My response wasn't as a mod, and my mod status has nothing to do with it?
How 'bout this, give up your mod status and go back to participating in the forums as a regular "joe", or keep your mod status and only participate when your job as a moderator is required. Because honestly, your condenscending attitude when you were a regular commentor was at least bearable, but as a mod it just plain reaks of someone on a power trip who thinks they are untouchable. Ever since your mod status has been bestowed upon you your dickishness has been elevated to a whole 'nother level all together.
Here is my line of thought on the role of a mod and how a mod should conduct themselves. Moderators(in my opinion)should be virtually invisible and surface only when situations arise that
do not seem likely to resolve themselves. Which describes the majority of the mods here in EO land except for a few. Again, that's just my opinion.
I bring it up because I don't think you should be involved in the general discussion on the forums unless you are performing your job as moderator.
I didn't take it one step further, I responded directly to what you wrote. You're the one who took it one step further than the subject of the thread. If you had asked the simple question and left it at that, but noooooo, you had to take it one step further and be confrontational by introducing a controversy where none existed, by trying to make it about what Leo really thought was going on.
I really do not think you could twist yourself into more of a pretzel than you just did above.
It's actually very unusual, unless there is a foreign team playing in the event.
Really? <sarcasm>
Its the only time (a.k.a.
duh!).
When I read Leo's question my first thought was there were probably Canadians in the race.
As would any casual sports fan. Hence the reason for my question in the first place. Any casual sports fan would've asked themselves that very question in the logical place, the
Sports Forum .
Unless, they thought there was something sinister about it, in which they would then ask the question in the soapbox where politics and conspiracy theories are the
soup du jour.
Why Leo didn't think of it, I really don't know,
Yeah, me neither. That's why my question was directed at him, not you. So instead of you speaking for him and
trying to interpret what Leo really thought was going on. Here's a novel idea, maybe you should let him comment on the question I asked about it being of political nature or not.
but it's probably because you don't hear another country's national anthem played at very many automobile races, and the fact that ARCA (Automobile Racing Club of America) name doesn't immediately imply international participation.
But if you did hear another countries anthem being played at a sports venue most people wouldn't think of it as being political and merely a question that would be more appropriate in the
Sports themed forum in my opinion. You see, he made it political by posting it in a
political forum. If it wasn't political in nature, then the obvious spot for it is in the
Sports forum.
Did you not read, and comprehend, my initial reply in this thread? It's so simple even a dispatcher can understand it.
Did you not understand the nature of my question, the fact he was asking about a sporting event and it was posted in a political forum? It's so simple even a o.t.r. driver can understand it.
It would be a natural conclusion only if one were to place more emphasis on the poster rather than on what they posted. The only reason to do that is to be confrontational, to make it about the poster rather than the issue about which they posted about. There's no other reason to do that.
It was a simple question. Why would you ask an obvious sports related question in a political forum?
There isn't one. He gave no indication whatsoever of some conspiracy. He noted that Toledo is in the USA, and the Canadian anthem was sung, and wondered aloud why that might be. No conspiracy required.
By placing it in a political forum it opened up the idea that he thought is was something more than what it was. It's rather simple really, especially taken into consideration the nature of LDB's posts.
So noted with your initial question. I'm sorry if you didn't like the answer you got.
I didn't get an answer from LDB, but I did get a long dissertation from our resident "buttinski".
Since it's sports related, in really wouldn't be inappropriate, per se, in the Sports Page forum, but because the race itself was merely the setting and not the subject of his post, the Soapbox is the more appropriate forum for the thread.
If that is the thought process from LDB. We don't know that now do we? Because he hasn't commented on the reason why he put it in here.
Actually, my initial response to Leo was, in fact, a big fat blatant "duh". But keeping in mind that he might not be a big sports fan of sports where the Canadian national anthem is played here in the US, I conceded that hearing it played at an automobile race might be very unusual for him and he might not make the connection to Canadian race car drivers being in the race, which is why I answered the way I did.
I agree with you. Duh!!
It is also a sign of respect, but the fact that different countries exist at all is politics. It's why county, state, national and international borders are called "political boundaries", because all are political units.
At this point your message reads and sounds like this, "blah, blah blah blah,blah blah-dittidy-da, blah blah
That would have been an excellent response to Leo's question.
If it were posted in the Sports forum yes, now you got it. Guess what? Everyone know's I don't step foot in the other forums, so if it would've been posted or move to its proper place, we wouldn't even be having this conversation
Sorry to disappoint, but I don't think it was some kind of conspiracy or a show of disrespect at all. I would have thought my initial response in this thread would have made that clear enough.
Seriously dude, its not all about you. Oh you didn't disapoint, you acted accordingly to your typical self. Again, my remarks were aimed at LDB, not you.
