Thanks for posting Taj. YOu are right, we have a very learned community of posters and the information is getting out to the citizens of Wareham. In fact, we might have to thank the Selectmen and Bobo for bringing attention to this site.

There is a feature on this site to ignore posters and/or posts from that person.

You need people like IHL & IHS on this site.
It proves that this site is not exclusionary. It also allows us to see and read the frustration of these folks.
Some where along the line they have been maimed.
Balance is OK.
These folks are only two on this site of many that are vitriolic. The site itself and the majority of the site members and contributors are not vicious.
Hopefully, you will help heal the wounds of IHL and IHS when your two new Selectmen are elected.
It all begins at Town Meeting.
Victory there will prove that change is coming and for the better. Then, some day, IHL and IHS will join in as contributors that have positive issues to discuss.

Dan, you beat me to it.

Wouldn't "they" love it if we started  a "Word Police" policy !  We musn't let them define us ,as they have tried so hard to do with CBW, Bob's Meeting, and now TBW.     IHS and IHL do not define this site, PERIOD.  But "bannishing them is unthinkable".

When you think about it, we are all uninvited guests on "The Bill W. Site", talking as if we own
it !

Dan is right when he points out that our unexpurgated rants  could be called "over the top" but that they also underscore the very real fact that thare many people in this town who are hurting. Some..and this just an opinion...are hurting so much that they may need some low level counselling  so that they  can understand that the way they are dealing with their hurt is just hurting them more. But make no mistake about it: they are in pain. I think we all respect that.

Having said that, this conversation has reminded me the we are a site that is evolving  as the situation we are dealing with is evolving.   It started as the brainchild of a very talented and very angry man, and for a while it was almost  a support group for people who needed to vent their wrath.

Our numbers have swelled and we want them to swell even more.  Our tasks are clear and compelling: We have to raise public awareness about the problems, and we have to do the grassroot stuff that brings in more voters.  As we write our  posts we should perhaps ask ourselves how what we are writing will impact on the people we want to attract.  We all love Wareham  for a lot of reasons. Not all of our lists would be the same , but I'll bet "diversity"  would be on every list. This site is as  richly diverse  and unpretentious as Wareham itself, and let's keep it that way, remembering that self-editing is both a freedom and a responsibility .

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Dick you are great.
PS..you could care less about Pink blocking you :)

Taj,  I would like to thank you for posting that statement.  I think it was a good thing.

Yeah taj thanks for making the 3 comments you've made to this site. Thanks for all the hard work

How much of this is just because they type in all caps?  I know for many computer geeks, typing in all caps means "yelling," but there are many people out there who don't understand that.