Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

Pam, I agree with everything you wrote.

And it's always nice to see you too :)) I always wonder though why normal people like you keep coming here, even if rarely... I guess you're genuinely interested in Poland :) Pity there isn't a better place to discuss it though...

Btw, Admin, I've just checked - on LiveJournal alone I wrote over 1300 posts and that's only one place where I've discussed with Russians and Poles. There was also inosmi.ru forum, inosmi blogs, the infamous Ursa's forum (delph provided a link to that place - they've translated some posts from PF over there), a forum for Russians in Poland and many, many comments and notes on Polish-Russian blogs on the Polish internet.

So, in comparisment, 1452 posts over a 10 years span on PF doesn't prove such a great fascination, I'm afraid. As I wrote - it could be more.

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]


Yes, yes, of course. PF is, however, very "special" lol
Admin, you asked (I'm guessing it was you) and you got an answer. You don't have to agree with my choice of forums or anyone elses, but I'm curious then - what are your examples of excellent forums? Not "special" ones, but "excellent".

Or maybe it's only PF that's so great and perfect that doesn't need any improvements? If that's the case then why it's doing so poorly in comparisment to those "not so special forums" which don't work in mobile?


Not many. I didn't post much on foreign figure skating forums because I had my own figure skating forum to attend to as an admin and a mod. It was very time consuming. I wasn't posting much on dws.org.pl because I wasn't that interested in WWII in general - I was mainly discussing WWII topics with Russians on Russian and Polish-Russian forums and blogs. I'm not that crazy about cosmetics to write about them on daily basis but wizaz.pl is a great source of information and a forum for women in general. I'm simply interested more in other topics. I didn't even register on socnet.com - I'm just reading it from time to time - I'm not an American SEAL or a Ranger, you know :)))

These are simply examples of good, successful forums that are being run well, in my opinion.

As for PF - I'm guessing that I made much more comments on various Polish-Russian and Russian forums and blogs than here.
Don't get me wrong (and don't get offended), Admin, I think PF always has had potential. But I think you're wasting it. God knows why...

As for my leaving PF for good - I think only once, but I came back when it improved for a while. Like I did now (johnny_reb and Dirk suspended - yay!).

I'm not sure what being "polite" has to do with anything. What kind of "value" johnny_reb, Dirk, Rich Mazur and the peado provide to PolishForums, for example?

I don't think Facebook was mentioned in this thread. I don't even have an account there lol

No, Admin, it's here that the peado is allowed to post again and again despite being banned a few times already. Can you explain this? Is there no such thing like a permanent ban here?

And the number of my posts on PF - it could be more. And this forum could be better. Just saying.

Btw, Rich, what do you have against those forums I've listed exactly? All of those forums have Off Topic sections where you can discuss what you like. Only on dws.org.pl you can't discuss politics and religion. I'm not in favour of such solution personally (although our Admin tried sth similar here to an extent at some point - no religion discussions in Off Topic or sth, if I remember well) but I guess they had their reasons for making that rule.

On fsuniverse.net you have this section, for example: fsuniverse.net/forum/forums/politically-incorrect.77/ The topics seem to be more varied than in PF's Off Topic section. The thread about Trump's presidency has 425 pages, wow...

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

Of course it was premeditated. It's the second time he did it. And yet he's allowed to post here again and again.
Is there no such thing as a permanent ban on this forum? And if there is, what one has to do to deserve it? Kill a forum member? Rape a child in front of an internet camera and post a video of it on PF?

Sorry, guys, but I'm shocked by what people got accustomed to on this forum. For God's sake...

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

Sorry, Ziemowit, but I've used and read many forums on the internet and among all those forums I've seen only two places where a convicted pea**e would be allowed to post his pe**hilc rants and where mods would let someone like that come back as a guest poster on regular basis after being banned under a few usernames already. One of them is PolishForums.

Don't lie that I accuse PF of being the most evil of all the forums in the world. I don't. But it's of poor quality, often run down by people who have no interest in Poland and trolls and only lately, with the return of some older forum members, did it start to look more like a forum about Poland, imho.

How am I splitting hairs? Many posters have been complaining about the quality of PF for years, including you, pathetic hypocrite.
And don't call me "dear Paula".


Even if, then men lie more than women :D Sorry.

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

Sorry, Rich, but I don't follow. You'll have to explain.

"This forum mean this forum" - what?

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

@Rich, as for your falsehoods, you wrote many idiotic crap and even lies/misinformation (I even remember your fan johnny_reb caught you red-handed once) on this forum. Noone will go through threads now looking for it. But do you remember when you wrote for the first time, I think, that "women have lying in their genes" or sth like that? It was on the day when you claimed you're leaving the forum for good. I gave you then links to articles about many research proving that men lie more than women. Did you see it?

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

@Rich, I wrote "the threads created on the main forum" (Poland & Poles related). Not in Off Topic or Feedback sections. It's obvious that threads in Off Topic and Feedback sections don't have to have anything to do with Poland.

If that's your mission in life (thanks for being honest why you're here) then go to a leftist forum and don't spoil this forum for those who want to discuss Polish matters. And you apparently think not much is worth knowing considering how ignorant you are.

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

Why would you think that, dolno? :D
It was johnny_reb who once compared PolishForums to a bar where men should be able to behave the way they want and a woman shouldn't tell them off or sth, when a woman, Atch, berated him for his behaviour. But often PF was more like a mordownia than a regular bar where locals can hang out, or even (shock and horror) a woman could visit once in a while without slipping on some "very manly" pi$$ or puke :)

This is what I alluded to in my comment.

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]


How many threads would be gone, according to you, Rich? Feel free to count them for me (search the threads created on the main forum during the time I've been registered here - since 2008 :))

Btw, this isn't "my" rule :) It's the Admin's rule. And he made this forum to be about Poland and Poles, not me :)) I wouldn't mind if it wasn't about Poland and Poles at all. I can discuss other stuff too. It's just the forum name would be misleading to those who are actually interested in sth Polish :)

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

@Rich, normal people don't try to win a debate by all means necessary. You're a demagogue and a sociopath. That's why getting into a debate with you is usually simply pointless and tiring. You often seem terribly stupid, ignorant and immature. That's why other posters often give up or don't engage with you at all - they ignore you (like I did many times).

People often come to forums not to win debates but to learn something, exchange info, broaden their horizons even. I've learned and understood a lot during my discussions with Russians or even just by reading Russian forums, for example. But I had the curiosity and the will to learn. You don't. You just come here to vent and troll. You're often useless as a poster and make the user experience worse for others.


I didn't write that I'll never come back. I wrote last time that maybe I'll visit from time to time and I do. I simply won't be a more regular poster here anymore.

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

Sharing opinions, Rich? You wrote that "forums are to vent, argue and win." I have an impression that for guys like you it's mainly about venting and trolling.

The main problem with you and your fellow Americans is, though, that this isn't a forum about US, US politics, Trump, the Clintons, liberals, American women or women in general even.

This forum is about POLAND and POLES and POLISH matters. There's an Off Topic section on this forum but clearly it isn't enough for your kind.


I did quite some time ago. "Burning out" isn't the problem. Admin is the problem. He always has been. This is why I think this forum will never change for the better. Admin likes it this way, the low quality of this forum doesn't bother him - that's the problem. And he's stubborn as a mule (a stereotypical Pole then, eh? ironically... lol). This is why I doubt I'll ever be a regular poster here ever again.


Wouldn't it be better and more simple to just change the forum name into "US and American people" or "General Politics"? lol

@Iron, do you think there are no conflicts on those forums I listed? No sharing of opinions, no arguments, debates, etc.? lol I give up...

Yes, I know this is Admin's place and that he likes it this way. This is why I'm the one leaving, obviously.

Feedback / What makes an excellent forum? [119]

I know, I know, Rich :) You're one of those "prolific sociopaths and trolls" that I mentioned. People like you love places like this one. Oh, yeah, and the p**os.

But I didn't mean that PF is supposed to be exactly like those forums I listed. Admin/mod asked for examples of excellent forums so I gave them to prove that there are better quality forums out there that are popular and that it's possible to make such a forum. I don't really have any hope that this forum will ever improve. They often aren't even implementing their own rules on here, let alone being inspired by some other forums... :)

Rich, and where do you go if you want to discuss Poland and Polish matters? Oh, wait, you aren't interested in those, I forgot... :)

Work / Business in Poland - should I expect some dirty tricks? [26]


He's a peadophilic psychopath who likes to groom girls in their early teens on the internet and to get into fights (and ends up in prison as result).

He was banned under various usernames on this forum already, so I don't understand why moderators let him troll PF as a guest poster.

Dubaidude, don't pay attention to anything this guy "Ojczyzna" writes - he has serious problems with his head.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]

@Rich Mazur, I've been registered on this forum for 10 years and I can tell you that you're wrong. All kinds of people have been nasty and childish on this forum no matter whether they were in Poland or not.

Also, complaints about people being nasty and childish coming form someone who makes comments like this: polishforums.com/off-topic/wife-capable-saying-sorry-83422/#msg1642515

...and who calls liberal voters in the US "liberal manure" and claims that he doesn't debate with "women and children" are rather peculiar to say the least.


Well, you know, on one hand there are all kinds of stupid and prejudiced people in this world... Do you remember InPolska who claimed that 99% of Poles think that black people are monkeys? lol I have no doubt that she wasn't trolling and actually believed what she was writing about Poles. On the other hand, it is possible that Rich Mazur is here to provoke people and is enjoying all the undeserved attention that we're giving him :)

As for his claims that he's Polish...
Of course he can be lying. It's the internet.
He claimed to know about some stuff in Poland from the communist times and that, according to him, should prove that he's Polish. That's no proof, obviously. He could quote such stuff from some book about communist times or which was written during those times.

He could be a Russian soldier who was stationed during commie times in Poland. That could explain his poor Polish and the fact that he can quote something from Mickiewicz (+ his blind Russophilia and the repetition of Russian propaganda). In the past I discussed with a Russian woman whose Polish language was native-like and basically flawless despite the fact that she lived in Moscow and claimed that she never visited Poland in her life. She knew Polish literature well. Also other Russians her age were able to quote Polish literature, mainly poetry (just like Poles who discussed with them were quoting Russian literature during those Polish-Russian discussions). Their generation was reading books in Polish, watching Polish films - it was their little window to the West during the Soviet times.

I knew an old Pole, probably around Mazur's age, who also left Poland during 50's or 60's as a young man and lived in the US all his life. He had no problems with Polish language whatsoever so I do have a hard time believing that someone who was born, raised and educated at a university in Poland would somehow forget the Polish language.


There are, of course, people who call others "trolls" or "racists" or "libtards" or "feminazis" just because they don't like what those people are writing, but it doesn't mean that you aren't a troll.

A troll is someone who posts comments mainly to anger or upset people ("yanking their chain", as you put it) and to do that trolls may write inflammatory, controversial opinions. Trolls also sow discord and you, Rich, are very aggressive, offensive, you talk down to people often and you're "наглый", as Russians would put it. For me personally, you're very off-putting as a person, even putting aside your views.

Of course, it is possible that you're not trolling on purpose, maybe that's the way you are, but that would mean you're one weird assh0le at best and a sociopath at worst. You've been on this forum for a very short period of time and yet you have written 579 comments already and managed to antagonise many people. Sociopaths have a lot of energy and their driving force is to dominate others. They use extremely negative words. They feel empathy to a lesser degree than other people. Due to their manipulative tendencies it is difficult to tell whether they are lying or telling the truth. Other characteristics are irritability, aggresiveness and lack of genuine remorse.


So why did johnny change his mind about Rich Mazur... again? From what I can see he's been calling him a troll recently again. What happened?

Btw... Another characteristic of sociopaths is that they may have strong opinions which they then drop to adopt the opposite point of view when it's convenient or makes them look good.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


So are you complaining to the right people? A few expats, some Polish-Americans and even fewer Poles on an American internet forum are the right people to complain to about "all things Polish"? Because that's what you guys have been doing for years on this forum lol

You know, I get it, I understand - it makes you feel better, it gets out the frustration, but it doesn't exactly make the world go forward, especially when someone is spending whole days on an internet forum. Just saying :)

Travel / Poland - never again [593]

@Dougpol, are we talking about the same nation? Poles - who claim that complaining is their national sport? So why are they complaining so much if they're so "proud to be indifferent and seem immune to all the **** around them"? lol

And what are you saying here? Everything in your home town is not PERRRFECT?? How's that even possible?! lol


Then it's not that bad in "Poland B" after all - at least we have toilets at railway stations, I guess... lol

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


OK, it's in Lesser Poland region, not exactly in świętokrzyskie region in particular, but it's close enough to my city to be on a similar level of wealth and development, I suspect.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


I've watched a video blog on Youtube of a young Ukrainian woman who moved to Poland and she really likes this "Pan" and "Pani" thing. To each their own, then, I guess.

Different cultures have different forms of address. Do you realise that?
Would you be whining about forms of addressing other people in Japan too? Would you have a problem with the fact that people are bowing to each other over there?


Well, that's the first I've heard of it. I live in a city in the same region where Radom is and there usually was toilet paper at school and when it ran out I always had tissues, just in case, that you could buy at a school shop (I always make sure to have them when I travel abroad too). And there was always soap. I don't know how you can steal soap if it's in those soap dispensers these days? lol

And a missing door in a school? lol Have you been in some kind of a village? I've heard that Radom is a sh1thole, but I've never been there and I thought that such opinions stem from the rivalry between Radom and my city. It's hard to believe that it's that much worse than Kielce, tbh.

As far as I can remember the toilet at the railway station in Kielce is free, the toilet in the park where I always go when I "have to go" in the city centre is free too (it wasn't the case in the past, but it's been like this for some time already). So, things are clearly changing.

One should also take into account that świętokrzyskie region (where Radom is) is one of the poorest regions in Poland. There are differences between regions in Poland just like there are differences between regions and states in the US.

As for "there is no restroom at the Gdanks Oliwa station" - so there's WiFi but there's no restroom? lol I've googled and I've found an article from November 2017 saying that there was a renovation planned for this railway station. Did it happen? They didn't make toilets during the renovation? lol Maybe you somehow managed to miss them?

As for paying in case of an emergency in Polish hospitals:

rynekzdrowia.pl/Finanse-i-zarzadzanie/Szpital-udziela-pomocy-dopiero-potem-pyta-o-ubezpieczenie,134315,1.html

"- In ER a patient without health insurance has the same rights like the others. (...) Noone is being sent away because of not having a health insurance. We are obliged by the law to treat in a hospital any patient whose life is in danger."

If you don't have a health insurance you get the check after the treatment in the ER.
So, why were you told what, as you claim, you were told at that hospital? I have no idea. I guess those are the following possiblities:

- you're a troll and you're lying;
- the person working there was an ignorant idiot who didn't know the Polish law and shouldn't be working there;
- because of your poor Polish you've misunderstood each other.

If you had a travel insurance that you were sure covered the treatment you needed and you were refused this treatment then I guess you should've demanded to see this woman's boss or call the insurance company or, I don't know, call an embassy and ask what's that all about.

expat.com/en/travel-insurance/europe/poland

"In the case of hospitalization in Poland, the insurance company should be able to cover the expenses directly so you do not have to pay from your own pocket and then ask for a reimbursement."

In which city was that hospital, btw?


I must say this is fascinating. What a plot twist! Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy of this? Basically from the very beginning when johnny_reb appeared on this forum he was complaining of how anti-Polish this Polish forum is, he was criticising Harry, delph, jon357, etc. for bashing Poland and Poles and making slurs about Poland and Poles... Johnny even made a thread in the Feedback section questioning whether the Admin of this forum is really Polish and suggesting that I should take this forum over as the administrator because I have "constructive information on and about Poland" as "I'm Polish" and demanding the moderators to be Polish :))

And now johnny is defending and supporting Rich Mazur despite the fact that Rich is so prejudiced against Poland and Poles that he won't even visit Poland again! lol That makes Rich more prejudiced against Poland and Poles than Harry, delph and jon357 put together.

What's also interesting is that johnny_reb on page 2 of this thread in his post #31 on the 20th of May called Rich a "liar" twice and suggested that he's a Brit.

So, what has changed, johnny, since that 20th of May?

@Rich Mazur, don't be surprised that people here suspect that you're a troll. I've been registered on this forum for 10 years and I've seen many, many trolls on PF already and many, many people on this forum suspected both guest posters and registered users of being trolls or someone else than they claimed to be, no matter whether they were anti-Polish, pro-Polish or altogether neutral.

People here don't suspect that you're a troll because of your anti-Polish comments. There's been a lot of anti-Polish comments on this forum and a lot of anti-Polish prejudice for years. It's nothing new. Not everyone is suspected of being a troll here. You are, because you do seem to behave like a troll. You give an impression of an intelligent and educated person but quite a few of your comments strike me as glaringly stupid. I wouldn't make an opinion, for example, about a country and its people after spending just 3 days there. I wouldn't judge a whole nation based on a few people on an internet forum where majority of members aren't even Polish lol I wouldn't go to some rundown neighbourhood in Detroit or look at the tents of the homeless people in Los Angeles or talk to some gun nutter in the South and say: "OMG, this is horrible! The US is crap, American people are crap! I'm not ever going to visit the US again!!!" LOL

But that's me, you know :) As for you, I don't know whether you're a troll or just stupid and prejudiced or maybe a Russian troll or maybe just a very spoiled and jaded grumpy "1st worlder". PF is a mental place and everything is possible on this forum, tbh lol

I know one thing for sure - noone is making you visit Poland, you don't have to come here nor to this forum. Poland will do fine without you - I've seen many video travel blogs on Youtube made by people from the West, the East, Asia, Africa and wherever, who visited Poland and they liked it a lot.

You don't have to like Poland or Polish people. If you don't like it here, then don't come here - simple.

Btw, Rich, out of curiosity, have you ever been in any other country besides the US and Poland?

Off-Topic / Help for Stalker - threats from an ex-boyfriend [19]

@ClickClick, I'm sorry I don't have much time right now, but I'd just like to let you know that there is a law against stalking in Poland (apparently not everyone is aware of this on this forum), against revenge p0rn and defamation (it doesn't have to be something untrue, it's enough that it's humiliating for another person). One also can't publicise other people's photos without their permition - it's illegal.

You would have to write in a more detailed way about his threats towards your girlfriend. Why is she so afraid of him? Did he say that he's going to hurt her if she doesn't leave you? Does she have any proof of his threats - sms, e-mails? Did she tell her family, friends and people at work about this guy's behaviour? Does she have a father, brother, male cousins, any male friends?

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]

Once I was sent a letter from a Polish court demanding me to show up at a hearing at that court as, according to the letter, I kidnapped my children to the Netherlands and the father wanted them back :D The problem was that I think I was right after college at that time, I had no husband, let alone children lol and I was younger than the woman in question. The only thing that matched was my first name and my surname. I was shocked, I didn't know what to do so I showed the letter to my dad and he called the court. Some woman told him that a private detective found me lol and that my dad should call somewhere (I don't remember where) and explain the "misunderstanding". My dad got angry, he told her that he's not going to pay even 1 złoty for a phone call to repair their mistake and that if they don't sort it out by themselves he's going to call TVN and the whole of Poland will laugh at their court lol The woman asked him not to get upset and I guess it worked because I didn't get another letter and I wasn't arrested or anything :))

Love / So I got a call yesterday from those Polish teens who tried blackmailing me [22]

True, I did find it surprising, shocking and depressing. I hope you're right though - that it's a way to catch them, because other explanations would be too disturbing...

Love / So I got a call yesterday from those Polish teens who tried blackmailing me [22]

@jon357, you'd be surprised what paedophiles and ephebophiles post on much, much bigger and much more popular public English-speaking sites than this forum. I know I was.

Law / Question about Polish public nudity law [54]

@Ziemowit, I honestly thought that even your pettiness and vindictiveness has its limits, but I see now that I was wrong.


As far as I understand his mom lives in Poland now.

@Maciek, take O_WELL's generous offer and go to a therapy.

Law / Question about Polish public nudity law [54]

@Plgski, he wrote on the forum that he was deported to Poland from the US for breaking the law in the US, so I guess that means he's a Polish citizen.

Love / So I got a call yesterday from those Polish teens who tried blackmailing me [22]

Well, I definitely don't know how to get someone's IP address besides asking an admin of a forum or mods for it.
Do you, johnny?

Law / Question about Polish public nudity law [54]


Wow, I guess he picked the wrong forum for his peadophilic rants... lol


How do you know that a crime hasn't been committed yet if you don't read his comments?

Law / Question about Polish public nudity law [54]

Sure, O WELL, I'll send you everything in a private message.

As for publishing it on the forum - would the mods/admin be OK with this? If yes, then I'll post the links.

Law / Question about Polish public nudity law [54]

O WELL, I think peadophilic rapists have to register with the local police in Poland too after they're out of jail or sth, but I'm not sure...

Btw, actually there is a sex offender registry in Poland since not long ago - but it's just the beginning. It apparently lists only the most serious offenders and not all of them can be viewed by everyone (it's better than nothing though and I welcome this change). Here it is:

bip.ms.gov.pl/pl/rejestry-i-ewidencje/rejestr-sprawcow-przestepstw-na-tle-seksualnym

But this guy committed his crimes in the US, so I'm guessing he wouldn't be put on the Polish registry even if his crimes were considered "serious" enough?

Law / Question about Polish public nudity law [54]

Thanks, johnny.
When I type in his first name and surname nothing shows up. But there's a disclaimer on this site that the registry may not be complete. Also, he appealed to the court in California not to be put on the sex offender registry and I don't know how that ended because the opinion of the court on this matter isn't published in full (you have to pay to see it whole or sth). So I guess it's possible he isn't listed at all?

Not sure how this matters though - there are articles about his cases, his mug shots - it all matches his story on PF and his photos that he posted here.