As the war against humanity heats up and the sewer rats continue to lose ground to rising human awareness there seems to be a new dynamic on this obscure forum that may best be summed up from a comment from someone who has been following the progress:
Don, I might be wrong but, it seems there’s a war going on in your forum. Weird!
I think the foundation of the forum is: simple gifting, simple boosting, helping each other out and exposing the shitbirds. The more threads and posts that pull one away from that, the less genuine members will feel like posting - simply because what they are reading is not resonating with them so they don’t identify. That won’t take away from their gifting, but I think it will make for a poorer forum and, ultimately, it will resonate less with the readers too.
What do you think?
My hope since the beginning of the forum effort (June, 2001) has been that an administrator’s job is mainly to stay out of the way and let a forum handle itself. I’m a beta personality and prefer to hide in the crowd, after all. Alpha dogs have a very different makeup and when they won’t make a supreme effort to keep their competitive natures in check they’ll naturally want to climb to the top and this involves steopping on others’ heads along the way. The old parasitic world order favors alpha personalities for a good reason and I think that was clearly stated above. When an alpha personality sounds off most of the rest of us, who are beta types, will fall silent. Since this international forum is intended to share reports for the record from a variety of people it’s counterproductive for the admiinistrator (me) to allow the alpha personalities to hold sway over this effort.
It’s funny that my horse, Rico, is like I am. I spent last winter standing by him during feeding time so that the alpha horse (Carol’s Magic–the metrosexual [Image Can Not Be Found] ) wouldn’t keep pushing him out of the way. It wasn’t a wasted effort because now he and I are close. Animals teach us an awful lot.
So, there’s a new policy for EW: any time I get wind of someone posting frivolous material and/or grandstanding I’m going to simply remove his posting privileges. I say ‘he’ because there aren’t any females behaving this way on EW. That person can then contact me and we’ll discuss the issue, privately. I’ve given out plenty of warnings so nobody’s going to make a case that I’m being a jerk and I feel certain that many of our readers and also the substantive EW contributors who shy away from being exposed to the alpha dogs’ potential ire will resume posting good reports again.
I won’t publicly humiliate anyone unless he has done real and intentional harm to any of us. I’ve only done that in two cases since the beginning. So the only one who would know that his posting privileges has been removed will be the one who has disregarded my request to stop posting frivolous and/or misleading material. Everyone here has good intentions, of course. Good intentions and five bucks gets you a nice, fancy cup of coffee.
~Don