Perhaps y'all can help me understand something. Why do folks come on here and whine about things on this site that bother them? If you have a problem with a business, do you go to the customers and complain? Not me, I go to the person(s) who are in charge and can answer my questions. Do folks come on here and whine to get attention? To gain sympathy, or is it because they're skeered of me? What the heck is it? I'm assuming they're cowards. I could be wrong, I don't know.
If anyone has a problem with how I run the place and come to me, I'll gladly give the best answer I can. Post it on here to embarrass me, and it's a different outcome.

Some people are natural born whiners.
I dont blame you at all for turfing them-hard to take people always whining/complaining about almost everything.
I think you are fairly lenient with them.

1. Some folks just like to complain, about ANYTHING to ANYBODY.

2. I think you're right about cowards - keyboard cowards. Sit in their little dark spaces and attack, never a worry about repercussions.

Seems some of them like to see what reactions they get.

Seems pretty simple. I do appreciate the site, which you own, and the great wealth of trapping information it has assembled through the years.
Every user, who signed up for membership here, has the choice of what they read and what they post on.
As for being skeered of you, never seen any reason.

Most are looking for attention,they get plenty when they complain about how things are on here. Negative attention doesn't seem to really bother them.
After all even negative attention(to them) is better than,no attention.
Tom

I guess I've come on here to vent a time or two but I've never called out the individual causing me the grief, just the situation. This site wasn't the cause of my grief.

As far as any interaction with Paul, I've had none. Nothing positive or negative. He allowed me in here three years ago and I try to mind my manners. Paul strikes me as a no nonsense type of guy. I respect that.

I poured quite a few Walmart stores. Concrete guys make bricklayers seem kind and cultured.

Some people are just miserable and rotten

Maybe they go through life that way with no push back , until one day they log into T man and the boss shuts them down.....lol

Some people just can't shut their trap. Others just like to argue.

whiners are gonna whine, its what they do. dont waste valuable time trying to figure out what went wrong in their lives, that made them that way. theres too many good people on here to concentrate on, and be thankful for, than to waste time worrying about the "others".

LOL, that makes a lot of sense.

When I worked as a school counselor for a number of years, I found most whiners or complainers are unhappy with their own lives. This can be due to a number of reasons. Many times this unhappiness goes back to something that happened in their early childhood even as far back as year one or two of their lives. Psychologist call it unfinished business that hasn’t been resolved.

Sometimes I think, it's just having a bad day and getting caught up in a discussion on here at the wrong time. I can't count how many times I've typed out a big childish response to something that I didn't agree with only to delete it. Thanking God that I did. Not who I want to be. But it is work babysitting us at times I know Paul, lol.

Your site, your rules, before you've given people the ax I've seen you chime in and give them a chance to correct themselves. This site is fantastic, Thank you. As far as some people go.... Dad always said "I'll give you enough rope to hang yourself with if that's what you want boy".

Good questions BoosMan. And I mean that exactly as written.... Boss of this site.
I'm always struck by someone clicking on a thread and then calling for it to be zapped because they don't care for it's content. Maybe this could be labeled as whining?

I know this answer as It' becoming the norm in our Western world:
I figure I'm smarter than everyone & I am now the arbiter of truth & I don't see value in this & so I declare this thread to be unworthy of my time.
Censorship isn't the other guy. It's us when we say that. I'm right. You're not. Delete you.

Where did the ability to say (even online) that someone else is correct wander off to? It's often seems on this forum, as it is in too many places, people don't discuss.... they tell.
In 140 characters or less.
Tiss the way of this world right now.

My seminary pals from other continents keep telling me (jabbing me is more descriptive) that Americans are a mile wide and an inch deep.
I have a tough time most days arguing that point with them.
So I just say, "Yep, no doubt."
It's probably a liberty, freedom, individual kind of thing I guess.
I suggest in our talks that everyone getting a trophy atmosphere may have developed a mindset in all the trophy getters who came in last place, that last place is the same thing as 1st place.
I wasn't raised in that era, so I can't say.
But whiners may be trophy getters who didn't work too hard to come in last, and they now butt heads, with those who got the same trophy who busted hump and came in 1st?

Blessings and Merry Christmas Paul!
See you on the circuit, Lord willing in 2021 brother.

Mark and Donna

I think, in addition to the reasons above, it's a habit cultivated by the majority of social media platforms. Many people, particularly young people, have never been on a forum that's privately owned by an active member who's available and responds to individuals! Most platforms, even the interest-specific sites, are pretty corporate and anonymous, so it might never even occur to such a person to try contacting the owner or mod directly.

Trapperman is special. I think many people are surprised to realize (if they last long enough) it's a lot more than just another special-interest website. It's a community going back decades, dedicated to a legacy going back centuries, with literal legends of the trade right here among us. Not to mention hundreds, if not thousands of people actually know each other in person. T-man is pretty unique on the internet, IMO, and I consider myself blessed to be a part of it. Thanks Paul.

Love the site. Thank you for having it. I don't post much, but learn a whole lot reading what others have to say.

There will always be a few with problems, but ........

Again, thanks for this site.

In my opinion, people whine to remove responsibility for their own actions – it must be someone’s else’s fault rather than owning up to the fact that “this is on me”. They continue to play the role of the victim, and post on this site in hope others will come to their emotional rescue by jumping on the bandwagon in support of the hollow claim and when the disease becomes contagious, they become gratified in some loathsome way. It’s also an act of cowardice and I would never let it ruin my day.

Lawyers...have convinced losers that that they didn't really lose. Lawyers also try to convince winners they didn't really win, then you have with a online forum a place where Posers and wanna be's can tell everyone that they really are.... Then you have the good old folks, they been around,they get tangled up, they can smell the stink right off and have no problem saying so. And the snowball starts it slow roll down the hill. After about 3 pages it's a avalanche.