Originally Posted by
Deb
I was a member of Isaacson's Fpnuts from its inception until it faded out when he moved to Facebook. I think there might have been a couple of occasions when he launched into one of his well-known diatribes or never-ending arguments - if you can call what he does arguing. For the rest of the time he behaved surprisingly well, allowed debate to run uninterrupted and, in all, did a fine job. Nobody knows better than me how obnoxious he can be and almost always is but credit where credit's due, he made Fpnuts the place to go for serious pen discussion and sharing of information, free from the nagging of the sturmbannfuhrers of FPN. I don't know how he behaves in the Facebook version. I don't go there.
I had to look up sturmbannfuhrers thinking that it meant barnstormers and therefore I couldn't get the context, in case you are as dumb as I am it is a reference to a Nazi SS military rank equivalent to Major and prone to shock tactics.
I saw evidence of that line of thinking on FPN today, on this particular day when the entire World is looking at Minneapolis I saw one FPN poster saying that they were going to use a black pen and then reflect on the world as they completed their journal. That post lasted all of 5 minutes until FPNer Praxim complained and had it taken down because he thought it was political.
Good ol' FPN, the grey porridge of pen sites.
I have only had one interraction with Isaacson, someone I knew had a big early Parker collection to sell as one job lot, it would have needed deep pockets to do the deal. I put the two in touch, I have to say the he was civil to me, and appreciative.
I know that he had a big bust up with Wim on FPN and saw the revenge porn links that Isaacson made for Vacumania links from FPN but I never understood the issues behind the bust up.
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