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Message: [QUOTE="swish7, post: 1221604, member: 486"] So, my post offended him? I can see why it would. For the record, I had no idea this person was a player's parent. I do not pay any attention to that stuff. I don't really know how I would know that. If I had known he was a player-parent, I would have posted a similar sentiment, but in a less snarky fashion. That said, I felt my level of snarkiness did not exceed his ('so called fans' etc). This is unfortunate. There are few paths we could take: [LIST=1] [*]Treat everyone the same. Put your big boy pants on when you come here. Ban people for being egregiously disagreeable [*]Treat player's parents in some special way. To do that, they would need to be flagged as such (caution, handle with care) [*]Ban people like me [*]Discourage player parent posting. I know 'Bees has done this in the past. [/LIST] The issue is this. I dislike posts which call out the [B]whole board[/B] for not being positive enough, or not posting a certain way. I find it offensive to be told to post a certain way, with insinuations that I am not a fan, etc. They are 'disagreeable' to me, assuming my opinion matters. My response has always been to make a post like the one above. Now, I am being called out as the one whom drove this person away. Irony is, I came to the thread very late. I am unsure if I had even posted in the 12+ hours leading up to it. And I certainly haven't said anything about BJ specifically in a long while. Whatever caused him to make that post in the first place was not me. I was responding to the call for more PollyAnna-ism, which has been a frequently-recurring sore point during my 16+ years here. And again, I had no idea whom he is, and I'm not sure I need to know that. I've tried very hard to be kinder and gentler. I failed. I jumped into a conversation I had no business jumping into all b/c of the call for pollyannism, the 'so-called-fan' comment, and the '2-years' qualifier, and I dredged up my old snarkiness. Epic fail all around. I've always felt these OPs which bemoan the state of the board, but are not referring to anything specific should be deleted. [/QUOTE]

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