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Julieta, Sam is my friend and she has been this this way since I first met her. It �s useless to tell a tomato to stop being a fruit, or to stop being red. It �s her nature to fight for what she believes in a good or bad manner, according to the tone people use with her. The only way to get Sam to show how wonderful and kind woman she is, is treating her in a kind manner.
You, on the contrary, was a sweet and kind woman when I first met you. When I came to the reporting page and saw what you have written about a ws: "thief, thief, thief, I love this word..." and so on, I was shocked and didn �t recognize the beautiful and wonderful woman I met.
I understand that you have personal matters and feelings that may cause you to act this way, but in the past being in opposite sides was not a reason for disrespecting each other.
From that night on (at the reporting page) you �ve been changing from a wonderful friend you used to be from an attacking woman who I can �t recognize.
So I know you �re perfectly able to be the first, even if you sometimes choose being the second, I understand now both sides are part of your nature. You �re a kind person but you also may attack when you dislike something or someone.
If I asked you to stop that �s because Sam barely can show her other side now, for all the attacks I �ve seen her standing later. But I assume you can. I can �t tell a tomato to stop being a fruit but I can surely ask you to stop being a fighter you are showing us now to show the wonderful person I know you still are.
Friends stand many things when the friendship is based on trust and admiration. I �m able to admire and respect some enemies too. If the friendship is real, friends can also stand a big fight. Friends don �t lie to each other. Friends don �t have to give support to other friend �s mistakes, friends tell a friend he is wrong.
Based on all of it, I ask you to stop the attacks. Can you, please?
I�d like to say that some of the moderators
have taken this matter too far. Victor is the owner of this site, so I�ll
obey his rules.
Julieta, this message must have been also
for me as I also post pictures in the cafe as often as I want.
I don�t like people criticizing one another, I
don�t like the people who think that they�re the only ones who are fair and
right most of the time. I hate people telling me what, when, how and why to do
certain things. I don�t like getting PMs from people who never care about a
single thing I post and then ask for my support when there�s a discussion going
on; I don�t like this kind of behavior. I know we have to obey the rules and I try to
keep them as much as I can, but are we perfect? I don�t know if you are, but I
am not. What I hate the most is having the feeling of being observed, examined
every single time I upload a new worksheet just in case it has the wrong
picture, a layout that I�ve chosen by chance, and it seems to �belong� to
somebody else, and to make matters worse I have to be able to remind if I
happen to have copied a test from an old book or paper which I might have
downloaded from the Internet a long time ago.Unbearable!!!!!
I must confess that I have never reported a
worksheet and I will never do, but I do respect the ones who do so. I have never
voted against or for a worksheet. Am I
guilty? Am I an irresponsible or immature member of this site?
Am I
doing anything wrong when I pop in the caf�? Is it wrong to enjoy myself for a
while with the great people who pop in there? Why shouldn�t I do that? Is it
because the pictures, photos or videos take too much space? Let�s not talk
about space�
Am I being silly or childish as some of you
have said because I miss a friendly and positive atmosphere? Who are you to
tell me what kind of place this should be?
Who is being rude here? Who is trying to give
classes of morality?
�I
wish more people would share the games, or activities which are successful in
their classes... But I don �t see that, instead I see people being badly
treated because they try to be fair, and keep the site an original one and not
full of copied things, and others constantly posting huge and thousands of
pictures in the cafe the 24hrs.. Is that to be professional?
I
believe this discussion has started because some people started provoking and
making feel ridicule the ones
who reported the (famous)
worksheets and voted for them to be removed while others just voted against the
rules! So then, the people who spend time trying to get rid of copies (remember
this site is for original works)... get bullied, called names, and the rest by
the ones who don �t really care about this, maybe because they have copied stuff themselves! Who knows.�
Who do you think you are to tell me that I have
to participate in the reporting section, in the forum or wherever?� .I must
accept the rules of the site but not yours.
Do you consider yourself more professional than
me just because I post pictures or whatever I wish the caf�? Isn�t it the right
place to do so? If you don�t like it, don�t pop in.
I want to thank all the people who have helped
me with technical or educational issues, those whose work or comments I admire(there
are lots of them) and those from whom I learn so many things every day , the ones
who provide a great deal of links where I can find anything I need, the ones
who make me laugh or cry with their jokes or stories�..But I mustespecially thank those who are trying to keep
this site full of positive energy, respect, tolerance, friendship, love, fun,
peace and forgiveness . People as Julieta, Epit, Nebal, Damielle, , Mariethe ,Zora,
Aimee, Cheezels,Aftab, Isabelucha, Katiana, Julian, Hallil ,Anita, Fiona, Victoria,
Mena,��..I can�t name all of them, the post would be too long. Sorry .
Moderation = quality of being moderate and
avoiding extremes. (WordReference.com)
I won �t apologise for sending a pic, though it �s not the right place to do it.Idon �t usually take much space in the forum . This is my last post about this matter. Have a nice week all of you.!!
Sylvie, we �re just going to stop when you arrived.
I want to assure that by the time we want to create our own website we �ll do it. As you said, the site is Victor �s, and until the owner doesn �t ask us to leave, we �ll stay. Or until we decide to leave, what comes first.
EDIT: OK Victor. As I said, we were going to stop when Sylvie arrived. We�re done with this matter now.
I �m sad this discussion has turned into a place
where MANY have taken the opportunity to give vent to their anger and
dislike of other members.. which deviated the purpose of the
discussion. I wanted to know if the new system 3 strikes and you are out! is convinient. I didn �t wish Mar �s account to be cancelled although I didn �t like the fact that she had so many copied worksheets and called people jealous for reporting...
( Will tell you tomorrow how wrong you have been! Maybe this message will lead to more hatred & misunderstanding ???? Hope people will be as smart & clever as you are!! )
Have a nice ...( ?) night - here! - I �ll be delighted to talk to you again!!!
Let �s try one thing, All together.
