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I'm leaving IF...

No one respects my posts and there are some people that keep complaining and wasting my time about my age and how they think I don't belong on this site when I expect replies of the ACTUAL QUESTION I ASKED. I will not further on continue on this site if these people continue disrespecting my threads and keep complaining. So if you have been disrespectful and leaving rude unexpected replies on my threads then you need to admit it, apologize and do not post disrespectful and harsh comments.

If you haven't, I thank you and appreciate the respect for me. You don't have to apologize.

***Grabbing some popcorn****

Oh, this is going to go over real well...

To be honest, I really don't think a post like this is going to get you anywhere other than more complaints and comments about your age. Certainly I can't see anyone coming here and apologizing to you for anything. I understand that you are probably upset about the comments but that is all part of posting on a public site. You take the good with the bad.

Now I'm just going to sit back...

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Originally Posted by odinn7

***Grabbing some popcorn****

Oh, this is going to go over real well......

What?

We are wasting your time?!

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Originally Posted by J_9

We are wasting your time???!!!!

I specifically said that if you don't post rude comments you don't have to apologize. If you have, than yes you are wasting my time because I want answers that have to do with the question and I am not just coming to read replies that aren't appropriate to the thread and will make me mad with the person. So equally likely, yes/no.

You are demanding for us to apologize to you? Really?

Actually, you are wasting OUR time. I am old enough to be your mother. I am also a moderator of this site. This site was created for adults, not 9 year old children.

You have also been suspended not once, but twice. Do you need to be suspended permanently?

It appears you have never been taught how to respect your elders young lady.

You have a bad attitude and you really have given some bad advice. You're 9. You shouldn't give advice to adults. I only wish you were in my class, because I would teach you some!

Or she would get paddled!

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Originally Posted by J_9

Or she would get paddled!

Unfortunately, not in CA. Maybe I need to move to your neck of the woods...

Are you gone yet? Really, some kids...

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Originally Posted by tickle

Are you gone yet? Really, some kids.....

Excuse me? See that's the talk that refers to how RUDE these people are. :( :( :( :( :( :(

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Originally Posted by catgirl101

Excuse me? See that's the talk that refers to how RUDE these people are. :( :( :( :( :( :(

There you go again... you need to get one of your parents on here. I wish they would read your posts. I wouldn't let my kids on here... period.

Calm down, catgirl. This is Auntie WG talking now. What do you want to accomplish as a member of this site?

Let me get this straight. You want people to apologize for telling you the truth, because you don't like to hear it? Suck it up princess, that's the way the world works, and that's why a 9 year old child doesn't belong on an adult site, because you can't handle the truth. You can't handle people disagreeing with your childish inaccurate advice.

I think leaving is the best idea you've had yet.

Bye. :)

Now wait just a minute, Alty. Maybe we can come to a peaceful agreement here. I'm hoping catgirl will come back online and answer my question.

Catgirl, everyone deserves respect, unless they do something to lose it.
You lost it with me when you called some poor guy nerdy, gross, and said he should go back to kindergarten, all because he can't say S.
THAT is disrespect.
Apparently you can dish it out but can't take it.
A 9 year old needs to understand that a site like this is not for countless juvenile questions. Yes, pre-teens come here on occasion with troubles about home life, or homework.
But you are pushing the envelope with what you expect, and don't even get understand of the responses.
Your profile says you are an expert at all sorts of things. While confidence is good, pretending to be an expert at several things when you are 9 years old is going to hurt you when you get older. A real 'expert' struggles for years to gain that title.
Good luck wherever you go next.

Joy, I can't greenie you since it's not an option, but if I could, I'd give you a million greenies. I completely agree.

Fact is, this is an adult site. I don't mind children coming here to ask questions, but answering questions, pretending to be an expert, is not okay. We built a reputation on this site for giving accurate answers to questions. I for one will not let a 9 year old brat with no respect, ruin that reputation.

None of her advice has been accurate, the majority of her questions are nonsense (which is what I'd expect from a 9 year old), and she never should have been allowed to post anything other than questions. She is not knowledgeable enough to post advice. No 9 year old is. Yes, it's an age thing. At the age of 9 she doesn't have enough wisdom or knowledge to answer questions on this site. That's a fact. It's a well known fact.

I said it from minute one, I'm not comfortable having a 9 year old child on this site answering questions, and I don't get paid to babysit. None of us do.

Maybe in 10 year she could come here and answer teen questions. Maybe she'll actually gain the expertise she claims to have. But until then, I don't think she should be on this site. I'm shocked that she hasn't been permanently banned already. She shouldn't be here. It's not healthy, it's not okay!

I wouldn't apologize even if she were 20, so that has nothing to with her age. Fact is, her advice is horrible, her posts are silly, and everything I've posted to her has been dead on accurate. Did I sugar coat it? No. But this is an adult site. If you're adult enough to post, then you have to be mature enough to take it. If you can't accept someone pointing out where you're wrong, then leave. So no, I won't apologize for treating her as an adult, because I told her time and time again that this is an adult site, and if she can't take being treated like one, she should leave.

In other words, leaving is the only option for her. Good bye catgirl, and good luck. Come back when you're an adult and actually know what you claim to know.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Now wait just a minute, Alty. Maybe we can come to a peaceful agreement here. I'm hoping catgirl will come back online and answer my question.

I don't think so WG. I stand by my posts. This is a child, a child claiming to be an expert. She's disrespectful, she has no knowledge about the things she claims to be an expert in, and she's creating more work for all of us.

This isn't a babysitting service, this is a Q & A site, not a playground, and not a daycare.

I feel sorry for this kid. Where the heck are her parents? Why are they allowing her unlimited access to a computer? Have they read some of the things she could be accessing on this site?

This isn't a place for children, especially disrespectful children like the OP. This thread says it all. I only wish everyone could see some of the posts she wrote that had to be deleted. She needs to grow up, and she seriously needs a good whooping.

I think, now that she knows what we expect, we could give her one more chance -- if she agrees to stay off the relationship sites and be careful that her comments are worthwhile and her advice is good. I'm thinking, though, which boards would be good ones for her to be on?

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

I think, now that she knows what we expect, we could give her one more chance -- if she agrees to stay off the relationship sites and be careful that her comments are worthwhile and her advice is good. I'm thinking, though, which boards would be good ones for her to be on?

Not many.. maybe helping with k-2 homework.

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Originally Posted by teacherjenn4

Not many..maybe helping with k-2 homework.

Now, now. Hmmmm, am trying to remember how I was at age 9. What she could do is post an honest question she has about something (how to do a math problem?), and then answer politely and intelligently to those who respond. I wonder if she has memorized all her times tables.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

I think, now that she knows what we expect, we could give her one more chance -- if she agrees to stay off the relationship sites and be careful that her comments are worthwhile and her advice is good. I'm thinking, though, which boards would be good ones for her to be on?

I would agree, if she hadn't already been given multiple chances to change not only her attitude, but the bad advice she posts, and the boards she posts on.

She's been told ad nauseum to stop posting on adult boards. She hasn't listened. Why would she listen now? She's been suspended twice, she's been given infractions, and she learned nothing from them. That's arrogance, and has nothing to do with her age.

She doesn't belong here. She can't follow the rules, she's been given chance after chance, because she's a child. I think her chances have run out, especially in light of this thread.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Now, now. Hmmmm, am trying to remember how I was at age 9. What she could do is post an honest question she has about something (how to do a math problem?), and then answer politely and intelligently to those who respond. I wonder if she has memorized all her times tables.

WG, I have a 10 year old. A ten year old that knows more about animals than most adults, especially rabbits. She could post here, and unless she posted her age, no one would ever know.

I told her about catgirl, and the issues we're having with her, and I asked how she'd react if she posted a reply, and someone said "you're wrong". My daughter said "I'd prove that I'm right. I'd post facts. I'd show that I know what I'm talking about, and if that person can prove that I'm wrong, I'd apologize and learn something".

Catgirl has been given a lot of leeway because of her age, we're a lot kinder when we correct her than we are when an adult posts bad advice. Does she learn? No. She comes back with attitude, rudeness, and continues to post bad advice.

Yes she's 9. I don't think a 9 year old should be on this site. My daughter isn't allowed on this site because of her age, not because she doesn't have knowledge, but because she's not an adult, and shouldn't be here.

Catgirl fails on both, she has no knowledge of the things she posts about, and she's too young to be here. She should have been banned permanently after her first post in an adult forum giving bad advice, or her first post on the animal forum giving bad advice. People don't come here to get bad advice from a child, they come here expecting someone that knows a cat from a dog, to answer their question.

Catgirl is not suited to answer these questions, or any of the questions posted on this site. . She wasn't banned only because she's a child and no one on this site wants to hurt a child. But now this post, demanding an apology when there's nothing to apologize for, is the last straw. She's arrogant and clueless.

She needs to get off the computer and actually learn something. Her parents need to start monitoring her computer use, and start imposing boundaries. She needs to learn that her opinion is not the most important thing in the world, especially when she's proven wrong. She needs to learn to accept criticism. Until she can do that, she shouldn't be here.

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She needs to get off the computer and actually learn something. Her parents need to start monitoring her computer use, and start imposing boundaries. She needs to learn that her opinion is not the most important thing in the world, especially when she's proven wrong. She needs to learn to accept criticism. Until she can do that, she shouldn't be here.[/QUOTE]

Exactly! I wish her parents knew what she was doing, and I would love to see her grades. I wonder if she has any friends.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Now, now. Hmmmm, am trying to remember how I was at age 9. What she could do is post an honest question she has about something (how to do a math problem?), and then answer politely and intelligently to those who respond. I wonder if she has memorized all her times tables.

I don't see a problem with her helping with k-2 homework. I believe she is in 4th grade, so maybe K-3?

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Exactly! I wish her parents knew what she was doing, and I would love to see her grades. I wonder if she has any friends.

That's the saddest part about all of this. Her posts are a cry for attention. Obviously she doesn't have anything better to do but post on sites. I'm sure that we're not the only site she posts on. She has 71 posts (more if you count the ones that were deleted, and there were many) on this site. She spends way too much time on the computer posting silly questions, and answering questions she has no business answering.

Where are her parents? My kids are allowed monitored time on the computer every day, and most days my kids don't even utilize that time. If they do, it's spent looking up stuff for their homework assignments, or playing an age appropriate game. All of their computer time is monitored by me and my husband, and they're 10 and 14, soon to be 11 and 15.

How does a 9 year old spend this much time on an adult website without her parents knowing? Bad parenting. Bad parenting doesn't create good children. Just saying.

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Originally Posted by Alty

That's the saddest part about all of this. Her posts are a cry for attention. Obviously she doesn't have anything better to do but post on sites. I'm sure that we're not the only site she posts on. She has 71 posts (more if you count the ones that were deleted, and there were many) on this site. She spends way too much time on the computer posting silly questions, and answering questions she has no business answering.

Where are her parents? My kids are allowed monitored time on the computer every day, and most days my kids don't even utilize that time. If they do, it's spent looking up stuff for their homework assignments, or playing an age appropriate game. All of their computer time is monitored by me and my husband, and they're 10 and 14, soon to be 11 and 15.

How does a 9 year old spend this much time on an adult website without her parents knowing? Bad parenting. Bad parenting doesn't create good children. Just sayin.

You're so right. My boys were watched all the time on the computer until they were in their upper teens. There were no chances to be taken under my watch!

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Originally Posted by teacherjenn4

I don't see a problem with her helping with k-2 homework. I believe she is in 4th grade, so maybe K-3?

Considering her other posts, I'd have to ask her to prove that she can actually help in those areas. She doesn't follow direction well, she doesn't like being told she's wrong, she doesn't like listening to the rules or following them. So, if she can prove that she's a good student and can actually help in those areas, I'd be fine with it, but I would ask that she be put on probation, have someone monitoring her posts, have every post approved before it's posted, before I trust her advice in any area, to be accurate.

After all the crap she's pulled on this site, especially this thread, she would really need to prove herself before I trusted her to continue posting on this site, even in a child forum.

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Originally Posted by Alty

Considering her other posts, I'd have to ask her to prove that she can actually help in those areas. She doesn't follow direction well, she doesn't like being told she's wrong, she doesn't like listening to the rules or following them. So, if she can prove that she's a good student and can actually help in those areas, I'd be fine with it, but I would ask that she be put on probation, have someone monitoring her posts, have every post approved before it's posted, before I trust her advice in any area, to be accurate.

After all the crap she's pulled on this site, especially this thread, she would really need to prove herself before I trusted her to continue posting on this site, even in a child forum.

Maybe I can give her some math problems. I can't see any other place she can contribute. Can you?

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Originally Posted by teacherjenn4

Maybe I can give her some math problems. I can't see any other place she can contribute. Can you?

I can't even see her helping there. Most of the math problems posted on this site are way above what a 9 year old can do.

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Originally Posted by Alty

I can't even see her helping there. Most of the math problems posted on this site are way above what a 9 year old can do.

I was thinking that and that's why I said maybe k-2 since we don't get any of those questions ;).

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Originally Posted by teacherjenn4

I was thinking that and that's why I said maybe k-2 since we don't get any of those questions ;).

LOL! In other words, you're saying she shouldn't post. ;)

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Originally Posted by Alty

LOL! In other words, you're saying she shouldn't post. ;)

You've read my mind. :)

Notice the little line under the member's name. Catgirl has left the building on a permanent vacation.

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Originally Posted by J_9

Notice the little line under the member's name. Catgirl has left the building on a permanent vacation.

Good call. :)

She really shouldn't be here, and it's not only because she gives bad advice, which is expected at the age of 9, but also because she's a child, and this isn't a place for children to be hanging out. She needs to grow up a lot before she should even think about joining a site like this, or any other site.

There's one reason and one reason only that my children aren't on this site, and it's their age. I know that if they joined all the long term members would look out for them, just like we looked out for catgirl. But no one can spend all day every day making sure they don't go on threads they shouldn't be seeing, don't answer questions they shouldn't be answering, and don't post one silly question after another. It's not a playground, and it's not a daycare.

When my kids are old enough I'll give them permission to join this site, but until then, they don't belong here, because they're children.

I really do think that we should have an age restriction. The only problem is enforcing it.