Come now, was that entirely called for?

Really, I do not think this is like you, your above this kind of stuff. There is no need to be blatantly mean. If you have a concern it is best to just PM Kristi, she is wonderful, she will handle it. Being mean is just not going to solve anything and all it serves is to degrade yourself. Lets be civil my friend!

We need to be welcoming new members and not insulting them. Lets say she is 18, if Eden verified it, maybe if someone offered to be her mentor (Maybe you!), would that not be the helpful thing to do?

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I am indeed pmsing lol.

Like I said above, I'm really not trying to be malicious here.

I have already decided not to read these threads anymore, and I already stated what else I have to say.

No offense taken! It is pretty hard to offend me lol less

I understand that this post is pretty much closed and I apologise in advance for posting to it now that it has been put to bed so to speak. But as I'm not planning on being malicious or insulting anyone I hope you will all be able to forgive me.

The original post on this thread feels like spam. It isn't asking a question put in a context that can be answered. Something that its author has done a few times of late, making forum posts that lack weight, context and content. It is also my observation that this member of the community has thus far only contributed to the community by participating in such posts.

If I had been one of the first people to come across this thread I too may have thrown in a snarky remark and called it out as spamming./point farming. Because it wasn't even a proper question.

I can't say that Cherry did the right thing by continuing to engage with the threads founder, she could've just flagged it and that's it. Bit the thing is she...like the rest of us is Human. She has emotions as well as the right to express them. She may not have used the 'right' words (In a politically correct way) but a lot of her words echoed feelings that I, and other members of the community were feeling... upset, angered, worried, you know generally negative feelings

She even admitted she was pms'ing in the thread and much more snarlier than normal. She also initially explained that she was not trying to be malicious with her original comments.

Cherry is one of the most giving members of the community that I've personally met. She's written a fair few reviews in her time here, video reviews too, she's participated in community discussions and groups as well as being an active member on the forums.

To me she has been a great friend as well as a priceless editor and mentor. This girl has helped turn my drastic ability to create run on sentences that form into one huge long conglomerate of mess into much easier to read and comprehend passages of text. She's helped to fix my millions of typos, and sorted out my garbage by actually adding some punctuation to it. All of this she has done out of kindness and commitment to the community as a whole.

I personally feel bad that I didn't stick up for her in the first place and am sad over the number of flags that were raised when she was trying to explain herself and that her intention wasn't to be hurtful despite the fact she may have appeared to be rude. Im sad that she got so many flags when the initial, non sensical, spam like post didn't get a single one. Nor did some of the posts that seem to be written with the purpose of enraging Cherry further. I'm even more sad that I didnt speak up because I was afraid of getting banned. I thought America was incredibly proud of your freedom to speech and yet I'm already worried about this post getting flagged.

If this post offends you I apologise,it isn't written in order to inflame this debate. I just wanted to publicly stand up in support of cherry. Im not saying what she did was 100% ok, but it certainly is understandable and she truly is a member of this community in every possible way.

If you wish to respond to my post I'd ask you to rather message me on site or via email (mylovesbuzz on gmaill) as I really would hate for this thread to return to being a problem for Kristi.

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I understand that this post is pretty much closed and I apologise in advance for posting to it now that it has been put to bed so to speak. But as I'm not planning on being malicious or insulting anyone I hope you will all be able to forgive me.

The original post on this thread feels like spam. It isn't asking a question put in a context that can be answered. Something that its author has done a few times of late, making forum posts that lack weight, context and content. It is also my observation that this member of the community has thus far only contributed to the community by participating in such posts.

If I had been one of the first people to come across this thread I too may have thrown in a snarky remark and called it out as spamming./point farming. Because it wasn't even a proper question.

I can't say that Cherry did the right thing by continuing to engage with the threads founder, she could've just flagged it and that's it. Bit the thing is she...like the rest of us is Human. She has emotions as well as the right to express them. She may not have used the 'right' words (In a politically correct way) but a lot of her words echoed feelings that I, and other members of the community were feeling... upset, angered, worried, you know generally negative feelings

She even admitted she was pms'ing in the thread and much more snarlier than normal. She also initially explained that she was not trying to be malicious with her original comments.

Cherry is one of the most giving members of the community that I've personally met. She's written a fair few reviews in her time here, video reviews too, she's participated in community discussions and groups as well as being an active member on the forums.

To me she has been a great friend as well as a priceless editor and mentor. This girl has helped turn my drastic ability to create run on sentences that form into one huge long conglomerate of mess into much easier to read and comprehend passages of text. She's helped to fix my millions of typos, and sorted out my garbage by actually adding some punctuation to it. All of this she has done out of kindness and commitment to the community as a whole.

I personally feel bad that I didn't stick up for her in the first place and am sad over the number of flags that were raised when she was trying to explain herself and that her intention wasn't to be hurtful despite the fact she may have appeared to be rude. Im sad that she got so many flags when the initial, non sensical, spam like post didn't get a single one. Nor did some of the posts that seem to be written with the purpose of enraging Cherry further. I'm even more sad that I didnt speak up because I was afraid of getting banned. I thought America was incredibly proud of your freedom to speech and yet I'm already worried about this post getting flagged.

If this post offends you I apologise,it isn't written in order to inflame this debate. I just wanted to publicly stand up in support of cherry. Im not saying what she did was 100% ok, but it certainly is understandable and she truly is a member of this community in every possible way.

If you wish to respond to my post I'd ask you to rather message me on site or via email (mylovesbuzz on gmaill) as I really would hate for this thread to return to being a problem for Kristi.

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I never once seen where Cherry was being attacked. Sure she told me in a PM that she felt attacked by what I said. I said nothing that could have been construed as an attack. So who are you sticking up to in her defense? I don't see any malicious attacks on her. Sure people can be over zealous with the flag system. I think once something is flagged then no more is needed, because it is going to get the same amount of attention.

So since I disagreed with her methods I am attacking her?

I hate to even bring it up or even re-hash this thread but it seems that I kinda have to. less

Im not the best at expressing myself at times, I'm certainly not saying that you attacked her, and after re-reading the entire thread I guess my post is a bit out of order possibly. I was more trying to defend her against the number of flags on a couple of her posts (whlst other posts weren't flagged) as well as an all round feeling of her being attacked - my personal feeling. I'm certainly not accusing you or anyone else of attacking her. I was even going to quote part of your post as you pointed out that it was unlike her to act this way.

It's more that I felt like I didn't say EVERYTHING I was feeling over the issue to start with and I just wanted to express what I'd left unsaid.

My honest response to your post on the matter is that it was very well said, in an adult and very poised way. If I could've put it quite as well I may have even said something similar.

I just felt that this thread turned into a sense of bagging cherry when there was someone else being out of order by starting the thread as well as trying to incite more retaliation.

This was certainly not a passive aggressive display by me, just me wanting to get my feelings off my chest. If that makes sense? Im often accused of picking on someone or upsetting them when its not my intention, And I apologise if this is such a case. less

I understand that this post is pretty much closed and I apologise in advance for posting to it now that it has been put to bed so to speak. But as I'm not planning on being malicious or insulting anyone I hope you will all be able to forgive me.

The original post on this thread feels like spam. It isn't asking a question put in a context that can be answered. Something that its author has done a few times of late, making forum posts that lack weight, context and content. It is also my observation that this member of the community has thus far only contributed to the community by participating in such posts.

If I had been one of the first people to come across this thread I too may have thrown in a snarky remark and called it out as spamming./point farming. Because it wasn't even a proper question.

I can't say that Cherry did the right thing by continuing to engage with the threads founder, she could've just flagged it and that's it. Bit the thing is she...like the rest of us is Human. She has emotions as well as the right to express them. She may not have used the 'right' words (In a politically correct way) but a lot of her words echoed feelings that I, and other members of the community were feeling... upset, angered, worried, you know generally negative feelings

She even admitted she was pms'ing in the thread and much more snarlier than normal. She also initially explained that she was not trying to be malicious with her original comments.

Cherry is one of the most giving members of the community that I've personally met. She's written a fair few reviews in her time here, video reviews too, she's participated in community discussions and groups as well as being an active member on the forums.

To me she has been a great friend as well as a priceless editor and mentor. This girl has helped turn my drastic ability to create run on sentences that form into one huge long conglomerate of mess into much easier to read and comprehend passages of text. She's helped to fix my millions of typos, and sorted out my garbage by actually adding some punctuation to it. All of this she has done out of kindness and commitment to the community as a whole.

I personally feel bad that I didn't stick up for her in the first place and am sad over the number of flags that were raised when she was trying to explain herself and that her intention wasn't to be hurtful despite the fact she may have appeared to be rude. Im sad that she got so many flags when the initial, non sensical, spam like post didn't get a single one. Nor did some of the posts that seem to be written with the purpose of enraging Cherry further. I'm even more sad that I didnt speak up because I was afraid of getting banned. I thought America was incredibly proud of your freedom to speech and yet I'm already worried about this post getting flagged.

If this post offends you I apologise,it isn't written in order to inflame this debate. I just wanted to publicly stand up in support of cherry. Im not saying what she did was 100% ok, but it certainly is understandable and she truly is a member of this community in every possible way.

If you wish to respond to my post I'd ask you to rather message me on site or via email (mylovesbuzz on gmaill) as I really would hate for this thread to return to being a problem for Kristi.

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Nice guys, really nice. Mariah, I sincerely hope you don't decide to leave. Our forums aren't always like this, we are usually very nice to new people...I am shocked at what I am reading here; it is mean and was meant to be hurtful and you certainly don't deserve that just because you're curious. less

Excuse me, but this thread has been taken care of already and I do not feel like you need to blatantly attack me over again. I hope you read Kristi's post with the rest of them which stated that the posts don't need to be flagged anymore, and that the situation has been dealt with.

My post was NOT meant to be hurtful as I stated already. You shouldn't assume, it makes an ass out of u and me.

Also, I am fine with you being here mariah, my whole situation was of fear that you weren't 18. It has been taken care of, I am over it. So the rest of you know I was indeed in a mood as I am dealing with some personal things that I do not care to share with you. Let's just say be glad you aren't dealing with them.

Also, mariah, it would indeed help if your posts had more substance to them versus a simple sentence. There are plenty of threads around with information regarding the same topics all over the forum.

I thought Eden was a great community for me to be in as well, I have contributed very positively and will continue to do so, but I am upset at the lack of support/understanding from my side. I know I was out of place and I admitted it and apologized for it several times on here already, but where is the open mindedness now?

Why is it that I am being attacked over someone who hasn't even contributed to the community outside of one sentence threads? I feel like Eden is supposed to be supportive, and Kristi already dealt with this, so I do not feel the need for people to continue attacking me. I am still upset that people continued on after I said I was done with this. less

Okay again, no one, and certainly not me, is attacking you. I do not even think J was attacking you.

This is the last time I am going to post in this thread about this subject. Just because I am friends with someone I am not going to blindly follow them, and I certainly will not join in and throw a stone. Everything I said in my initial post was very positive and kind.

I've learned the hard way before, not everyone is going to agree with me, but when they disagree it doesn't mean its an attack. I hope you do not make the same mistake as I did.

So your not being attacked, and it doesn't matter if someone hasn't contributed as much as you, its not right to just insult someone. Who knows, maybe Mariah will be a 9.9 rated reviewer who goes on to win Contributor of the year?

It doesn't matter if someone on EF is voted Contributor of the year, and written 1000 reviews, helped 19,900 members. they are just as important as Mariah or anyone else in this community (Including you!). We are all equal, as far as I am concerned. less

Okay again, no one, and certainly not me, is attacking you. I do not even think J was attacking you.

This is the last time I am going to post in this thread about this subject. Just because I am friends with someone I am not going to blindly follow them, and I certainly will not join in and throw a stone. Everything I said in my initial post was very positive and kind.

I've learned the hard way before, not everyone is going to agree with me, but when they disagree it doesn't mean its an attack. I hope you do not make the same mistake as I did.

So your not being attacked, and it doesn't matter if someone hasn't contributed as much as you, its not right to just insult someone. Who knows, maybe Mariah will be a 9.9 rated reviewer who goes on to win Contributor of the year?

It doesn't matter if someone on EF is voted Contributor of the year, and written 1000 reviews, helped 19,900 members. they are just as important as Mariah or anyone else in this community (Including you!). We are all equal, as far as I am concerned. less

Okay again, no one, and certainly not me, is attacking you. I do not even think J was attacking you.

This is the last time I am going to post in this thread about this subject. Just because I am friends with someone I am not going to blindly follow them, and I certainly will not join in and throw a stone. Everything I said in my initial post was very positive and kind.

I've learned the hard way before, not everyone is going to agree with me, but when they disagree it doesn't mean its an attack. I hope you do not make the same mistake as I did.

So your not being attacked, and it doesn't matter if someone hasn't contributed as much as you, its not right to just insult someone. Who knows, maybe Mariah will be a 9.9 rated reviewer who goes on to win Contributor of the year?

It doesn't matter if someone on EF is voted Contributor of the year, and written 1000 reviews, helped 19,900 members. they are just as important as Mariah or anyone else in this community (Including you!). We are all equal, as far as I am concerned. less