I respect Piru and his knowledge, but quite often confident, direct people can be perceived as arrogant or objectionable....
Viva la difference. If we were all the same the world would be a boring place.
Agreed. I've watched plenty of people who rail on one anther from one camp to another, etc. etc. only to have one person, who incidentally half the time started it, call foul and get the other banned.
Both sides usually had interesting things to say but got too wound up in defending their own cause that they sometimes forgot what the spirit of this community is.
Diversity.
The Amiga was the first computer platform that offered its users an electrical platform that was good for music and audio, graphics and animation, multipurpose interaction, communication as well as all the standard computery things.
This diversity is what brought us all together, remember? How many Amiga Users Groups did you all go to and meet people you normally would never had met because they are not just in a different field than you, but a whole different society.
I'm a bad mod becuse I see everyone's point of view and very rarly have the heart to drop the hammer. I miss Franko and Piru. I've had brilliant discussions with them both as well as others who no longer frequent the site.
What I can't do is what this site needs. I cannot force you guys to like each other, respect each other, take a deap breath before responding to a post that you think is targeting something you hold dear. I cannot grow a think skin and then hand it out to the users so they don't rise to every mean spirited thing posted. I cannot give control so you don't hijack threads. I cannot teach you manners.
What I can do is act as moderator between parties. I can try to defuse situations before things go overboard. I can talk, reason, entreat. I try using these tools and they work every now and then but it comes down to the individual user to decide what he want to contribute and take away from A.ORG.
We all need to get back to our common baseline. Amiga MEANS diversity; unity; common area for a myriad of people with a myriad of interests. Amiga IS INCLUSION! So please, don't push each other away...
