>>>>>And, like I said, I guess the intolerant ones may have left (and left the moderators saddled with a rule nobody knows or cares about),
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>>>Is that what you said? I'm afraid that the Reds under the Bed must have modified your message in that case- no doubt to provoke the Puritans at the keyhole.
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>>>As for me, I'm sorry for this post, but it's not my fault: the Devil made me do it.
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>>I'm not even deurinated at the whole issue... just wanted to know whether there's sufficient support for the proposal to suggest the removal of the rule.
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>>What irks me is that the message itself, with the stunning revelations about how the housing crisis works, remains practically forgotten.
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>Not surprised. Periodically I've posted thumbs up and thumbs down messages (the latest thumbs down was the same day as your message) and I've received not a single response to most of them. Folks are just not paying attention or intentionally avoiding some chatter messages. Can't say as I blame them :o)
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>Surprisingly though, I could swear that I had responded to your message. Every now and then my messages disappear but I think it is a weird keyboard combination I am accidentally hitting. I think it posted, and all that happens is the refresh happens or something and I'm back at the previous message. This also occurs periodically while I'm typing a response to someone else's message. If I don't pay attention (and frankly I often don't), then I don't catch that the message that just displayed is not in fact the one I just posted (or thought I posted).

I am the one messing with them. Hahahahaha.....

(Another joke. I have no idea why I am so chipper on a dreary November Monday).