William Stephen (Dare?) Griffin

[RattlerGator]

. . . and he's a friend of mine as well . . .

Wut !?!

[peestandingup]

. . . and he's a friend of mine as well . . .

Wut !?!

Exactly.

[Cheshire Cat]

From Folio today.

One of those old friends who made a habit of shredding me: Stephen Dare, in his previous position at Metro Jacksonville. During the mayoral race, Dare often questioned my credibility in posts and whatever on the site, even issuing a moratorium on links to my posts. I never registered for the forum but, like most writers, if someone is writing about me, I'm reading it.

I respect others' opinions, in that I wholly subscribe to their rights to have them, just as I have mine. I'd see Dare around, and the conversations were always cordial, and I expect that if I saw him again, the conversation would still be cordial.

How to reconcile those cordial conversations with the one-sided cyber-antipathy? I don't know. Dynamics are complex and people have multiple narratives. Which leads me, by way of extended preamble, to whatever's going on with Metro Jacksonville.[/quote[ 

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[Adam White]

From Folio today.

One of those old friends who made a habit of shredding me: Stephen Dare, in his previous position at Metro Jacksonville. During the mayoral race, Dare often questioned my credibility in posts and whatever on the site, even issuing a moratorium on links to my posts. I never registered for the forum but, like most writers, if someone is writing about me, I'm reading it.

I respect others' opinions, in that I wholly subscribe to their rights to have them, just as I have mine. I'd see Dare around, and the conversations were always cordial, and I expect that if I saw him again, the conversation would still be cordial.

How to reconcile those cordial conversations with the one-sided cyber-antipathy? I don't know. Dynamics are complex and people have multiple narratives. Which leads me, by way of extended preamble, to whatever's going on with Metro Jacksonville.[/quote[ 

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http://folioweekly.com/slings-arrows,17179

Stephen disliked Tony Gancarski? Looks like Stephen just went up in my estimation of him.

[lastdaysoffla]

Since this thread is generally about the direction of MJ; are articles that would ussually be featured here now only be posted to MC? I check this site all the time but saw the new Urban Construction Update on reddit and it isn't posted here at all.

[thelakelander]

The majority of the front page articles on MJ were written by me over the last 10 years. Due to the behind-the-scenes situation, I will no longer be doing that. In the short term, I will continue to ocassionally share content I produce. In fact, the construction update will be shared here tomorrow. 

[icarus]

For your sakeI'm hoping you had a written agreement with the changes in Fl LLC laws

[thelakelander]

We're not a LLC

[Adam White]

Can you unblock me from the Metro Jacksonville Facebook page?

Stephen blocked me a couple of years ago. He had started a thread about how the "pizzapocalypse" never happened in Avondale, despite people apparently saying it was a sure thing. I had the audacity to point out the he was the person who invented that term and that no one else used it.

[AKIRA]

curious me; if he was so bad for so long, why was he not banned earlier?

[thelakelander]

There has been at least one suspension in the past that I'm aware of.  Things weren't made public.  This time around, someone signed up as Vvamp and ended up lighting a public flame on the issue that they probably regret at this point.

[lastdaysoffla]

The majority of the front page articles on MJ were written by me over the last 10 years. Due to the behind-the-scenes situation, I will no longer be doing that. In the short term, I will continue to ocassionally share content I produce. In fact, the construction update will be shared here tomorrow.

So this site will essentially just be the forum and the occasional article from MC? No more original content here?

[thelakelander]

It remains to be seen at this point.

[FlaBoy]

The majority of the front page articles on MJ were written by me over the last 10 years. Due to the behind-the-scenes situation, I will no longer be doing that. In the short term, I will continue to ocassionally share content I produce. In fact, the construction update will be shared here tomorrow.

All of that will be on ModernCities?

[thelakelander]

All of the daily content I write will be hosted on MC.  Basically, the same thing I've been doing since May 2016.  In the short term, about two or three of those stories will be shared on MJ each week.