Please read...it is a request for everyone to try and make sure there is a respectful comfort zone for all of the people in the community. Much of the ragtag cut'em up search them out diatribe that gets posted to this site has a very real destructive counterside. Yeah, I know I said this before, but it's gotten much worse and more spiteful. Now it may not effect you directly or immediately but it does often become a dig into somebody else. Somewhere down the road we all have interactive connections and old frayed ends diminish everyone's ability to move ahead. As you folks bash heads, investigate your neighbors and gossip about cancers and corruption you obviously know you are going to be making mistakes, push folks around unnecessarily and mislead others. The one that really gets me is folks here who toot their horn over others grief, who are not party to the conversation. That's not being very fair or responsible, it's just boils down to gossiping about someone else's business.
There is a great desire amongst many of you to be the "new community investigative force" to fill the long empty potentially positive job position in the community that in someway most of us truly need. But for the most part, you are not going to qualify, because you've got biases and greviances that you are not willing to overcome or recognize when dealing with matters at hand. There's been quite a few witchhunts lately and I'm surprised some haven't started sharpening the hayforks. I can picture a new diy workshop on how to properly make torches and bonfires. There is a heck of alot of talk about putting your foot in someones backside, but very little talk about people talking about putting their foot forward on community work or even marching in a proper protest action.
I was speaking with someone who is stuck at the center of alot of this hoopla and his comment to me was quite simplistic and really summed it up..."all of it's really hard to take". This was the person that folks in the community should be rallying around, instead they are bent on making him feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. What is it going to take for folks to really laydown a rant about community and fairness that everyone can believe in and have a part of? Currrently all you got going is a list of bad people and bad things that happen to bother you. It's like a bully picking his nose. All it would take is for one out of many of such rants to grow into a knock down drag out fight, or for someone to retaliate either on the person being written about or the writer themselves. The internet is not so hands free that that kind of misfortune can't happen. I know there's probably more than a couple readers who will get to this point in reading with the attitude of.."yep, let's get it on". Unfortunately I fear it would be all too easy to prove my point, but I do hope that folks can pull back and take a breather. It would be nice to end it here and say, don't hurt anybody...but I know some will find a reason to argue on this.