Jackson opened this issue on Sep 01, 2003 ยท 31 posts
dialyn posted Mon, 01 September 2003 at 11:06 PM
As a possible moron, I would suggest it would be difficult to choose who the troublemakers are. It would seem a troublemaker is anyone who doesn't agree with someone else. Over time, that would eliminate most of the community that posts regularly. My recollection of the original thread was that the question (not accusation) was if Neftis's creation came under the same rules that the vendors were being asked to follow about posting their own products in the product forum. At the beginning, Neftis did not indicate if the work in question was going to be sold or not...in fact, I assumed, like many others, it would be sold since she has offered a great many items for the marketplace. She made a very dramatic declaration that she was being picked on but it wasn't true, despite the rewriting of history now...she wasn't accused of anything in particular, rather it was the overall rule of conduct that was in question for everyone (and not just her). I think it is easy to call people names and demean them with moronic titles, but the facts are more complex than that, and it is too bad we retreat to labeling people instead of remembering that it was community members themselves that were in disagreement over the issues. Who should be tossed out? And who gets to be the judge? Too many people want to pretend they have that right but I find most dubious to decide. This community has no consistency in its attitude toward any topic...I venture to say it could not even agree on who should stay and who should go. There is a vocal minority which often gets its way by consistent repetition of complaints which falsifies the notiion of an overall opinion just by beleaguering people with the steady drone of the same opinion posted on several different threads over and over aagin, a silent majority that rarely speaks up but quietly works on their own private itnerests in the background without caring about the community as a whole, and a few moderators who try to find the middle ground. Just like the real world, isn't it?