Gee, all these poets and songsters on this site are giving me an inferiority complex!! ;)
Yeah, it's full of irony. First, she makes sweeping generalizations not only about "angry countermos" (and those of us who have interacted with Juliann know that she tends to project anger and hysteria onto others, so who the heck knows how she figures who is an "angry countermo") but about Mormons, too:
Why is it that when LDS are prevented from posting somewhere we just find other boards? Has anyone seen a board where LDS churn out multiple daily threads complaining about another place who wouldn't allow us to post?
LDS just find other boards? Is that right? Better ask the RFM moderators about that. One of their biggest jobs is the one that outrages LDS in the first place - deleting posts by LDS believers who are defending the faith. Good grief, this is the big complaint about RFM, I can't count how many times I've seen LDS posters gripe about it. RFM won't allow them to defend their faith. Likewise, the Tanner board didn't
fairly allow it, either. So do LDS posters just leave RFM alone? Do they recognize the right of RFM to be run by its owners as they so choose? Heck, no. They troll the site constantly (they may not consider it trolling but the RFM mods do) and then talk about RFM and what a horrible hate site it is, even write talks that consist largely of pulling out-of-context statements from posters over there (Juliann, you do remember Dan Peterson, don't you?).
And Juliann claims LDS posters just leave boards that don't allow them alone?
If it were anyone other than Juliann making an observation so wildly contradicted by abundant evidence, I would be astounded, but since it's Juliann, it's just par for the course.
The only time reason RFM has become slightly less popular as a topic of discussion is because of the existence of THIS board. Doesn't this board have a right to be run as its owner chooses? If posters here want to discuss MAD, it is no different than MAD posters wanting to discuss THIS board. Except normally, on this board, people are upfront about WHO or WHAT they are discussing, whereas on MAD they play games with themselves and pretend they aren't discussing specific individuals.
I know that reality is often an unwelcome intruder in the MAD world, but here is a lesson in reality: if you create a board that allows critics and believers to dialog, and then openly engage in extremely biased moderating, then you are going to have a predictable result: former posters who are unhappy with the way you run your board, and they may just create another board in response to that. Shocking, isn't it? Who'da thunk it.