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[Kool Kat]

Dave, What do you mean by juvenile fashion, Is it because people offered a different view from the one you believed in, or was it because someone disagreed with another post and cried foul ??? Its strange that the guy wielding the ban sword decided to call some of us juvenile !!! The board is losing intetest because people all are afraid to bring up anything other than generic topics. I can count the number of good threads on here in the last 3 months on one hand . Just because people disagree doesn't mean bad discussions come from it.

Chuck

Hi Chuck:

Why can't moderators have and express opinions on the forums? :chin:

Others have that "right" and exercise it on a regular basis? :chin:

Somehow I'm missing this "suppressive" and "regressive" environment that some folks keep using to describe these forums.

This specific thread is an example of "free expression"... and is actually evolving into a rather interesting... and maybe enlightening "conversation?"

I have no "fear" of bringing up topics that are not "generic." My threads "So you want quality CS H2H scenarios?" and "An Open Letter to Scenario Designers" generated very robust and sometimes heated posts... nobody was banned? Everyone who wanted to weigh in on them did? They were enlightening? Some agreed with my opinions... others did not? We had an exchange of different ideas?

Currently, we have a good thread on "Combined Unit Fire" that has been very interesting... "Website issues" that led to a sticky re-direct and clarification on bug reporting...

So my question to you and others who are commenting on the lack of "good threads" - what have you contributed in the way of "good threads" lately?

IMO, it is way too easy to keep pointing fingers at what is "wrong" with the forums - either from a "mechanics" or "content" standpoint. Are things "perfect" here?... no. Are there areas that can be improved?... yes.

Unfortunately, there are folks who will always see the "glass as half empty" and tend to have negative views that continually get "expressed" in their postings. That's all well and good... but if the sum contributions from these folks are simply criticism... and there are never any constructive suggestions for improvement or contributions of their own... then the hypocritical behavior gets old? :chin:

I guess for me, I see these constant criticisms as circular arguments... we keep going around and around on a track... getting no where fast? :chin: I get weary of these kinds of postings... and IMO we should expect much more constructive and enlightening posts from these individuals.

I really like the following quote... it sums up my opinion in a concise way:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt