After a few hours of slowly reading through this thread, and looking from all angles, I'm going to say this...

Again, there is a lot of word-twisting and people taking things out of context.  From every angle.

Think about it this way...if I tell you that my husband brought dinner home from Taco Bell, and that my favorite thing there were the new(ish) Chicken Burritos, and that I was looking forward to it, would you then assume that I was only excited about the burritos? 

A lot of folks are frustrated that not a lot is being said.  Then, when it is said, in this case by a consultant/freelance agent to the company, he's jumped on for getting frustrated.  You can't have your cake and eat it, too.  Also, laughing at a person's joke, only to shove it back at them and tell them they're rude is....kind of confusing, at least to me. 

Anyway, I'm not going to point out wrong.  Everyone is wrong, everyone is right.  Yin and Yang.  What I am going to say is this:  EVERYONE needs to take a chill pill.  No one, so far, has been ACTUALLY trolling.  Maybe annoying slightly, yes, but that's not a TOS violation.  

I don't WANT to hand out violations.  I don't want to lock threads.  If that needs to happen, so be it, but it would be an absolute travesty if it had to happen here.  So, I pronounce that the rest of this day be CHILL OUT DAY.  If you feel yourself getting riled up over a forum post, take a deep breath, walk away from the computer, and click that red x in the top right hand corner when you get back.  Unless your response is going to be completely civil and non-snarktastic, it's not necessary.  We're getting tidbits of information.  Sorry if that's not enough for you guys, but that's what we're getting.  Not that I wouldn't enjoy his presence around here, but I don't blame folks like Steve Cooper for not jumping in gung-ho into threads like these.  For a guy trying to run anything, this thread itself would be a full-time job.  Or at least one or two full-time assistants. 

So, while snarkiness is sometimes awesome (you know, on your own blog or poking fun at me), can we put it on hold for a while?  Let's just chill, and maybe ask some REAL questions and learn some REAL things.

Jeni

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