VAP
03-18-2008, 10:09 AM
compelled to contribute in trying get a melee squashed so that this forum can get back to normal while simultaneously feeling no similar, like or kindred obligation to contribute at that forum when they've achieved their desired result. It feels eerily akin to once people getting what they ask for then they don't have much, if anything to contribute until/if another fracas is born.
If everyone here would only contribute as much when we're tempest-free as they do when we're tempest-tossed this could be quite the lil forum.
It's kinda boring here now that the protestors have "deservedly" gotten their wish and simultaneously yet inexplicably disappeared, seemingly abandoning the forum for all intents & purposes until the next time it goes south perhaps? C'mon guys, this is what you asked for. This is what you said you wanted. It's kinda like a dog chasin a car, ie; now that you've caught it, whatta ya gonna do with it?
You can't at once say you hate the goings-on during a squabble or how disruptive it is to your forum enjoyment then become high profile absent the remainder of the time. It tends to make ya look like ya really aren't here that much, don't really care all that much or ya don't contribute when ya are here. You can obviously get away with that sort of behavior I guess but there's something fatally flawed and counter-intuitive in the logic behind it.
Here's your forum... here's your chance. Make something of it now. Contribute now constructively so it doesn't seem like your protests were really hollow.
It's as much, if not more, of an obligation to contribute to a good, smooth-running forum as it is to reserve your participation for only the bad times.
Just an obversation on my part and should not single ANY individual out.
If everyone here would only contribute as much when we're tempest-free as they do when we're tempest-tossed this could be quite the lil forum.
It's kinda boring here now that the protestors have "deservedly" gotten their wish and simultaneously yet inexplicably disappeared, seemingly abandoning the forum for all intents & purposes until the next time it goes south perhaps? C'mon guys, this is what you asked for. This is what you said you wanted. It's kinda like a dog chasin a car, ie; now that you've caught it, whatta ya gonna do with it?
You can't at once say you hate the goings-on during a squabble or how disruptive it is to your forum enjoyment then become high profile absent the remainder of the time. It tends to make ya look like ya really aren't here that much, don't really care all that much or ya don't contribute when ya are here. You can obviously get away with that sort of behavior I guess but there's something fatally flawed and counter-intuitive in the logic behind it.
Here's your forum... here's your chance. Make something of it now. Contribute now constructively so it doesn't seem like your protests were really hollow.
It's as much, if not more, of an obligation to contribute to a good, smooth-running forum as it is to reserve your participation for only the bad times.
Just an obversation on my part and should not single ANY individual out.