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Who will take up the gauntlet?
I think its time we stopped harping on what has gone before, everyone has acknowledged the decline of our forum and I see this thread as a chance to learn from the past and move on. Sure its good to clear the air - get stuff off our chests so to speak, but there comes a time when it needs to finish, it has to be put behind you and you start looking to the future rather than staying static and perpetually wallowing in a misery of our own making.
Personally I am sick to death of the pity parties, rants, nasty comments, arrogance and self importance that get spouted here, just like the majority of you, I can't see the point of it all - its a forum, a community of people for goodness sake not a 'live-in' hotel where room service caters to your every whim or desire. You aren't going to like everything that is said or done here, that's just the nature of the beast, but you can control how you react to it. Those who want respect should start trying to earn it instead of demanding it or thinking it is their right, respect is only something that can be given - not taken!
I see three options or choices we can make,
1. A happy community all here for the same reasons - meaning the forum and community is bigger than the sum of its inhabitants and we no longer give space to those that would bring it down.
2. Stay the same – meaning; continue to be miserable and infect everyone else with the negativity and nay saying
3. The bickering can continue and decline - meaning a lot of people will no longer will frequent the site, it could even get to the point that the site owner has had a complete guts-full of this continual crap and closes the site. If I were him I would be seriously contemplating that right now.
What do you all want to do? The hard part is staff aren't our parents and each one of us is going to have to figure a way forward, all by ourselves, because no one else can do that for you, its a choice you are going to have to make on your own.
I throw down a gauntlet – who is willing to take it up and make this place as good if not better than it was, leaving the egos at the door , returning it to the original intention of the site - which is about a game and not the personalities that come here?
I think its time we stopped harping on what has gone before, everyone has acknowledged the decline of our forum and I see this thread as a chance to learn from the past and move on. Sure its good to clear the air - get stuff off our chests so to speak, but there comes a time when it needs to finish, it has to be put behind you and you start looking to the future rather than staying static and perpetually wallowing in a misery of our own making.
Personally I am sick to death of the pity parties, rants, nasty comments, arrogance and self importance that get spouted here, just like the majority of you, I can't see the point of it all - its a forum, a community of people for goodness sake not a 'live-in' hotel where room service caters to your every whim or desire. You aren't going to like everything that is said or done here, that's just the nature of the beast, but you can control how you react to it. Those who want respect should start trying to earn it instead of demanding it or thinking it is their right, respect is only something that can be given - not taken!
I see three options or choices we can make,
1. A happy community all here for the same reasons - meaning the forum and community is bigger than the sum of its inhabitants and we no longer give space to those that would bring it down.
2. Stay the same – meaning; continue to be miserable and infect everyone else with the negativity and nay saying
3. The bickering can continue and decline - meaning a lot of people will no longer will frequent the site, it could even get to the point that the site owner has had a complete guts-full of this continual crap and closes the site. If I were him I would be seriously contemplating that right now.
What do you all want to do? The hard part is staff aren't our parents and each one of us is going to have to figure a way forward, all by ourselves, because no one else can do that for you, its a choice you are going to have to make on your own.
I throw down a gauntlet – who is willing to take it up and make this place as good if not better than it was, leaving the egos at the door , returning it to the original intention of the site - which is about a game and not the personalities that come here?
