11-08-2017, 02:30 AM
As far as this forum, bear in mind everyone reads different things into different posts. Emotions are hard to comprehend when written and not expressed face to face. What offends one, makes another laugh, or think. Fine line. The job of a moderator is to read a post, and try and determine if it's helpful, accurate, benign, hurtful, hateful, spiteful, detrimental, etc. was something said meant in jest, or as a mean jab? Was it accurate or inaccurate. The moderator must then make a decision whether to let it ride, modify it, or delete it. Was the moderation necessary? Was it in the best interest on not individual members, but in the interest of the forum as a whole. Sometimes we as moderators make the wrong decisions. We are human. Then again we are not being paid to do this, we do it because we believe it helps the forum.
I have never come across this British or Aussie anti-Americanism, although I do notice a very different humor from members of those two countries. Although I read Cormanus's post, it never resonated with me that it was anything malevolent. I have ridden with Cormanus at the first rally in North Carolina, drank tea with him, and must say I didn't feel any of it in person. He and Pterodactyl seemed quite pleased to be here in the states, visiting with forum members, and riding motorcycles in the beautiful mountains we have there. He has also happily hosted Americans who visit Australia.
Sometimes we as Americans are our own worst enemy, feeling superior but doing incredibly inferior things ( like in that video for example.. But often far worse) emboldened by the freedoms we enjoy. But we are not alone, there are stellar examples and miscreants in every subsect of humanity.
Hopefully we can all realize that we are here because of motorcycles and the CB 1100 in particular, and leave politics and religion and other polarizing subjects out of our posts. Think about what we say and how it could be interpreted by others.
I have never come across this British or Aussie anti-Americanism, although I do notice a very different humor from members of those two countries. Although I read Cormanus's post, it never resonated with me that it was anything malevolent. I have ridden with Cormanus at the first rally in North Carolina, drank tea with him, and must say I didn't feel any of it in person. He and Pterodactyl seemed quite pleased to be here in the states, visiting with forum members, and riding motorcycles in the beautiful mountains we have there. He has also happily hosted Americans who visit Australia.
Sometimes we as Americans are our own worst enemy, feeling superior but doing incredibly inferior things ( like in that video for example.. But often far worse) emboldened by the freedoms we enjoy. But we are not alone, there are stellar examples and miscreants in every subsect of humanity.
Hopefully we can all realize that we are here because of motorcycles and the CB 1100 in particular, and leave politics and religion and other polarizing subjects out of our posts. Think about what we say and how it could be interpreted by others.