Re: Talk Back
Published at: Sept. 1, 1998, 9:26 a.m. CST by staff
Hey folks, Harry here. As many of you have noticed there have been some assholes posting in the TALK BACK as myself, Brian Linder, Steve Jobs, George Lucas, and actually trying to perpetrate lies and deceipt in order to cause chaos, anger and extreme immaturity. Between the cussing and these problems I have decided NOT to shut down TALK BACK. I won't allow 1 or 2 highly disturbed individuals to interfere with what has otherwise been a wonderful new feature for the site.
So what am I going to do? Well, first off I will no longer be posting to TALK BACK. So that'll end the chance for any of you to believe I'm posting there. If there is a subject that I really want to address, that is written in TALK BACK, I'll simply post it as an addition to the principal article, or create a new page where I talk about it. It will not be as a TALK BACK. Yes, this sucks, but it won't be permanent.
I have talked to Jamison Gold about adding a feature to TALK BACK at an administrative level that will identify for the administrator (that's me) the ISP addresses of the cowards, assholes, and dweebs that are posting, along with the ISP addresses of all you regular folks. When offensive and misleading material appears, not only will it be removed as you have noticed, but we will then LOCK OUT the cowards, assholes and dweebs' ISP address so that they may no longer have access to the TALK BACK. Since this will be based upon their server, and not upon information you field, they will simply be snuffed out.
This way there is no further interference with you good folks that really care about film, and wish to discuss it unimpeded by moronic tantrum throwers that whine till their parents change their diapers. No longer will you have to question the legitamacy of a posting.
So remember. No posting by Harry Knowles, Harry Jay Knowles, The Big Kahuna, Fat Bastard, Father Geek, Tom Joad, or anyone 'known' to be of the site is to be taken as real. I am assured the situation will be resolved soon, but until then if you have real questions, just email me with them. I'm sorry to be taking up space, which could be used for news, with this sort of BS, but it had to be addressed.
Thank you,
Harry