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[Boy Rates]

Marlen posts a question starting with "Hello Native Speaker"

Some good-hearted guy gives a great answer to her question. She's happy. He's happy. End of story, right?

NOT!

First a guy (who has nothing in his OWN profile) can't resist picking on the native speaker.

[Lorikeet]

Perhaps you didn't notice my name as a moderator, Boy Rates. As someone who felt confident in telling Advoca how he should respond to students, you certainly have not taken your own advice to heart. Those who frequent this forum have heard what I have stated as the policy concerning posts. I delete all the posts that are advertising. I try to leave most of the posts, although on occasion I ask Dave's advice. It was Dave, for example, who deleted some posts in one of the threads that some students complained about.

Most people feel comfortable contacting the moderator using a private message. I respond to all private messages. As I have stated before, I do this for free. I check the Forum at least twice a day. Your nasty post, which I will let stand, doesn't even have a link to the post in question.

Perhaps you should practice what you preach. (A common saying, for those students reading, which means you should act the way you say other people should act.)

In addition, I don't catch every post that may be a problem. There is a button on the right side of the posts that has an exclamation point on it. You can push that to report a post, which will bring it to my attention. In addition, you can mention something to me in a Private Message.

[Boy Rates]

I'm sorry you're offended, Lorikeet, but many others have "been there, done that" with no result. I wrote to Dave. No reply. Others have written with the same result. Mods all say there are no rules about posts unless they're ads. So . . . what's a "Boy" to do? Amen.

[Lorikeet]

[Boy Rates]

I'm sorry you're upset, but I have no apology for my posts. I think you'll find that many here are very relieved at the result.