Proudly knapped with copper only

[Zuma]

Yes it is a shame. I have been talking to him on PM alot
trying to figure a way to make everything work without the
agitation. I thought he was cool with it all. He is a talented
very nice guy, going out of his way to educate.
I don't think speculating is a good way for us all to handle this.
Getting the true reasons can only be done by getting the scoop
 from Iowa. Next best would be ask the mods.
Perhaps starting a thread asking for the info would be a better idea??
What do you all think?  Thanks Zuma

[Spotted Dog]

I am just now getting into knapping. I wanted to learn abo. Just got into reading Iowa's stuff.
Was going to read more today cause it's raining. Guess I slept to long. Abo or copper don't
matter to me. It's flint knapping . 

Dog

[Spotted Dog]

Now this really sucks to me. Even his comments on my little thread is gone.
I am not going to give up on how ever I learn to knap but I am disapPOINTed

Dog

[Marc St Louis]

I am sad to hear about members getting upset to the point of leaving.  Something we all should remember is that even when communicating face to face we can misinterpret another person, it's much worse using nothing but written words on the internet.  People depend a great deal on body language and tonal expressions to be able to tell what another is trying to say

P.S. Everything that gets deleted goes into a special forum accessible to mods and admins

[le0n]

The mods didn't do anything.

Then how does a non-mod user go about deleting a thread? I don't see that option on my threads on any of the forums I frequent as a normal user. Now the ones I am a moderator on, this is a piece of cake. Is he a mod?

But you're correct about the high-jacking. Threads get high-jacked. It's a part of life. The choice to remove something that others have invested time into should be a group decision. I don't know about the rest of you guys, however, time is something I don't seem to have a lot of.

If one chooses to not share his or her information on a thread they created, they should just edit their posts in said thread to read "deleted by me".

Also, my apologies for this thread high-jack. Once we're done discussing, I'll delete my posts regarding this matter from here.

P.S. Everything that gets deleted goes into a special forum accessible to mods and admins

yep. this is how the forums usually work. it allows the 'mods' to see what has been deleted and for what reasons.

[Zuma]

Great thoughts fellows.
I think it might be good to post these comments
 to the forum board/boards. Perhaps
Iowa will reconsider. He was fine with it all
yesterday. Something different may be the reason?
I was hoping you all would have some idea about
a new thread. No need to delete anything here
unless you really want to. I'll start the thread.
I would appreciate all you all's comments.
This is a really great site and every one I know
 respects the rules and each other.
There are problems but hopefully we can shake them out.
Thanks Zuma
I just can't figure a title.

[mullet]

I tried to PM John but his Box is full.

[caveman2533]

I never saw anything that was disparaging against Iowa. I knew from the minute Ben chimed into his thread it was going to go South. Ben has an agenda and will play nice at the beginning of a thread, but will always steer it to his agenda.  Iowa had a good thing going and I hope he reconsiders coming back. I may take a whoopin for saying this but the Mods should have done more to protect the good
Members here from his crap. That's why he has been banned from several other sites.

[Zuma]

I never saw anything that was disparaging against Iowa. I knew from the minute Ben chimed into his thread it was going to go South. Ben has an agenda and will play nice at the beginning of a thread, but will always steer it to his agenda.  Iowa had a good thing going and I hope he reconsiders coming back. I may take a whoopin for saying this but the Mods should have done more to protect the good
Members here from his crap. That's why he has been banned from several other sites.

Humm very interesting,
Thanks for the comment
Zuma

[Marc St Louis]

I never saw anything that was disparaging against Iowa. I knew from the minute Ben chimed into his thread it was going to go South. Ben has an agenda and will play nice at the beginning of a thread, but will always steer it to his agenda.  Iowa had a good thing going and I hope he reconsiders coming back. I may take a whoopin for saying this but the Mods should have done more to protect the good
Members here from his crap. That's why he has been banned from several other sites.

Now exactly what kind of whoopin would you like? 

I didn't read all of Ben's posts but I did send him a pm awhile back cautioning him to be respectful in his posts.  The posts I did read seemed to be respectful, although I can't say the same for some of the responses to him.

[Zuma]

Marc
To be clear I don't want no woopin
But I would like to be informed as to who or what you found
to be disrespectful. You addressed Ben so why not spill the rest?
I don't want to make misstakes during these discussions.
Thanks Zuma