Internal (Subliminal) Feud

[Albert]

Okay, I'm going to be straight up in this thread about what's on my mind regarding how this forum is running and what's happening currently. If you have any concerns about what I say below or any additional ones, please do comment on it.

Firstly, the Magic Alert section sometimes seems to be abused or misused. In other words, sometimes, a person (including me) will overemphasize a matter of a fact's concerns a little too far. I guess you can say that I am somewhat guilty of that in the HighRise topic. My intentions of stating that crediting on the products page should be put to be less misleading turned out to be some massive debate about whether HighRise is similar to the Bow-to-Stern and the Blind Square. I under-emphasized the differences in HighRise to the other moves, which I guess you could say, further built up the whole argument a lot bigger. I'll make sure that I state more clearly my point and keep my facts straight without adding as much bias as possible next time, so I apologize for that.

On the other hand, I also do wish that people segregate one concern for another within the thread to keep it orderly. I almost lost track of if the thread was started due to the concerns on crediting on the products page to the crediting problems due to the differences (or the lack of it) in HighRise to BtS and BS.

Secondly, if there are any disagreements, I wish people would explain clearly why, like what Fin has done all along. This makes the conversation much easier to follow up to instead of becoming frustrated into thinking that the other person hasn't understood what one meant.

Thirdly, I do think Mark and I do very strictly emphasize the matter on ethics. Everyone has different views on ethics and we respect that. However, it seems that due to out extremely strong belief of it, we tend to skip our part about our respect towards one's opinions. If you find that I am straying away from the general rules of respect and opinion in the future, please do give me a big-ass slap in the face to wake-up. Otherwise, the threads will go crazy.

On the other hand, I do believe that it is important for everyone to hold a more respectful and beneficial view towards magic. Although it is my biased opinion, I do believe that the ethics rules Admin has posted is a very good starting point on where to begin. I'm not saying you should always take everything word for word, since that would otherwise be rude. But, it should be something to heavily consider in my utmost opinion.

Lastly, regarding threads like the Classic Pass contest, I wish that one would not be upset at the fact that another has not participated in it. Each person has their own views and situations that could be preventing them mentally or physically. Those non-participants have no grudge against the OP or it participants, so taking it personally seems very unfair to me. It makes the non-participants seem like the bad guy. Regardless, it may be fair to post a reason why one isn't planning on participating (or anytime soon, that is).

Well, my class starts in like 5 minutes, so I have to go. So I'll leave it at this. If anyone else has any concerns or feedbacks they would like to post, I believe this is a good time to see the better way to direct this community. Otherwise, it would end up in chaos.

Thanks.