I have changed my daily routine recently but think this thread is so important, I set my timer to come back and just read this.
I am so glad that I did.
I just learned that someone I think very highly of, and would never want to offend or 'bother', has been very gracious, but also sending mixed signals. Maybe I am a little naive, too.
I apologize for my verbosity when I type :oops: . It's a life long thing I have had to work on, and always will. I will not stop trying, as it's my problem, and I really don't mean to make it anybody else's. If I add comments to something, and you come back and respond positively to me, then I think your ok with it, or even enjoying yourself.
Because of 'open' discussion, I am learning that one of the things ppl are concerned about, is having their own thread deleted or scolded, not bc of something they did, but someone on their thread.
Until recently, it never crossed my mind, that something you say on someone else's thread could jeaopardize that person's whole thread. I am going to practice broader thinking and consideration.
I would like to point out one more thing. I may be offtrack, but from some things I read this morning, we have had a lot of new changes in a very short period of time.
I love the PDA section, and I think it has solved a lot of problems. It would be unfair, for ppl to think everything that has happened since it was started, is 'because' of PDA.
Some ppl immediately felt that having the new PDA section was like being treated like a child...send them to the backroom...hide the embarrassing etc....so they refused to go there. That's ok. That is how they feel.
I absolutely embraced it, as soon as I saw it. It suits my personality, and many others. Each person can make their space whatever they want it to be, and for those that don't go there, and think it is just a place where a lot of useless, garbage can worthy stuff is abundant...I am very proud to say, that although maybe only interesting to us "neighbors"...it is not full of degenerates. It's actually very funny, informative to me, and as far as I have seen, not off color at all. People are behaving very well, and getting along famously.
Please do not blame that section, or these ppl, for all the changes since.
We have no control over the other changes.
I wish we would have open discussions like this more often, as I hear things, constructive opinions and ideas, that I never thought about.
I think it is healthy and keeps ppl aware that we each need to come out of our, me-focus, which is unintentional, but human.
This exchange helps us to understand each other and our board better.