Thank you for the notification, and thank you for owning up to lack of moderation as well. No doubt you are all very busy and have many boards and threads to over see, but it is good to know that we who have reported abuse(s) are being heard. Let me know if you need me to send you pm's, I still have them.

Good luck and don't get too much of a headache!!

Happy Easter, soak up all the 'peace' before starting..(<ohhmmm>)

Ingrid

Wow, down to 3 board pages.

Somebodies have been busy.

you're right.. it must be sweeps week!

Ingrid

Thank you...for the most part this is a "thankless" job. We appreciate you patience as we continue to clean up the board and try to get things back on track.

Where's the gong show when it's needed ?

If I even think of breaking a rule I'll just remember that red eye in your avatar & that will be deterrent enough.

Down to 1 page almost.

The "eye" sees all! LOL!

The moderating team wants to encourage fun, healthy discussion and debate. Hopefully we will get the board back on track and things will begin to flow smoothly. It's understandable that people can sometimes get passionate about their favorites on a show, but taking it to a personal level can be avoided by simply reporting the problem post/poster rather than being pulled into the drama. Thanks again for everyone's cooperation and patience.

A big THANK YOU from me too. We needed you about six weeks ago. Thank you!!!!!

I am not one for reporting because I'm not a tattle tale but I now understand it does need to be done when the comments get so out of hand.

THANK YOU again!!!

Does the eye see the future? Stock market? Sports games??? hehehehe!

Thank you!!!!! Thank you!!!!! Thank you!!! I am another who did not report posts at first b/c I felt like a tattletail and I thought things could be worked out amongst ourselves.

You have a tough job and when a board becomes popular, it just gets tougher keeping up with all of them.

Thanks again! (Love the eye . . . it will definitely make ME behave!!!)

I haven't always been able to ignore some of the comments and realize I should have "reported instead of retorted" alot of times...I wish I'd started reporting sooner!

Thanks mods for taking quick action and cleaning the place up tho.

Don't consider it tattleing. Prefer the term policing ourselves.

"reported instead of retorted"

Good one !

May I ask when the Trace thread will be re opened ?

Today , tomorrow , never ...

It just re-opened. Thanks for your patience.

Thanks !

thank you for cleaning up the board. You guys are awesome. I had given up being here cause the boards were so awful. Great job, I love it

Hey liz!!! You knew we'd get over here eventually.

Twisted Fate, I bet it is thankless and when things get uhm..heated on the board, I bet you're glad it's a virtual thankless job!!

Btw.. I have to say, I like your tao quote although it DOES have me a bit confused..

still, thanks for doing this. I hope you're getting some gift cards or SOMEthing out of this..

Ingrid

Well if she is, she needs to hook the rest of us up.

YW...but my RL job is much the same... Im the senior therapist at a drug and alcohol residential treatment center... in other words... drama central!

The quote just means that when someone sees a thing as good, beautiful or right...they begin to make comparisons and view other things as bad, ugly or wrong...everyone likes what they like and dislikes what they dislike. It doesn't mean that just b/c you like something that thing is right or just b/c you dislike something that it is wrong. See?

Sadly, no gift cards... We admins and mods usually just get a hard time...b/c no matter what decisions we make... some will see it as good...some will see it as bad...hence my siggy quote.

senior therapist by day and mod by night, no wonder your handle is 'Twisted'! Physician heal thyself!!
Seriously, you need to think of something else to do for decompressing!! Although that said, you probably have to go and see a therapist from time to time workwise. At least, I'm assuming. A friend of mine who became a social worker had to go through therapy first herself during training. That makes complete sense.

Interesting day job though. I'm in the midst of setting up a non profit (working on the certification right now) for veterans with ptsd. It's intended as a community reaching out to veterans so even though I have no qualifications whatsoever, the idea is to have professionals from the community donate their services for the program that is in the works. A 'double' support in healing if you will. Growing up in the Netherlands, I remember seeing documentaries where vietnam vets spoke of not only their struggles upon returning home, BUT feeling that the 'community' did not care about them when they did. Naturally, parts of that is because of perception, but, I think also because nothing in the US changes and there is no 'war at home', whereas the men and women fighting oversees have to endure most extreme dangerous situations. It's kind of schizophrenic as it were.
Anyhoo.. OFF TOPIC.. (that red eye, I have to tell ya)..

take care and thx for the explanation. I'm going through a book on the tao right now but you do have to be in the frame of mind to take it in and with kids floating around, it's easy to get 'out of that'..

Ingrid

Hey TF, I'm a high school teacher. . . I guess we're both gluttons for punishment.

hmmm.yes right. Plus interesting quote YOU have as well..

(gotta get myself a quote too now I guess ..)

Ingrid

I hadn't even realized . . . .

It's one of my favorite quotes from The Office. The boss, Michael, is supposed to fire someone, but he wants to be able to do it and still have the person like him. Needless to say, it's a looooooong, painful process.

Actually my day job is my decompression from these forums... LOL j/k

No, seriously, I'm involved in a lot of things to "decompress"... and I LOVE my RL job. I love working with addicts and alcoholics b/c I understand them and how they think. Plus the treatment team I work with is awesome! We have a lot of fun, although if most people overheard some of the rather dark stuff we find humorous they would be shocked. But we are like a big family at work and we all really support one another. And with all the other stuff I'm involved in I'm too busy to get "compressed"...LOL.

My director is a Vietnam Vet suffering from PTSD. That sounds like an interesting project. Hopefully I'm about to start yet another project. My boss asked me today if I would be interested in heading up our new IOP program and be our Drug Court Liason... sounds like opportunity is knocking...but I've got to make up my mind whether I'm going to pursue my Ph.D. before I accept b/c I've been giving that a lot of thought.

As for the Tao... no matter what kind of hurricane is going on around me I can take a couple of minutes to meditate on some of the passages and I get completely calm.

You are lucky to have a great team to work with. And you know, 'dark humour' is either your cup of tea or it isn't. Especially in your work environment anything to lighten things up, albeit going 'dark'..

As for your opportunities, congratulations on having two! Pursuing your Ph.d is a big deal so I can imagine that it's one or the other. Good luck on that one.

As for my project re. to ptsd. I have no rosy pictures on that. I see it completely as a supplemental, supportive feature to what veterans most likely 'ought' to be doing which is going to therapy and perhaps taking meds temporarily in order to function. There is still a lot to learn for myself, but getting the right people on board will be key. Never mind yet the actual program.

You must be an experienced meditator to be able to withdraw like that. Good for you or..lucky you! I'd love to get into a meditation program myself because it will be practice practice practice. I just read a book on systema breathing techniques and I am now reading a book on Zen by Paul Ralston, name escapes me.

Anyhow.. with all the sprucing and editing you guys have been doing on the board, I think that level of 'stress' is pretty well done now for all of you isn't it?? lol
I still think some of the chronic offenders should have been tackled but you (plural) are probably thinking, what the hey, this show is almost done. It might be an fyi for the next time. I've visited various boards and blogs and some people just seem to have the need to antagonize, no matter what.

Anyhow.. take care and good luck with your choice of opportunity. Something for you to meditate on I guess!

Ingrid

that is funny. somehow the timing has always been such that I do not get a chance to watch it on a regular basis. Have you ever seen the British version?

Ingrid

Brilliant and off the cringe-meter.

Great job Mods.

Thank you! I wish everyone shared your sentiments. It's funny to me that so many people were screaming for a moderator to come clean up this forum, yet when we did those same people are now crying the blues that we aren't being fair. I guess some thought that we would only "moderate" their "opposition" but that's not how it works...oh well, I guess you can't please everyone. Thankfully we do have a great team of mods who were willing to step in and help even though this is not their regular forum to moderate. I think we are back on track now and hopefully things will go smoothly for the rest of this season of Apprentice and in any future seasons of the show. I heard that there is already a "Celebrity Apprentice 2" in the works, but I don't know how true that is...maybe just rumor or speculation...I haven't heard an official word from NBC.

Anyway... we appreciate all of you who stopped by with genuine "thank you's" for the moderating team. The mods give of their time and effort to support the forums and attempt to keep things peaceful and fun. So remember to tip your bartenders and waitresses...and be kind to your mods!

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV...ntice/800032086

Now that was posted by TV Guide back in Januray right after this season barely started and greenlit doesn't mean it will definitely air or in January for that matter but I bet if they spend the money to make it then it will air eventually.

TF and all the mods who spent time cleaning this thread up, thank you. I'm not crying the blues at all. Some people needed to be reined in a bit

Who ever managed to get all the task threads put together. Awesome!

I think AzizalSaqr did a lot of that liz.

Yup...I live to merge.

Im sure everyone who values etiquette among forums etc, does value your work. And it was good to see the idiot posts being removed so the forum is more enjoyable So yes Good Job.

AZ, thank you for that. I love the new board now. And may I say the bad apples have been tamed. thanks again