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otterpond 16 years ago

I just got clued in regarding this whole Mountain Mama terrorism that has chased Chef Elaine off the forums. Chef Elaine has been a source of education for me in my short time here in Group Recipes and a willing mentor to my long list of questions. I will truly miss her being here.

Until I saw this sort of ridculous behaviour with my own eyes I couldn't begin to imagine it happening on a cooking forum. Now that it has happened I started looking around for controls.

I play World of Warcraft which is an online game in which I interact real time with millions of other players from around the globe. This sort of interactive, real-time human interaction community means that there will be a few idiots will stalk you, offend you or otherwise irritate you from time to time. The Software publishers of these sorts of games have realized that it is going to happen.

For such an event they provide two methods of defense. One is a keyboard function /ignore which means any contact from the offending party will simply be ignored and you won't even know it happened. The second method is to report the offender for breach of the terms of service agreement which will get the person banned.

The more I look, the less I find any method of raising a complaint or defending against the woefully moronic -- e.g. Mountain Mama.

Am I missing anything?

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laurieg 16 years ago said:

they went to a different site that they created. If you want to get in Email Lana through GR and she can give you an in she is the administrater of the site.. Chef Elaine is there as well as Lana Sharyl Frodo and several others including myself. I still like GR so I go back and forth. I know if you send Lana an email through GR it will alert her regular email and she will get back to you. That is why it has been pretty quiet here.

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otterpond 16 years ago said:

Sent Chef Elaine a message this morning inquiring about the new site. Yes --- its been deafeningly quiet here. And this is a cooking time of year!

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sharyl4 16 years ago said:

It's so sad to think adults cannot behave as such :( :( :(

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pkllady 16 years ago said:

I must be new post-"issue" but I'm always looking for good cooking resources. Please, let me know of this new place.

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lanacountry 16 years ago said:

Hello..all..Chef Elaine is not the only one that was direly affected by all of this. I did
absolutely nothing wrong and had a perfect record destroyed ..worse than CE..
has no one missed me?? I was here 8-10 HOURS a day for months..Never gave anyone anything but kindness and HIGH 55555s..(still have not) I started THIS group..
We ARE very active...elsewhere.

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laurieg 16 years ago said:

Lana of course people missed you...some people are still looking where you went..I know but i figured you let all of your "friends" know. but there are a few people on group recipes who don't go on every day and may have missed the "Drama" and wondering where the wonderful group is that they sometimes stopped in to chat in. I think it is just more prevelant to Chef Elaine because she has stuff posted about her directly on her page so you can "see" the drama ..whereas if you haven't been online for a week or so you wouldn't notice that someones scores went down.

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lanacountry 16 years ago said:

Hey Laurie, and you are so correct.. I do not mean in any way to discredit what
happened to several of us and seems to appear to continue for some.I was
saying that I did not even retaliate and I will not. The reason that I (we) did not
contact everyone on friends list..I have THOUSANDS on mine and we are a
small group. I love and miss every one of y'all..maybe I will come back at some
time when this still does not hurt so much. I am extremely busy building the new group.The person you mentioned ratings had gone down before I ceased
to list and post. Laurie, you are very familiar with the size of our group and extremely
high standards. We will NEVER allow the behaviors that are a daily and hourly
happening here.

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laurieg 16 years ago said:

It just seemed like you were upset that we were still usuing YOUR group. I know you didn't mean to come off that way but many people work and go to school or whatever so they are not on daily.. Those nice people are just "out of the Loop". I like group recipes and your new site is great too but until I get the hang of navigating around it I like to go back and forth. See you on EZ street :)....Love ya

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lanacountry 16 years ago said:

Laurie.. I still work..BTW.. I am doing much better and hope to return to
RL WORK, the first part of Dac.. (I am really very happy about it:)
BTW, I am very happy for anyone to help keep this OUR.. FFF group
going. I work several boards and am pretty much up to my nose in
work.
If you need any help over there, I have a help group going that is
very VERY active.. it is easy when you just do one or two..
Love you and hugs.. I sawwy I sounded rude.. Yall know I love this
place and it just has hurt a lot. It is NOT my nature to be unkind.

Hope everyone is planning a wonderful Thanksgiving wuth friends
and family!! Have a great one.

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sharyl4 16 years ago said:

I'm still here, been having problems with my 'puter :( I agree with Laurie, I bounce back and forth haven't figured the other one out yet....But, Dear Lana, with your guidence, I will!!!!

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lanacountry 16 years ago said:

EVERYONE..Re: OVER THERE... :() we have a help group set up and you
know me, I do NOT play..we are answering all questions within 2-3 hours..
some in 2-3 minutes!! Sharyl I just love you..did you get in the help group?

BTW, JUST to test drive.. I had a recipe ready to go..(now I don't list in
bulk, don't know how).. I had it on the other place with picture in THREE
minutes!! :()

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