Dry as a Bone, Part 2

[Major Hurt]

I think it's a matter of differentiating between spirited, constructive debate - or disagreement - and shit-disturbing for the sake of shit-disturbing.

To be fair, I have no idea what transpired between Canuck and the Officers of the Club that ultimately necessitated his banning. I was rather friendly with him, and never had any sort of reason to even mildly dislike him. The last time I communicated with him was around the time he forfeited his position as an Officer of the Blitz. The impression I had at the time was that he was just rather burned out on CM, and otherwise occupied with some other issues. I was bummed to see him go, as I genuinely like the guy, but I was sure he had his reasons.

About his banning (which I was unaware of until last week), what can I say? I don't know anything about how it came about and therefore am completely unqualified to comment on it. What I do know is that in all this club's existence there have only been a handful of similar bannings which leads me to merit the powers that be with some benefit of the doubt.

But I admit, while I occasionally browse the Blitz MB, I don't post much as I'm a relative newbie, and have seen, from time to time, the occasional chucklehead gumming up the works on here. You know...the occasional guy who challenges someone, half a world away, to a fistfight over a dispute about tactics. For the most part I stick to my own clubs MB, which is also slow, but usually suits me fine.

Personally I think CMs MB's are slowing down lately owing largely to the age of the game, and the fact that it is summer...at least here in North America.

All in all I think that people need to think more critically about things; regardless of what. I'm not just speaking of the Blitz MB; but people need to be less rigid in their need to be right, and less calcified in their critical thinking.

As I said, spirited conversation and argument is one thing...but banner flying and shit-disturbing is a whole other matter. There are plenty of places to go for that sort of anguish, and in my opinion this MB isn't one of them. I mean, with the way things are today, you can spark an argument on any other forum about anything; but I view this place, and all other forums of Combat Mission discussion, as a brand apart from that.

Anyway...what the hell do I know...just my $.02