Regarding the Aussiewench Topic

[~kiyah~ 14]

Hello Steve, good to see you here. When Ewok referred to an older member who would have known!

i thought it was age related, i was waiting for almaty

is this "THE STEVE" that founded vj?

yep .

That made me lol literally....now stop I am supposed to be working, I will never get away with being on here if I have fits of laughter!!!

Oh that really won't work with charles...he will do it more just because you said that!

~Kiyah~

[Jenn! 918]

This is what happens when everything is a secret. Some people here seem to have a natural trust for "authority". Things have been swept under the rug so many times here, I'm having an extremely hard time giving the benefit of the doubt.

Aussiewench has never done anything that would make me doubt her.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

Oh that really won't work with charles...he will do it more just because you said that!

~Kiyah~

[Fandango 1,439]

Dev, show me one thing that I've said here to complicate matters. Don't lump me in with the name calling cos I did no such thing.

Count to ten, Rebecca. You're spiraling.

But the drama is not going to solve anything. So in order for us to come to a resolution, we should all act as the adults we are.

Rebecca, I think you need to breathe deep and count to ten. Your position is weakened with personal attacks.

Seriously, please calm down.

Are those not true? All I ever said was we should calm down and let Ewok have the time to explain and then I was jumped on with personal attacks. There is no need for those, is there?

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

Aussiewench has never done anything that would make me doubt her.

ditto.

[steve 27]

From what I can tell both sides have been honest however there seems to have been very little direct communication so both people have reached different perspectives of the same issue (two sides to a coin). My guess is that they both have done what they thought was right given their perspective. If I can do anything here today it will be to unify both perspectives and open dialogs. My guess is that both sides will suddenly see things more similar once they can converse about the details and how things were likely interpreted differently.

Edited May 10, 2007 by steve

[chri'stina 190]

I am not picking sides at the moment. Just reading and seeing what's going on. I didn't even know Aussie had made a website. A lot of this is news to me, but I am sort of indifferent to it all maybe. At the moment I just want to read and see what happens and not have an opinion.

Hello fellow VJ'ers . I just got an IM from Ewok asking him to help out here if I could. While I am not aware of all the details I was aware of some events in the past that from what I can tell led up to this conversation. In any case if I can provide some insight both on this and historically please let me know .

While I am here, hello to all my old friends that are still around here!

Hello!

[steve 27]

Dev, show me one thing that I've said here to complicate matters. Don't lump me in with the name calling cos I did no such thing.

Count to ten, Rebecca. You're spiraling.

But the drama is not going to solve anything. So in order for us to come to a resolution, we should all act as the adults we are.

Rebecca, I think you need to breathe deep and count to ten. Your position is weakened with personal attacks.

Seriously, please calm down.

Are those not true? All I ever said was we should calm down and let Ewok have the time to explain and then I was jumped on with personal attacks. There is no need for those, is there?

Back when I posted more I would in this case just want to remind you both that we are all friends here that are chatting over what is an issue with many sides. We all mean well with the things we say and personal attacks are silly. From time to tmie I jab my brother when I disagree but in the end we still love each other... just like on here we all share a common experience and friendship and we should always remember that in the end, we are a small group in the world that was brought together by the US immigration process. That makes us a community and hopefully friends by default. Maybe I am just an optimist but I think that is the case .

[steve 27]

I do have some insight I can share that my help answer some questions. Did anyone want to ping me? I have 30 more minutes or so I can be online. I will be back later as well when I can too.

[Fandango 1,439]

I'd like a biggie size insight please, hold the mayo

hey steve, we're all in chat...you coming?

Edited May 10, 2007 by LisaD

[steve 27]

I can't get in... it is working for everyone else?

[Reynaldo 0]

Yes...

[steve 27]

Everyone come here (I know a backdoor that I can still get into that apparently ewok left open!) (seriously ewok remove this webpage this later when you read this)

http://www.visajourney.com/chatroom/

I can get in there.

[TracyTN 237]

I can't get in either, but that's because of my stupid Java.

I will attempt to restate RJ's question:

She wanted to know why regular board members can come here and disrespect the people here and the board - flaming and harrassing - while Lorelle (a long standing and well respected member) tells another member about her board and is stopped.

Essentially - we feel Lorelle deserved better than she got, regardless of the situation.

Edited May 10, 2007 by TracyTN

[JODO 2]

WOW! Hi Steve, it is amazing what you have done here! So nice to meet you