To rds13601,

I think the ones here who collect the 25th appreciate your help locating the items you mention, for some of us however, (Myself and OutRider come to mind) the 25th is a betrayal. I stayed faithful and many times spent my hard earned cash on ARAH and even sold my Star Wars Collection to buy Joes. Now, Hasbro is saying to me "That's all done, what we did in the last 25 years wasn't good enough, throw it all away and buy these NEW "same old" figures, with crappy articulation and stiff joints". I figure as much money as I have put into this hobby, I earned the right to throw in a few snide comments about the 25th. Anything I say about the 25th is not personal towards you or any of you who still buy 25th figures, but I personally hate them and will NOT support this line. I'm sorry if you took that personal, it's not against you, but against a company I stayed faithful to for 25 years that threw away a product I was happy with for an inferior one.

As for General Scarlett, I don't remember anyone here calling her a "Biotch" or any other nasty word. What I do remember is everytime someone challenged or butted heads with her, she would start out with "I know you all think I'm Queen Biotch around here..." or something similar. But that didn't bother ME personally, it was irritating, but I knew it was part of her unique personality. What I got upset about was because she went and made MAJOR changes without asking the rest of the forum members what they thought or took a consensus as to whether it SHOULD have been done at all. Then, when nobody liked it, SHE started acting like it was because she was a Woman, and started saying everyone her THOUGHT she was a biotch, etc. It's one thing to do something only to find out it wasn't a good idea in the eyes of most here, but it's VERY INSULTING to TELL ME what I THINK of a PERSON. In my opinion, she wasn't level headed enough to hold a moderators position and I said just that. If you find fault with that, Sorry, but that's how I feel. She felt it was ok to tell everyone how she felt, but if anyone came back at her with how THEY felt, out came the "I AM MODERATOR" threats.

How would you feel if I posted a picture joking about something that you took serious, then when you got mad at me, I'd tell you "Well, you think I'm just an ignorant Jarhead". I don't have the right to tell YOU what YOU think of me. And neither did she. And if you did tell me how you felt, I'd threaten to ban you? I'll admit a lot of members here got fed up with her attitude early on, but I remained neutral, but when you have like 90% of the Veterans saying "Ok, that crossed the line..." you have to take a stand.

As for disrespect and Malice, who treated her like that? She got in a heated debate over religion, but that thread got WAY off topic and out of control and she wasn't the only one in that thread that needed a "TIME OUT". I think a lot of the disrespect and malice she got treated with was fabricated in her own head. Maybe one or two members here got loud with her here, but all in all, I think we gave her a wide berth of leinency before Mr. Fel was contacted about her conduct.

Other than the thread that got off course on religion, when did anyone here call here a name in the forum? Maybe I'm blind, but I only ask you to show me one instance....and for each one I can show you three where she was NOT called any name, but wrote "You all think I'm the queen B**CH here..." and similar remarks. If someone IM'ed her and called her a biotch, she banned them. I know she banned a hell of a lot of other folks for a lot less.

Think this over. Don't be reactive. If you can show me where we were being disrespectful (other than that one thread) I'll more than happily recant what I said.

Respectfully,
Frank