Well that’s the thing. Some of the shit that’s been posted is crazy (even the true stuff, maybe especially the true stuff). Some of it does need to be flagged.
And nobody is to blame except for me. I personally was the person who pressed the button to ban that account (despite desperately wanting to help fix SASH). I personally banned @c.captain too (who fought harder than anyone for a stong us merchant marine). I banned @ombugge despite doing all I can to recruit more international voices to this forum.
I banned them not because they are wrong (well… each does have their moments of wrongness) but because each went over the line. They all said things that could get us sued and this forum shut down. I have banned others whose heart is in the right place too.
Does this make me a hypocrite? Maybe. But this F’n ship is on fire and sinking boys! And in at total F’n conflagration a captain may have to sacrifice a few to save the ship and his crew.
And it is a F’n conflagration. Right now gCaptain is working on stories about 3 takers sinking, a cattle ship that flipped, 150,000 locals protesting bulker aground spilling oil, a cable layer that’s currently in flames, a US dredge explosion, a major uscg investigation starting, multiple hurricanes bearing down on the GOM, China pushing all our buttons, a total collapse of the cruise industry, mass layoffs offshore and at ABS, hundreds of thousands or mariners stuck at sea, and a F’n IMO ‘expert’ who’s telling people that carcinogens are "nature’s skin cream’. Not to mention the shit I can’t post yet like the USN defunding a certain three letter organiztion that’s already in distress, or the day job I’ve taken because covid has closed the local school so I have to start paying private tuition for my kid, or the gCaptain employee who has a lifethreatening medical problem right now, or the gcaptain writer who’s daughter who was raped by a satanic cult in this industry, or my house and boat which is under an inch of ash, or my mother-in-law who jsut died of COVID, or any of my recent calls with people at THE highest level of the US government.
We just don’t have the time to play babysitter or spend all day talking about these lawyers.
WE NEED HELP and it can’t come from me.I can’t even help arrange it. I’m too busy suppressing the giant F’n dumpster fire labeled Maritime 2020.