(12-27-2025, 04:54 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: prolly would of been a good idea 12 pages ago tbh
Yup... it's the way things are around here...
you are all claiming (at least in theory) to be capable of conversation...
babysitting services have a cost...
and my sanity is not for sale.
So my solution, aside from "my" style of PSA (dense and temptingly ignorable.

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I take advantage by
a) alerting another mod who 'runs across this manner of 'pollution.'
b) promoting the idea that these members don't appear capable of behaving otherwise
c) "owns" the dialogue where other members would love to ask something or interject... but
d) sounds like a "family-style' heated argument no one want to even observe, let alone interrupt.
Since any comment that is not part of the frenzy is virtually ignored, PSA or otherwise, all that remains is a "warning"... which I am proud to say... I restrain myself where members are concerned... they have eventual consequences.
So this is me...
how I am approaching this problem....
I am taking full advantage as a moderator to be quite purposefully and intentionally OFF TOPIC.
Pick a day...
and on that day go at each other like you do...
not everyday, and certainly not everywhere.
Plan it out...
so we may plan around you.
As it is, wherever you encounter each other, there are only two sides and no discussion about it.
Activist speak yelling each other down... endlessly.
Educational, it is not, Entertaining it's not, what it is, is personal.
You may disagree, but that baggage is on you personally, not everyone else.
DI is not a stage, no one is judging you or what you think... unless you are.
(Shit! I looked into my bag of tricks and that my be my last "be kind" card.)
Maybe I should just be a total Christmas ass and close it myself... but this is an important topic that shouldn't be the crying field for only a few people with unshakeable grudges.
I don't know....
Honestly... conversations
do heal themselves.... if there is interest...
'tis a season for hope.