Wow....I think this is the best place to post this:
Yesterday I was out of town all day for my dad's memorial tournament (golf). I did not expect to see go down what went down. I've aways loved this place because the discussion, even when heated, was very respectful. I'm not sure what happened recently that made that slip some. But man I really did not expect to see that and I really hope we don't go far down that road.
I made a post voicing some of my thoughts in the Project 2021 thread, but I almost feel like I need to re-express some of those. But it's amazing to me how people want to rip on someone not perfectly relaying public information. Especially (and I don't think this is a ParkFans exclusive issue sadly) when there's people so stuck in their opinions that they wen't even acknowledge that something like that was said in a public forum. And if you haven't seen it, don't comment on it.
In the particular case a few people posted the link to the video (I know I personally did my best to live transcribe the video); and @Zachary @Nicole and @Gavin (if anyone else did work to set this up I'm sorry for not acknowledging you) have set up an awesome system that drops you off where you last read to, so there's no excuse for missing that. And I get the feeling that when I see some of these posts that the person shooting back didn't actually keep up with the discussion. Like I know it's hard at times. Yesterday I left with 135 in my "What's New" tab. This morning I wake up to 334 in the "What's New" tab. And its a challenge to keep up with the 200+ posts. And I'm not even a mod or admin that has to keep up with it.
I know sometimes it comes off as 'rude' but when I haven't kept up with a thread in some time, or I'm simply too lazy to read all my missed posts, I'll just ask "Where's the proof" or "Where's that from". It's not that I don't believe someone, but it's more that I just flat out missed it. And sometimes it's easy to skip right over something important when you got so many to read through, especially the way some people post links as a single word, or just reference something. Sometimes simply asking someone where something came from, and importantly paying attention to where the source is from is what can help so many of these situations.
/rant
I feel better.
Yesterday I was out of town all day for my dad's memorial tournament (golf). I did not expect to see go down what went down. I've aways loved this place because the discussion, even when heated, was very respectful. I'm not sure what happened recently that made that slip some. But man I really did not expect to see that and I really hope we don't go far down that road.
I made a post voicing some of my thoughts in the Project 2021 thread, but I almost feel like I need to re-express some of those. But it's amazing to me how people want to rip on someone not perfectly relaying public information. Especially (and I don't think this is a ParkFans exclusive issue sadly) when there's people so stuck in their opinions that they wen't even acknowledge that something like that was said in a public forum. And if you haven't seen it, don't comment on it.
In the particular case a few people posted the link to the video (I know I personally did my best to live transcribe the video); and @Zachary @Nicole and @Gavin (if anyone else did work to set this up I'm sorry for not acknowledging you) have set up an awesome system that drops you off where you last read to, so there's no excuse for missing that. And I get the feeling that when I see some of these posts that the person shooting back didn't actually keep up with the discussion. Like I know it's hard at times. Yesterday I left with 135 in my "What's New" tab. This morning I wake up to 334 in the "What's New" tab. And its a challenge to keep up with the 200+ posts. And I'm not even a mod or admin that has to keep up with it.
I know sometimes it comes off as 'rude' but when I haven't kept up with a thread in some time, or I'm simply too lazy to read all my missed posts, I'll just ask "Where's the proof" or "Where's that from". It's not that I don't believe someone, but it's more that I just flat out missed it. And sometimes it's easy to skip right over something important when you got so many to read through, especially the way some people post links as a single word, or just reference something. Sometimes simply asking someone where something came from, and importantly paying attention to where the source is from is what can help so many of these situations.
/rant
I feel better.