Ebay idiocy

Where to begin.... Random points in no particular order I feel Sellam's pain. I completely understand it. I have no problem with the idea behind his post, but I do have a real problem with the way he expressed it. I'm not going to say that any profanity whatsoever is forbidden. It's not. We're chronologically adults here, so we can deal with a bit of that and I'm not going to start censoring particular words, etc. However, there is something called "going overboard" and that was certainly illustrated here IMHO. A word in a post will probably be ignored by most. Bear in mind that a few more than that and it reflects badly on you to some others on the list (which you may or may not care about, that's your call). More than that and I'll come down hard on it. It's not going to be accepted. There will be even less tolerance for political or religious statements of an antagonistic nature and zero tolerance for personal attacks. I reserve the right to handle these on a case by case basis. If someone sees banning from the list as being "a baby", then I'm a baby. If people don't follow the above they will be banned without any apologies from me. I can not read every post to the list. If someone sees something I should know about, feel free to email me privately about it in case I missed it. Don't expect that I will handle it how or when you want, I'll deal with it in my own way or perhaps not at all if I don't think it's warranted. I will publicly repeat my offer for classiccmp to have a link to VCM, and would think VCM would return the favor. We all should do our best to support VCM as best we can. I know that can't always happen for obvious reasons. When I need moochobucks for an item that is only on ebay, I need to get moochobucks selling something there so I can buy it. But that doesn't mean we can't try to support VCM (and I'm not saying people haven't). I have a great respect for Sellam's actions & achievements. I have a great respect for the contribution he's made to the hobby. I don't feel that those sentiments are diminished by the fact that I am not particularly thrilled when he just posts to the list when he's looking for something. I'm not saying he should stop posting those requests to the list, nor am I minimalizing his contributions to the hobby by expressing this sentiment. I'm expressing my own opinion and encourage others to form their own opinions about that for themselves. I don't believe anyone questioned his devotion to the hobby. However, see the first paragraph above - that devotion does not grant a right to say anything in anyway one wants. Someone said he was just "being direct". Rude is rude, no matter what you choose to call it. There's a lot of 'tit-for-tat' posts on this topic that I would like to have weighed in on. But after some thought I've decided to step back (and also because I've run out of time and would like to respect my own deadline). I'd rather not see responses to this post on the list primarily because above I'm stating policies that don't need discussion, or I'm stating my own opinions just for clarification and I'm not asking for a debate. Best regards, Jay