Ronn

As a moderator here, I too am deeply sadden by Ronn's departure. I will not take sides in this issue as I believe it simply became a no win debate. Loosing any member is (unsatisfactory) to me and I hope every member, when it is not a necessary departure. Many times in life we allow ourselves to be caught up in the moment only to learn later it probably wasn't the right thing to say/do. Moderating at times requires us to separate ourselves from a hunter's perspective and fulfill our obligations and duties as we believe them to be for the benefit of this site. If you feel we made a mistake you will let us know! I have faith in people here, both in the members and my fellow moderators! I for one will continue moderating here as long as you the membership feel that I am fulfilling my duties. That's it on this subject. HM

Ronn, I sure know how you are feeling! Even though I wasn't "banned", I sure as hell took a terrible beating a few months back during the health care debate (and PLEASE let's not start that again). As a matter of fact, you I and were locking antlers pretty well there for quite some time, but, as I recall, for the most part, it was everybody against me. That was hard to take as I was just standing up for my convictions, like everyone else was, which as good Americans, we are obliged to do if, for no other reason, but to take advantage of the freedom of speech which we enjoy. Anway, I almost quit at that time, and even now, I'm not quite over it (still licking my wounds). Anyway, you and I came through that whole debate still good friends, so maybe you will reconsider your dsecision. Whatever you do, you still have my email address, my admiration and my friendship.

Will miss ronn's postings on here. Had some humor in them at times and had some hunting knowledge with others in areas that he knew well. Guns is one instance. Ask a question about guns and ronn usually had an educated response.

I did not agree with how the sitiuation as a whole was handled from the moderating side. We will address those issues as well. I expect our mods on DHC to be a behind the scenes type group when it comes to peace making issues. Members will not be banned for just one mods decision in a controversial thread. That will be discussed as a whole mod group.

Hunting Man said it well. Here is a line from his post in this thread.

"Moderating at times requires us to separate ourselves from a hunter's perspective and fulfill our obligations and duties as we believe them to be for the benefit of this site. If you feel we made a mistake you will let us know!"

Feel free to send me a private message over any moderating concerns you have.

I apologize to the membership on having to read, put up with pointless drama. Lets take it back to hunting topics and leave the drama to the "wives".

Onehorse I apologize to you personally for not stepping in and doing anything when you felt like it was everyone against you. Like (I think) I said in that thread before I think other folks probably agreed with you they just didnt have the man hood to stand up and say what they thought.

"Onehorse I apologize to you personally for not stepping in and doing anything when you felt like it was everyone against you. Like (I think) I said in that thread before I think other folks probably agreed with you they just didnt have the man hood to stand up and say what they thought."

Mark,
No apology necessary, but one thing I would ask is that in the future, either you or the moderator step in a lot quicker when things start to get out of hand or WAY off the topic or too dramatic. Hopefully we could avoid losing such a knowledgable/helpful member as Ronn in the future.

Also, even though I didn't see all the postings to this topic, what I did see demonstrated that the moderator has a very opinionated view of "trophy" hunting, and I'm not so sure that he successfully seperated his personal views from his role as the moderator. But, again, I didn't see all of the posts including all of Ronn's.

Sorry to go back into this but: I want everyone to understand my position on moderators. If I am unable to debate a topic at least to a certain level of discussion which may include my personal opinion then find another moderator. The major reasons I wanted to be a moderator was to enjoy exchanging thoughts and ideas and yes debating hunting/gun issues and also to help run the site. To simply sit back removing unwanted posts and not engaging in discussions would not be something I would continue to do. While I do not personally care for universal health care I should be able to discuss it and be a moderator at the same time. While the trophy hunting/outfitter debate got a bit out of hand I see no reason to tie the hands of the moderators and not engage period, in a posted topic. I wish the outfitter/trophy hunter debate would not have resulted in loosing a member, however, to simply sit back editing posts, won't cut it for me. If the membership/site owner demands that the moderators do not participate in discussions, then please let me know and my resignation will be swift. I always try to be helpful without out a lot of fanfare maybe inject a little humor once in a while but to stay on the sidelines only coaching sorry its not for me, I still like playing. HM