RedMagic1
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I've certainly run into little fiefdoms too, Sunny. However I am putting forth an analysis of site participation, which is that this message board is not retaining new blood. There is a clear direction to flow. Longtime posters who leave one site, are leaving this one, not leaving Fet and spending most of their time here instead. Some of that is unavoidable, because there are bells and whistles like commenting on photos which are not available here. However, if the tone of thread after thread is petty and argumentative, well, what mature person wants to be part if that? The responses to my post on this thread are a good example. You, LadyPact, and Wolf2Bear had salient points, and we could discuss at length, productively. Other posters chose to cast aspersions about my motivations for making the statement in the first place, or to state "i don't care if new people stay or not, I should be able to say whatever I want, to whomever I want." Those are refusals to engage in concrete discussion, and abrogations of personal responsibility toward producing a better site. It is made even sillier because there were other posters who agreed with my general "fewer personal attacks" suggestion, so this is by no means a personal ego trip I am on. Unless people think that those other posters are my socks. I was on a thread the other day when a poster said to someone (not me), "dont include me in your petty argument, that reminds me of collarme." Is that really what the site wants to be known for?
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Not with envy, not with a twisted heart, shall you feel superior, or go about boasting. Rather in goodness by action make true your song and your word. Thus you shall be highly regarded, and able to live in peace with all others. - 15th century Aztec
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