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dedmiston
Apr 16, 2021Moderator
fj12ryder wrote:dedmiston wrote:I'm sorry, I thought the OP posted this:fj12ryder wrote:
"I feel bad for the OP, lectures instead of helpful advice."
The OP asked for opinions and preferences, and he got them. Some people don't agree with your opinion or mine, and spoke up. No harm, no foul. When you ask a relatively diverse group of people for their thoughts, you may not get only ones that you find agreeable.
I disagree. This isn't what the OP asked for.
This is why so many new members don't stick around.
Everyone, please keep the rest of your responses on topic. I deleted a few of the snarkiest/unhelpful responses.
"Please chime in with your contribution, as I'm actively looking to make a change... thanks!"
Apologies if it seems like I was singling you out. I wasn't.
But...
There's no rational interpretation of the OP's question that justifies the responses he got.
It seems to me like a year of COVID lockdowns and a contentious election cycle have trained many of you to toss your manners aside and treat each other with disrespect. It's a horrible habit to get into, and an even worse knee-jerk response.
My advice is for many of you to snap out of it and behave as if your mother were reading your posts. I think a lot of you would get whacked with a wooden spoon for treating others the way you do. I guess I'm too old to spank, but my mom would still give me an earful if I carried on that way.
Why do we come here anyway? It's supposed to be a fun community where we can safely exchange ideas, learn a thing or two, and have a good time. Instead, it's turning into a sandbox for narcissistic bullies where everyone believes they're right and everyone else is wrong. But maybe that arrow of wrongness is actually pointing back at some of you.
Like I've said to some of you recently via PM, you don't need to get the last word and you don't need to respond to every post. If you aren't confident enough in your written skills to respectfully present an alternative viewpoint, it's OK to keep scrolling.
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