I would like to throw something completely different into the pot because I wonder if it has been noticed by anyone else. I'm sorry, sometimes I just have to say things...
At the risk of sounding insensitive, cold-hearted, and even witchy, here are my thoughts:
7550 members of this community, 50 online at the time of this post, and yet, we are only hearing from a teeny tiny percentage, if even large enough to quantify. Facts are, from my newness perspective:
- this is a free-for-us quilting forum with a real-life feel governed by genuine moderators.
- the majority of these 15 pages have been about GCC and PDA and not about quilting.
- the majority of the posters on these 15 pages are not the 50 online currently, they are the same who post regularly. Maybe they are entitled to more of a say but who is to say what that is.
I understand this is setup as a community and I feel the mods and Admin are now bending over backward, sideways, and inside out to make this place mesh to meet the needs of topics other than quilting. Here's where the insensitivy arrives: aren't there other boards or forums for those topics? Or on a personal level: Blogs? Personal websites? Myspace? Facebook? PM's? Emails? If you go to most quilting, recipe, pet, cross stitch, or religious forum, the focus is on the title of that forum, not on the GCC and nowhere have I seen an added PDA! Here's where the witchy comes in: and this is not enough? C'mon...we're all adults here and run families, homes, businesses. We are intelligent enough to decide what falls into each category.
I love this board and love the community feel and comraderie but to me, these 15 pages - the fact that there had to be be even a page 1 - show a sense of entitlement that we are in no position to expect. In these 15 pages the mods have shown nothing but the utmost respect and graciousness for the many moods and emotions displayed, and there were far more thank-you's than what-about's. Where's the fair play?
I would like to say thank you to the mods and Admin and whatever you decide is fine with me. I'm sorry you have had to spend most of your weekend dealing with this as it must take you away from your own lives as well. We get to leave and come back, you need to have that third eye open. Thanks for listening.