It looks like @Vaxxylady has decided to step back - for now, anyway. She has worked tirelessly and (sometimes) thanklessly on this site and has had to put her own life on hold at times, just to keep the peace on here and to keep us supplied with "fresh meat."
I am sure that everyone on here is very grateful to her for all her hard work. I certainly am, and I am hoping that people will use this thread to tell her how valued her contributions to this site have been.
Many, many thanks to you, @Vaxxylady You deserve a rest now. TREBLES ALL ROUND!!!
Submitted for nomination of the Carl Sagan award, Jason Van Tatenhove and Stephen Ayres. The two star congressional committee witnesses and repentant terrorists. Showing signs of thinking, They climbed out of the slippery rabbit hole of disinformation after facing criminal sedition charges. Another belated repentance. On topic illustrating the same delusional thinking of the antivaxxers.
Killer badge for Anymouse. I'm in line for a turtle with the caption "never been first".
Moderating online forums is like herding cats, and just as dangerous! Thank you @Vaxxylady for reminding us to behave like the good people most of us are, and I hope we will continue to see you here ❤️
Thanks Vaxxylady, for all you do and have done! Sorry the trogs got you down, but know that there's a huge population of appreciative fans out there.
That said, which thread caused all this turmoil? I always miss all the fun!
Vaxxylady is/was will always be memorable and spoke with epic clarity.
Well, shit, I missed a lot. I appreciate Vaxxylady for the many times she hooked up this badge hoor with missing badges. Also I will not use the “C” word here. I am sorry if we have been dicks. We are angry at horrible people that won’t help make the world a better place. But since we can’t throat punch all the Republicans, I guess we are being assbags to each other. Boo!
Vaxxylady, as you may see most of us appreciate, and thank you for the effort you do here on SAV. Managing a public forum of any type is a hard thing to do by yourself.
I'm not that good with words to convey my feelings & thoughts, but I do want you to know that losing you would be a loss for everyone here.
If I have done something to make you feel unappreciated, then I will own it, and try to refrain from doing so.
Take good care of yourself. Thanks for all the work that gave us so much entertainment.
Thanks for being a beacon of clarity, humor and sanity when a good chunk of this country has lost what little they had in the ways of minds to begin with. All the best Vaxxxylady!
I appreciate all you do Vaxxylady…i almost never comment, but I do want to thank you for the work you do on this site.
Vaxxylady is fantastic. If you have an issue and make it known to her, she will take care of it. She looks out for all of our best interests here on SAV. She's a sweetheart.
I appreciate all ya’ll do. And I’m sorry we were not able to handle the other night, we tried, but there was no reasoning with him. Tempers are short right now and maybe you should hold off and let everyone miss what we do adore, the postings. You don’t know what you got till it’s gone. I think that I misconstrued that we were being told to stay on topic by a few not so liberal. And I for one, really despises the right side wins. being part of a majority should count, but we continue to be kicked around by the right. I will not bring up any OT until given a green light. Though mine are usually meek and mild. But I will hush🙂
While Vaxman is busy with work I can either moderate comments or write posts. I know you all don't want recycled posts and I'm trying to get new content for you. I'm not making any permanent changes or anything. Just need some help keeping things moving and not being derailed into fights and threats (which people are still talking about) and an easy way to do it is to keep things mostly-on topic, especially as tensions are especially high for a number of reasons. And yes, I made a personal request not to use a certain word because I hate it. Yes, in some countries it's fine. I get it. I had no idea asking to not use ONE word would be so upsetting, but I was wrong. I asked a favor. And no, nobody was going to get banned for using that word. When did I ever say that? I never threatened anyone with being banned for it. I guess asking for help to keep comments on track for moderation purposes and a polite request from using a word that I find vile and digesting, has now grown into this Vaxxylady backlash and members are telling each other to contact Vaxman to express their displeasure. My GAWD, I don't need this. I'm just volunteering for a friend and trying to keep content coming and the site civil so Vaxman, my friend, can travel for work. I really can't win and I'm not going to write in the interim if this what happens.
I have another post ready to go but I really think it's best if I don't bother because no matter what I do, I'll get complaints. And not from the people I'd expect, either. I'll think about it but I need a bit.
Very grateful to vaxxlady and vaxman for this site. Especially to vaxxlady for trying to moderate the commentary—a difficult task in any online, one-dimensional forum.
Thank you for reminding us not to be too crabby!!!
Thank you, Vaxxylady!
Thanks for everything you do, Vaxxylady!
Thank you, Vaxxylady!