. Anyway, sticks and stones and all that...

I like your stereotypes! Thankfully, I don't have a lawn (or an awful dog).  

[drbeachboy]

I don't think there are any regular posters I wouldn't miss if they were to leave.

I happen to like most of the members in here, even some with whom I disagree with at times. This is a community, an online one, but it mirrors most regular communities even down to how we like who is in charge of running them.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

My very first post got dissed big-time (by an occasional poster I now greatly admire). I suppose the thing is to grit one's teeth and hang on in there. If people shout... well, it's only the internet. Anyway, sticks and stones and all that...

In the early 1990s, I would trade messages with Jacksonville FL natives on a local BBS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

The ugly tone existed then as well.  There's something about electronic communication, whether they be message boards messages, texts, or anything related, that triggers something in some minds, that makes people believe they can act aggressively and inappropriately without repercussion.

[China Pig]

Imagine my surprise when turning on the TV this evening to see AGD is on the gameshow "The Chase"! Go AGD!!!

[KDS]

Imagine my surprise when turning on the TV this evening to see AGD is on the gameshow "The Chase"! Go AGD!!!

What???

Why wouldn't he have posted that.........oh wait.........................

[Emily]

Imagine my surprise when turning on the TV this evening to see AGD is on the gameshow "The Chase"! Go AGD!!!

Wait, really?

[Douchepool]

He moved on with life nicely. I'd say that's all that needs to be said!

[Mendota Heights]

Watch it here: http://www.watchallchannels.com/itv-plus-1/

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

"Sorry, this channel is not available in your region yet."   

[Shady]

Was it a game show with beach boys related questions 

[D409]

Just watched this - particularly like the way AGD introduces himself and tells the host of his passion for our heroes...

[drbeachboy]

Just watched this - particularly like the way AGD introduces himself and tells the host of his passion for our heroes...

Good man that he is...

[China Pig]

Just watched this - particularly like the way AGD introduces himself and tells the host of his passion for our heroes...

Ironically, they asked him a Monkees related question!

[You Kane, You Commanded, You Conquered]

"Sorry, this channel is not available in your region yet."   

Same here 

[Awesoman]

"Sorry, this channel is not available in your region yet."   

Here ya go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ziYKHbuKg

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

He's a walking heart attack.  . He's better get his hefty butt to the gym and lose some of that bacon. 

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Ah man, that's not cool

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

But it was "cool" when he told me to go f*** myself and got no flack from it. I'm calling it like it is just like he did.

[alf wiedersehen]

You seem like a hateful person.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Wasn't cool then either.

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

You seem like a hateful person.

I do it all for you. 

[Lonely Summer]

What is AGD up these days? Hasn't posted on BBB either. Anyone in touch with him? I gotta figure the ban was hard on him.

I talked to him online a few days ago.  Seems fine and very unconcerned about being banned from the board.

I'm a baseball person; whenever I see lifetime ban, I think of Pete Rose. Lifetime sounds very, very harsh to my ears. I would hope somewhere down the road, there AGD can be given a second chance.  I think  everyone deserves a second chance (yes, even that gambler Pete Rose).  Myself, I am working very hard for a second chance in one area of my life. Can't change the past, all I can do is try not to make the same mistakes again. How my attempts at bettering myself are received by the parties involved, I can't control that. All I can do is keep on trying to stay on the straight and narrow.