[PoetJA-1975]

Originally Posted by noppid

I do not see the request that staff act like professionals while running the board and leave their personal feelings out of posts while doing so as talking negatively.

I find it to be a means to an end that should have come a long time ago. You know, professionals talking to professionals? That's not too much to ask.

The personal editorial comments are unnecessary and lead to animosity. It's a catalyst to exactly what they want to avoid, confrontation.

You can't argue with rules. You can, and most will, argue with personal editorial comments. Especially the condescending comments.

Moreover, it escalates tempers, causing even more animosity, when someone replies to the commentary and then the moderator button is used as a means to have the last word when the conversation should have never begun to begin with.

I edited my post before you quoted :P -- But yes - I agree.

And I think tackling some of the issues you have talked on in the comic strip has potential to benefit all involved. And of course the main purpose of any comic is to make the readership smile and laugh. So in essence - poking fun at ourselves is a means to lighten the mood ((it's interesting to note, when people can be self-deprecating in a funny and light way - it often leads to an all-around embracing of sorts which makes the immediate surroundings a much better place to be in))

At anyrate - not to get into a too-deep philosophical mode - but yeah - I agree with you - a vBulletin comic could be instrumental in making the mood around here less stuffy.

And just briefly commenting on LYNNE's post - It seems funny to me that a thread could be closed because someone has gotten a wee bit off topic or whatever. I mean - we are on a DISCUSSION forum which does lend itself to discussion LOL

Hmmm - Perhaps this thread should have been posted in the Community Lounge, rather than feedback. But by posting it here, I think SHELLEY was basically asking if Members had put their time and energy and creativity into making a comic as suggested, would the thread by closed forthright as a lot of previous threads had been. And from the sense of it - it seems like depending on the topic, that such a comic would be closed or even deleted from public view, rendering all of the time and energy and creativity put into its creation a total waste of time. Hmmm... I suppose another interesting topic would be censorship LOL --- Creative people can laugh heartily at a comic which pokes fun of the "big webmaster" weilding the censorship whip over the mundane slaves.

Jacquii.