OK then. . . carry on. . . with. . . whatever was going on here. . .and who can tell at this point. 
Aww, don’t be so modest, dude. You do your best. 
Life sure can be strange. When this initially sprang up on the boards I thought, “What a meaningless pile of mutual attention whoring. I bet this amounts to absolutely nothing.” How wrong I was.
I’m glad you’re back, prr. I don’t particularly recall the details of the incident and I’m not going back to find them.
What would you have had the administration do? Ban both posters for participating in the financial exchange?
Such offers will be summarily deleted in the future, but it was an unprecedented (and non-repeated) event that caught us off guard.
That is not really fair, Sam. If prr had simply begun posting again, we would have been swamped with posters (or Pit threads) asking “how” and why he was back. Announcing the resolution publicly eliminated a lot of that trauma (and relegated the snide comments to this thread) and Tris was as good a choice to make the announcement it as Lib or prr would have been.
Maybe by TPTB, he meant the SEC or something.
Thank you.
Tris
Exactly. I’ve thought about resuming posting for the past few months, ever since **Liberal ** proposed it to me, but didn’t care to stir up my fellow Dopers with the resulting and inevitable Pit threads. I decided this weekend to ask **Tris ** and **Liberal ** to do me the favor of stating pre-emptively their support for my resumption, and they kindly complied.
And thank you, too, Tris, for subjecting yourself to criticism that otherwise would have come my way. You’re the last person who deserves a Pitting over this–blessed are the peace-makers.
Or cheesemakers. (I can’t hear clearly back here.)
Well cheesemakers should clearly be blessed. That is without question.
Echoed. While the usual busybody suspects fretted and gnashed their teeth over the whole thing, raising as much of a shitstorm about it as they possibly could — Oh, the humanity! How could someone be doing something I don’t approve of! — **Tris ** stepped in to ask how he could help. And he was a faithful steward of his promises. He received the money, held onto it, and then released it to you when I told him to. You, to your credit, made good use of it. What you did with it could help make a difference in all our lives. You have grown and learned from the experience, knowing now that faith is not a choice but a result of life experience. I hope you’ll join me in ignoring the bleached moralism of a few malcontented hypocrites.
Oh, lord. We’re still talking about this?
Certainly not; otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.
The free market at work, two consenting adults agreeing to a mutually beneficial transaction. What’s the problem?
Credit where credit is due: that, sir, was some mighty fine pwnage.
I am pleased and proud to report that the first I heard of prr’s return was seeing his moniker as OP of a baseball thread in the game room.
Welcome back – glad y’all have kissed and made up.
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I love this place.
Ah, but obviously he didn’t literally mean cheesemakers, but manufacturers of all kinds of dairy products.
And what about the Greek? The Greek? Apparently he’s going to inherit the earth.
This week on Survivor: Straight Dope…
Geez people.
The parties involved have forgiven each other (to ya’lls credit) and we still have people pissed off enough at something that didn’t even affect them that they have to come in here a year later to express their anger?
Forgive and forget and all that.
Thanks to Tris, welcome back PRR, and congrats to Liberal for reaching out when he did.
Carry on.
This has to be the least satisfying conclusion since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which Harry confronts Voldemort and
they decide to “hug it out, bitch!”
So first you ask why I’m upset, and then you add that you will not let this happen again in the future. Thus proving that this event should have never taken place.
This ‘event’ didn’t happen quickly. IIRC, it took at a week to work out the details.
Personally I would have suspended the poster that made the offer to buy someone’s silence for at least a month, and handed out a warning to the poster who was willing to handle the transaction.
Yes, it is a year later and yes I’m still disgusted at the ‘performance’ of the mods and admins. Time does not change the fact that they sat on their hands with the thumbs up their asses. The fact that this won’t happen again the future is proof that what they themselves know they handled that poorly.
And Liberal, what you did was the ultimate ‘lowering of the tone’ of the boards and it was, to me at least, a huge violation of rule number 1. And this “Oh we kissed and made up, everyone should be happy and if they aren’t they are big poopy head” attitude shows how little you have grown. You insulted everyone on the board with that stunt. Some people didn’t care, some of us do care, but it was an insult just to the same to each and every person on the board.