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Post by sonterra on Jul 13, 2012 13:27:27 GMT -5
As a moderator let me say this, we are all entitled to our own opinions as we train, and this forum is an outlet for those opinions. SOMETIMES people change their opinions after chatting wtih others and that is the point of the forum. REGARDLESS of how much or how little experience a person has, they are still entitled to their opinion.
My point is this, to make this forum a place of conversation, we need to show a bit of give and take and realise that we all have different opinions. I know, I know, the world must be coming to an end for ME to be advocating peace! This used to be my favorite webpage to come to, and now it is like a ghost town.
I will state this, PERSONAL ATTACKS are NOT discussion. If you feel a burning need to personally attack someone as a response, I suggest you leave the post until another day, cool off and come back to it. If a post offends you so much you do feel attacked, please msg a MOD and we can look into it. As well if your entire post is focused on one PERSON rather than the TRAINING aspect of the post, let yourself cool down.
I openly admit I have been an angry poster in the past, and I am working to control that. Lets work together to encourage and motivate people back to this site and back to training discussions!
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Post by cashmando1 on Jul 13, 2012 15:47:03 GMT -5
Good post Tamara! I think it's so very sad that this forum does not thrive like it should. It's almost like people are intimated to post here and that should not be the case!
I would probably post more questions, thoughts, etc. however I never seem to get much response. There is a good knowledge base here, hopefully they come out of hiding. :-)
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Post by zedemar on Jul 14, 2012 2:42:39 GMT -5
I guess that there may be another reason too. I am also MOD at Irinas german DSZ forum. Same situaton like here. Both forums are open for the whole pubic. Everyone in the world can read what one writes. Maybe people have learned, that a public discussion can fall one on the own legs like a rock. Maybe it will help if there would be public and members only parts in the forum. I am meber of other, closed forums too. There the discussion is keen.
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Post by zedemar on Jul 18, 2012 1:54:53 GMT -5
Forum statistics:
2 Staff Members, 9 Members, 224 Guests zedemar, moenster, zaxayo, doberzicke, Sam LaRochelle, Nellie, dobman, paladin, sonterra, silentdobe, k9scott
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Post by sonterra on Jul 19, 2012 10:49:23 GMT -5
Forum statistics: 2 Staff Members, 9 Members, 224 Guests zedemar, moenster, zaxayo, doberzicke, Sam LaRochelle, Nellie, dobman, paladin, sonterra, silentdobe, k9scott I see your point Harald, but I thought the forum had been changed to only members could post?
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