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Originally posted by tomegun
Rainmaker, I will find one for you if you didn't delete them all 
Jurassic, there is nothing wrong with saying someone is a good person or good official if you know that about them personally. Otherwise I just think you can say they are a good typist 
Mick, there are many things I could say similar to what you said but it would just turn into something nasty. For what? If someone can deny this "Internet Love", and the vast majority of posters do not do it, then I will say I was wrong. That will not happen unless someone deletes a lot of posts. See, I have asked a member of the forum if they knew someone they constantly gave kudos to and the answer was no. How can you tell if someone is a good official by what they type on this board? A lot of people know a lot of "rulebook" officials and this forum is a place some of them could hang out at. For me, many people on this board have sparked an interest in me to want to work with them or see them work. Some of this is for good reasons and some of this is for not so good reasons. However, I can not determine if someone is a good poster if they have 10,000 posts and stay involved in every thread. This gives very little, if any, indication of a person's ability to carry out what they talk about. I'm not saying this happens all the time and everyone does it, I just see it from time to time and I don't get it.
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You know what? I just read what's above twice, and I still don't know if I'm sure exactly of what you're talking about or where you're coming from. Internet love? And you're saying that some of us here post TOO much? And we talk NICELY TOO MUCH about other officials? WOW! Again, do you know what, Tom? If that's what's bothering you, then I think that you should mind your own damn business when it comes to other posters here talking to or about anybody or posting anything that has got absolutely nothing to do with you personally in any way, shape or form. If posters here talk to or about other posters other than you, or they like to have a little fun sometimes without flaming anybody, then that is of no concern to anybody here except maybe a moderator. And you aren't a moderator. I'll be damned if I'm gonna change the way I post because Tomegun might personally not happen to like it.
If you wanna personally decide that someone is a good poster or that you'd like to work with them, then by all means feel free to do so. That's your right- the same as it's the right of anybody that comes to this forum. Other than that, what you are doing is just petty and vindicative imo - and pointless to boot.
If I've misconstrued what your point above was, then I'll apologize. But if all you're doing is crapping on some of your fellow officials here by getting involved in something that was always basically harmless or meaningless in the first place- and wasn't related to you or had anything to do with you in any way shape or form anyway- and ALSO never involved anybody flaming you or any other official on this forum- then I really think that you should re-think where you're coming from.