Closing a Thread...typical power-trip!

[corpsmanUP]

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WTF? Can we not have a sensibly heated discussion on topics and opinions without worrying about Tkim the moderator from hec coming here and closing a thread? I am referring to the thread we had going about DO's in MD residencies....scroll down if you want to find it because it is now locked.

As you can read, it got heated, it cooled down a bit, and hec, we even apologized to each other...Junkie and myself, and I think it was another beneficial discussion. I certainly didn't call the principal to come to the playground, and I doubt Junkie did. I think there needs to be a better way of addressing heated discussions that to simply close them, especially coming from a moderator who is NOT our moderator.

This kind of thing really makes me question who chooses the moderators and this is not the first time I have felt this way about the esteemed Tkim. This person has had a power trip for years...closing threads unnecessarily.

99% of the time, our threads here in the EM area have no controversy at all. I think that is why OUR moderators normally take a silent-backseat stance and stay out of heated issues because they eventually end with a nice online "hug".

 

[EM Junkie]

WTF? Can we not have a sensibly heated discussion on topics and opinions without worrying about Tkim the moderator from hec coming here and closing a thread? I am referring to the thread we had going about DO's in MD residencies....scroll down if you want to find it because it is now locked.

As you can read, it got heated, it cooled down a bit, and hec, we even apologized to each other...Junkie and myself, and I think it was another beneficial discussion. I certainly didn't call the principal to come to the playground, and I doubt Junkie did. I think there needs to be a better way of addressing heated discussions that to simply close them, especially coming from a moderator who is NOT our moderator.

This kind of thing really makes me question who chooses the moderators and this is not the first time I have felt this way about the esteemed Tkim. This person has had a power trip for years...closing threads unnecessarily.

99% of the time, our threads here in the EM area have no controversy at all. I think that is why OUR moderators normally take a silent-backseat stance and stay out of heated issues because they eventually end with a nice online "hug".

Didn't call the principal here....

:hug: right back at you Corpsman!

On a side note, I never anticipated when changing my screen name that I would forever be called "Junkie" for short. Oh well, I'm off to buy some crack now...

 

[spyderdoc]

It wasn't me. I had nothing to do with it....Quinn and I are supposed to be the mods here, but I guess the higher up admins reserve the right to come here and moderate as well. Bummer, huh...

Didn't call the principal here....

:hug: right back at you Corpsman!

On a side note, I never anticipated when changing my screen name that I would forever be called "Junkie" for short. Oh well, I'm off to buy some crack now...

 

[tkim]

My apologies for overstepping my bounds. Threads reopened and it's hands off for me in this forum. Sorry docs!

 

[BKN]

WTF? Can we not have a sensibly heated discussion on topics and opinions without worrying about Tkim the moderator from hec coming here and closing a thread? I am referring to the thread we had going about DO's in MD residencies....scroll down if you want to find it because it is now locked.

As you can read, it got heated, it cooled down a bit, and hec, we even apologized to each other...Junkie and myself, and I think it was another beneficial discussion. I certainly didn't call the principal to come to the playground, and I doubt Junkie did. I think there needs to be a better way of addressing heated discussions that to simply close them, especially coming from a moderator who is NOT our moderator.

This kind of thing really makes me question who chooses the moderators and this is not the first time I have felt this way about the esteemed Tkim. This person has had a power trip for years...closing threads unnecessarily.

99% of the time, our threads here in the EM area have no controversy at all. I think that is why OUR moderators normally take a silent-backseat stance and stay out of heated issues because they eventually end with a nice online "hug".

Actually, I had kind of thought something was going to happen ever since match day. Wasn't sure whether it would be C-man or Panda. 🙂 You born EPs haven't had enough stress in your lives, so you had to make your own.

Maybe you could arrange to start your residencies early!😀

 

[EM Junkie]

Actually, I had kind of thought something was going to happen ever since match day. Wasn't sure whether it would be C-man or Panda. 🙂 You born EPs haven't had enough stress in your lives, so you had to make your own.

Maybe you could arrange to start your residencies early!😀

BKN your insightfulness continues to amaze me....

I have 2 months of vacation, so what do I do with it? Relax? No, I've started a big research project, built a towhome, ordered a closet system and blinds for said townhome without consulting the wife, and started WWIII on DO's vs. MD's. I'm off to Hawaii in 2 weeks, maybe I can learn to stop creating stress for myself!

Thanks for the insight! 👍

FWIW the research project is something that kept getting put off in medical school, so I am doing it now to get it out of the way for residency (now it counts as a "scholarly project")!

 

[corpsmanUP]

Wow, something I did causes a chain of events that actually led to change!! Screw EM, I am headed to Washington! Oh, but I forgot, they don't appreciate honest, in your face, people there. They only appreciate idiots with accents who easily entertain the masses with their stupidity.

Thanks Junkie, big @@hug@@ back to you as well. You remember back in elementary (depending on where you went of course!!), when some a$$hat called a person with more melanocytes by a not so friendly word...right? Only people from that same minority were truly allowed that type of language recall?

No Junkie, I don't think you are a DO hater, or chubby for that matter!! 😉 (no more than myself of course, although these weeks off I have killed so much beer I have regressed back to Milwaukee's Best Light to save funds and calories!!).

BKN, you know me so freaking well!!!!! That's why I couldn't come to El Paso...I never could have got away with anything under your expertutiledge!!!

 

[BKN]

BKN your insightfulness continues to amaze me....

I have 2 months of vacation, so what do I do with it? Relax? No, I've started a big research project, built a towhome, ordered a closet system and blinds for said townhome without consulting the wife, and started WWIII on DO's vs. MD's. I'm off to Hawaii in 2 weeks, maybe I can learn to stop creating stress for myself!

Thanks for the insight! 👍

FWIW the research project is something that kept getting put off in medical school, so I am doing it now to get it out of the way for residency (now it counts as a "scholarly project")!

June 1 1973 after finishing all of the basic sciences in 11 months (Baylor- early experiment in accelerated curriculum, now it's 15 I think), we had a month off before clincals started. I got bored and guilty after 4 days off and went and arranged for a special elective in one of the community health clinics. That's how I know.

I'm better now, I've actually sat in my office writing the PIF for a whole month without seeing a single patient or teaching a student or resident. Stand back, I could blow any minute.😀

 

[SoCuteMD]

June 1 1973 after finishing all of the basic sciences in 11 months (Baylor- early experiment in accelerated curriculum, now it's 15 I think), we had a month off before clincals started. I got bored and guilty after 4 days off and went and arranged for a special elective in one of the community health clinics. That's how I know.

I'm better now, I've actually sat in my office writing the PIF for a whole month without seeing a single patient or teaching a student or resident. Stand back, I could blow any minute.😀

I feel like this will be me during my fourth year. I'll probably move home for the months I can and work for my dad...or anybody else who will employ me!!

Any more than 2 days off at a time, with the exception of an occasional long weekend and I start going just a little nuts. I worked for two years before med school and when the office manager was cutting my last check she called me into her office to ask why I hadn't taken any vacation except for a day here and there (interviews!). In my defense, I had a vacation planned at one point but we got an extension on a grant and so I had to stay and work instead of going to Hilton Head.

 

[ERMudPhud]

It wasn't me. I had nothing to do with it....Quinn and I are supposed to be the mods here, but I guess the higher up admins reserve the right to come here and moderate as well. Bummer, huh...

I think the Uber-Mods must have gotten ahold of an old NSA cast-off computer and substituted things like MD vs DO for plutonium in its hot list. That way they know whenever a little brush fire flares up. You think if I change my sig to MD vs DO, CRNA vs MDA, PA vs MD, IMG vs FMG vs USMG ER=triage monkey the computer will blow a fuse trying to flag and close every thread I post in? Better yet change Apollyon's sig since he's way more prolific than I am. There's no way that old NSA computer will be able to keep up.

 

[Apollyon]

Better yet change Apollyon's sig since he's way more prolific than I am. There's no way that old NSA computer will be able to keep up.

Hey, I'm just quoting my favorite person - me! And there's a BUNCH of other, crazy people on SDN with twice as much as me!

Even so, if you notice, the sig only appears once a page, if you post more than once on that page.

Very clever....

 

[Apollyon]

Um...on re-reading, I think I missed the point!