Message to Jill, Poet, Straight Life, UnQ & thread:
Holy Cow......from testimonials and teary eyes on Friday, to the most serious and adverse and provocative post from Poet in the life of this thread here on Sunday morning.
My thoughts, as senior thread member.
1. straight life posed a reasonable request to limit testimonials.
2. the thread, in general, has chosen to celebrate the fruits of ours shared knowledge, and success therefrom this past week. We, the thread, especially on weekends, have a habit of getting OT, and having more informality. That is the nature of this thread since I have followed it from March. Personally, I think the banter and fun is to be expected after this past week.
3. Poet, you responded to Straight Life clearly and a little aggressively; this could have been done by PM. I agreed with most of your post, but disliked the "kicking ass" part. I thought it unnecessary, and Yahoo-like, and provocative. JMHO.
4. Poet, I fully enjoyed your testimonial and story, as did so many.
5. Poet, I think your post this AM which was a deliberate effort to humble Unc was WAY excessive, and hurts the thread. JMHO.
6. I don't know about the PMs, and hope not to offend recipients of these because I don't have all the facts, but
nevertheless.........may I respectfully encourage my fellow threadsters....:
Enough! Enough! Enough! This is a classic case of escalation, and not necessary. Let it go.
The G & K thread, started by Uncle Frank, is the best because:
1. of the quality of the discussion, and
2. of the quality of the community; no flaming, no hard feelings, usually no obscenities or provocative gestures.
Let's keep it that way.
As for me, JMHO, I respect what Uncle Frank has accomplished, and the very great time he and other Senior members have put in to make this a great thread. IMHO, I believe and respect the prerogative they deserve for the time they have invested. I think that the thread has benefitted from Unc's usually skillful and diplomatic guidance; I think that with ever increasing numbers of threadmates, a little policing now and then is reasonable. JMHO.
I support Uncle's efforts.
I think there has been some over-reaction here.
Let's move on.
Respectfully,
Apollo |
