Andrew,
i disagree with your concept that this post is in alignment with your mission for boonex Dolphin. First of all, i see you made an attempt to have run this from your personal "wordpress" blog. Now you are right, "you" and "your staff" are as you state allowable to post whatever makes your (shoes lace), however, engaging those members who are bound by the rules to become enraged and purport that one person is worse than another because of any personal preference see more is absolutely out of line. you could very well have ensured that any posts went to your "wordpress blog" and this community would not have to be affected by anybody elses personal beliefs.

If you wanted this to be known, if you wanted this to be shared on a non-controversial level, you could have taken other measures to get this information out to the community and if interested they could have posted on your "wordpress blog".

Now to even have to absorb the fact that you publicly state that you and your staff are exempt from "rules", that would tend to lead me to believe that this is an anarchist rule. I personally believe in lead by example and precedence. I have never agreed with do as i say do, not as i do mentality.

Now if you wanted to find out how others feel about eating greens or eating meat there are tons of other locations on the web where there are minds seeking that information. Those of us who participate in this community are here for the betterment of the application, and our personal lives, desires, cravings, religious preferences, or anything else not related to making this the best social networking application available open source on the internet today, just has no place on this site when its not related to site specifics.

I have had one complaint about the post i made regarding SC adopting the dolphin as the state mammal, where i felt that was a relavent cause and associated with the adopted dolphin Lighting, but certainly was not a confrontation topic, and did not raise the dander of any of the members.

The topic in general is controversial, and anything that would cause one member to think negatively of another member because of any choice or preference they have regarding their personal lives just has no place on this site.

Regarding the fact that you declare that you and your staff are exempt from rules, i just dont get that concept at all. I will think about this some more, but I cannot fathom how this is conducive to your MISSION as you state, is it your intent as a converted veg, that all who live on this planet do as you do, and have the choices in life that you have? if that were the case, then we could all live on the premise please make that clear. otherwise, i think you could have redirected any posts on this topic back to your "wordpress blog".

Regards,
DosDawg