the content of the chats

I guess English is sort of a second language in California, so I forgive you, Matty-Cakes.

Jason, I know you have a grudge against this site.  It's become painfully evident over the last week or so since you've honored us with your posting presence once again, but English is not a second language to me or anyone reading the full reason why the chat was shut down instead of picking and choosing the things they want to represent, as you did.  You left out the first line for a reason, but instead of resorting to childish attacks against you like you did when I confronted with you with, oh I don't know, fact, I'll just leave it at that.

I can be as sarcastic an ass as you, kid, I just choose not to.

(more importantly) the content of the chats

All you have to do is click the googlecache link to read the entire quote.

Jason Fulton wrote: All you have to do is click the googlecache link to read the entire quote.

Which would have been all fine and good had you just left the link for others to decide on their own.  But instead, you chose to take a quote out of context, paste it into your post, and used it to support your argument.  That's fair...how?

I'd still consider myself firmly 'pro-JB', by the way....whatever that means. He's largely responsible for my 20+ year comic purchasing habit.

There's a whole bunch of ways one could spin it, Jason.  One could, if one wants to, spin it to mean the "big brother" crap that Marc was talking about. Or, as I know it to be, it's that what was written in chat about anyone and anything couldn't be controlled such that someone could write something that misrepresented someone else, JB and others, and that conversation was cut and pasted with the notation that it was taken from John Byrne's board. In effect, people were using conversations in chat to be representative of attitudes and opinions held by John.  I don't have to explain or defend that.  Take it for what you will.