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Originally Posted by Z Factor
Hi Bob,
Since your thread is related to posting on the forum, it will be moved to the forum news section.
As to your general inquiry, I do not believe anyone has ever seriously suggested doing such a thing. My view, for what it is worth is articulated in the following post;
http://www.zr1.net/forum/showpost.ph...5&postcount=43
From time to time we will have tempers flare or frustrations boil over as you alluded to regarding the heated discussion about the newsletter.
However with most mature adults, they are able to work it out, and cooler heads prevail in the long run.
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Hey Jim, I'd love to read your view, but it is not accessible to me. I assume it's in the member's only section.
In specific, though, the newsletter thing is not new. Do you feel like the various times it has come up, it has been "worked out" and cooler heads prevailed? To me it seems like it just loses momentum, but will flare right up again as soon as the "critics" find a new opening. For example, the current thread where a member asked about newsletters and his membership status. He got his access taken care of, and possibly his questions answered. Who knows though, the "critics" honed in on it and turned it into a bitch-fest. I don't think the OP even posted past the second page of that 9+ page disaster.
The thread has been moved, so I can't copy some of the choicer quotes, but you think that kind of criticism isn't toxic to the forum and the registry? Basically 9 pages of people, who are not members, making demands of the executive committee? Or vehemently critcising their volunteer efforts? How often can this boil over before the burns don't heal?
I will go out on a limb here and say that I think you recognize some conversations are not healthy for the forum. For example you generally have felt that way about criticism over ***'ing out Corvette Forum links. Do you feel that some of the more venomous posts in the most recent (or any past one, really) newsletter thread are less harmful?
I appreciate your insight and opinion, though. You obviously care about, and have taken effort to ensure that, the forum is the best it can be.