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Act like a child and I'll treat you like one. I don't do empty threats, so either respond to me intelligently or ban me from public posting.




See? This is silly. Step back and laugh at the absurdity, then fix things. It really is that easy.

Well, I for one don't understand how Rachel's comment vilifies all men. Rae put it most eloquently, but what I saw was just another comment in a thread about guys, tongues and cigarettes. I don't see how her apologetic comments to you and explanation of how she saw things was 'baiting' you instead of trying to figure out what the issue was.

I think there's a general lack of understanding of where people are coming from with what they write.

However, yes, you are quite right, there is a lack of willingness to compromise.

I hope you're wrong about people not being willing to see it through though. I hope instead people are stepping back to cool off before going on.



Instead of fostering anger, shouldn't we instead be fostering an open discussion?

If we want people to come forward, let's not make this any more difficult for them to do so.

Well like I said, the specific comment was not camel back breaking worthy, but it's the lead in that's important. There'd been several clashes between Stream and Rachel over other more obvious generalizations, and thus this was simply the tipping point. I'm the guy with the tongue piercing dating a woman with a tongue piercing who smokes, and I wasn't offended. Neither did I see anything really offensive in Stream's "Protip" response. It's just too much bad history in play.



Well yeah, me too but when I see one prominent member- the guild patriarch no less- walk out and set down the conditions for his permanent departure followed by two more long time members quitting and the captain throwing up her hands, s**t looks bad. Yeah, there's a good chance that the rest of us, especially the ones who slept through all this will want to put things back together again, but like I said, I want everyone back home and there's no reason we can't accomplish this. Battlestar Galactica Season 2, people.



Well Keys, I'm a known a*****e and troublemaker. It's required of me to stir the pot to get the rage out before you can do the whole healing thing. 'Sides, there's no one in this guild I could intimidate into shutting up if I tried.

[edit] You know what? It isn't worth it.

... The hell ... I leave for a couple of hours and come back to this. gonk

I'm still a bit jet-lagged and shouldn't even attempt going through all that's been said so far. It's wishful thinking I know, but I'm going to go to bed with the hopes that this will work itself out without any need for drastic actions.

Please don't let this situation be the defining point of the New Year for the AG.

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crying heart