The truth is no one is blocked from posting on the PGCA site. If a person has enough brain cells to turn on a computer, they have enough brain cells to sidestep the whims of the site's Moderators. The only hard and fast rule is that you have to use a real name.
GregSY: While I was at Mayo Clinic two years ago my name was blocked somehow,for some undisclosed reason (and no one had the balls to even tell me). When I got home and back on my own computer the supposed preexisting cookie did not allow me to be signed in automatically by simply hitting "Favorates," like works here. I tried to sign in and was rejected; when I tried to re-register, thinking perhaps my cookie had expired or been purged by defragging or some firewall glitch, the effort resulted in a message that I was "blocked." Meanwhile, I had greater issues to deal with for about 6 months...
Finally, when my situation improved, I decided to test the system and signed in under a
nom de fusil--Irving Quasvera--and, as a newbie, I was welcomed with open arms. So for a little fun I started playing it like a violin...and my persona started coming through...and some honchos started to suspect...and then poor old Irving got blocked and all his threads disappeared. It is a fact that, as you say, any one with brain cells can side-step the censorship, but why bother.
The day my new book was released was the day that the PGCA website became redundant for me (I'd rather be here). It would have been nice to have access for the prior year to simply respond to posted queries about my new book in process at the publisher, and to give updates to my almost 200 pre-publication subscribers. But that's water over the dam. The book is launched and all over the Internet. Amazon.com has at least 22 dealers cutting each others' throats, and, of course, there's eBay. My work is done. I could easily get on parkergun.org, but why but in where I'm not welcome?
The anomaly of this is that virtually no one with any Parker credentials ever chimes in on parkergun.org and the Officers/BODs (with one exception) avoid it like the plague (although they watch it like hawks; or is it middle-school hall monitors?). Meanwhile I see many name players on this site who have books in print and others who obviously know their stuff. Remember the Damascus barrel thread with over 40,000 hits? Somebody could precipitate that thread down and have a book. EDM
