
Originally Posted by
SFG75
I don't think ccat and ggiese "get it" that what a lot of people have a problem with is not their gripes and complaints. Rather, it is their methods of taking good threads-introductory ones, ones about a member having a child, and then bringing the heavy baggage of these gripes into it. Some members do want to remain neutral, but there is no question that they are agitated at seeing this stuff aired out across the board when it should be entirely in one forum-the politics forum. Part of self-moderation is that more than just a few voices are heard. So far, the only voices that carry sway on this board, are the voices of about five people. While the two guys who have posted have since retracted parts of their statements-it would be foolish to ignore their concerns that other probably hold, but haven't aired out yet since they are not confrontational people. Those people don't fight with members, they just simply go to other boards like CW where membership is huge and fighting is way down. Coincidence perhaps?
On another note, look at my 1,000 post contest thread. I start the board's first contest out of a desire to bring something to the table and to get to know other BOTLs. Yet, it's polluted with personal vendettas and garbage posts that ridicule me. In no way in that thread, has anyone else been baited by me. In fact, the opposite is true. Yes, I too want to see passes, trades, and splits. But you aren't going to see that if the members who will do such things have their offers smeared and plastered with off-topic gripes and inappropriate posts.
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