Junico said:
You've been on the forum for how long? And already you want to push someone elses creation around and make it your way? With all due respect, you need to check yourself and your power issues.
Now, I know that you mean well, and that it would be informational and possibly beneficial to others, but still, the way I've seen you project yourself on this board exuberates the typical bully, higher than thou, hyperextrovert, cop attitude.
Sorry man, that's just how I see it. I know I'll be on your shit list as another "person that doesn't understand what cops have to face every day". But I'm ok with that. How about sending SteveCo some money as a contribution to his site, I'm sure he'd be ok with that as well.
How long I've been lurking here and how long I have been posting under one ID or another is totally irrelevant. If it is your position that you have to rack up 800 posts on one user ID before you can contribute anything worthwhile or simply ask for a positive change in the “creation” to make it more user- friendly, then you are a sadly mistaken.
I’m not sure what “power issues” you are taking issue with.. as I have stated in the past, I am just another BARFer here. As to how I have “projected” myself here on the board.. If you cannot tell when I’m joking with someone on the board and when I am not, that’s your problem. I have been posing here since November 2002 under 2 other IDs. I guess now that I’ve “outed” myself as a cop with this new ID, all of the sudden <gasp > I’m a bully, hyper-extrovert a$$hole cop.. it seems to me you have a problem with cops, because you never had a problem with me before, ol’ buddy.
If you know for a fact that many other people (contributors and non-contributors alike) have been asking for a LEO forum for a long time and you agree that I "mean well" (and that it would be both informational and beneficial to others, etc..) that what in the hell are you griping about?
BTW, I don’t give a crap if you don’t understand what I deal with every day.. I never asked you or anyone else to understand me or sympathize with my “plight.” :hand
REALITY CHECK: It’s a friggin’ job dude. I am NOT my job and my job is NOT me. If you want to see me thorough some naïve or ignorant stereotype, that’s fine. But, don’t assume that is right. For one, you don’t even know if I REALLY am a cop, just that I have insinuated that I am.
Brash started a thread that was made sticky and has racked up what?? ..almost 2000 posts in about 2 weeks. Seems pretty damned popular. I was just asking for a place to help out BARFers.. offering them advice, expertise and insight into pending and current laws, enforcement activities, policies, trends and attitudes among LEOs and how they may impact motorcyclists.. excuse the hell out of me for asking/offering. I’m all for giving Steve and his moderator staff their due.. but, “forums cost money” is a cop out (pun intended).
Faz wrote, “..Having a LEO specific forum will be an official endorsement, a definite link between this site and local law enforcement agencies.” That would be like saying having a “Stunters Rock” forum is an official endorsement of stunting. It is really just a place for stunters to communicate/brag and people to contact stunters to ask them questions about stunting. What is wrong with giving equal time to the law-and-order crowd?
Lastly, I agree with Brash: “In the end....this is a public motorcycle forum. I like to help out when I can...but this is not a police board.” Amen Brash.