No Flame Wars on the NuestrosRanchos.com Group

En posicion de uno de los mediadors es mi intencion a guardar la paz. Quitaré cualquier persona del grupo que causa problemas. Horita no hay problema y quicera que eso no cambia. He creado un grupo especial para que todos interesados pueden continuar en esta discusión fuera del grupo. Cualquier persona interesada en ser parte de este grupo envía su dirección

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NR_OtherDiscussion/

My self imposed role in the group at this point of my life is to make sure that the NuestrosRanchos.com group remains a place where serious genealogists can help one another in a comfortable and safe space. Yes from time to time something controversial is said and yes from time to time feathers are ruffled. I've lived in the deep South - North Carolina since 1998 previously having lived in Maryland for 18 years and before that SJ, CA for 26 years. Talk about culture shock, the South is a place of culture shock for a person coming from my background. The racism here in the South is so thick you can cut it with a knife. Every time there is any type of personality clash it always ends up being because this person doesn't like black people or that person doesn't like white people. It is always about race. It has developed into a "way of life" for a lot of folks unfortunately and a system that has been around for many many many years before me and will be around for more years to come. Yes I could devote my life to changing that, but that is not where my priorities lie at the present. AND having said that I don't feel it is my position to "Fix" or even jump in here and there and take up the shield of good v. bad on social issues and on the side of being politically correct or even feeling like I have to take a position simply because I happen to be one of the moderators. My views are just that, mine. Anyone demanding to know my views just because I'm the moderator should start discussion to remove me from that position. Get 51% of the members to want this and I'll gladly step down, no argument from me. I've never ever wanted to be where I'm not wanted. eh dicho!

People will remember the days of me weilding my Ax and purging the group of members that never sent in genealogies. I will not hesitate for a moment to eliminate a flame war on the NuestrosRanchos.com group even if it means dissolving the group. There will be no flame wars in the group. Now having said that I don't want you all to think that I'm cutting off discussion on this subject which I'm not. What I am is saying that within the NR group there will be no flame wars and this message has the potential to dissolve into that. So I have created a special yahoo group called: NR_OtherDiscussion. I will bend over backward to enroll all people in the NR group that would like to be part of this group. Just email me and I'll subscribe you and on this group you can talk about anything under the Sun no restriction: Sex, Drugs, RocknRoll, have at it.

Your Group NR_OtherDiscussion has been created. You can access your group using the link below or from the Yahoo! Groups "My Groups" page.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NR_OtherDiscussion/

Group name: NR_OtherDiscussion
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NR_OtherDiscussion
Group email: NR_OtherDiscussion@yahoogroups.com

joseph

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Joseph Puentes
http://h2opodcast.com (Environment Podcast)
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http://PleaseListenToYourMom.com (Women's Peace Podcast)
http://NuestraFamiliaUnida.com (Latin American History Podcast)
http://NuestrosRanchos.com (Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Aguascalientes Genealogy)