Trust me when I say this I'm as mad as everyone right now and I wouldn't even post what I really wanted to say yesterday. I agree with a lot of the posts and I am just as guilty as everyone doing rapid angry posts during games and after.
BUT let's all ( including me ) just try to remember that these kids are just kids-young adults and sometimes the knocks on them are overboard without naming names. These kids chose to play for us. That makes them our kids too. Think about it this way. How many times do we see arguments from posters here on any topic that turn into a shouting match and people practically wanting to fight each other a lot of the time with people who have never met.
It's real easy to fall into the trap of it's just the internet. Well what happens next is people write something they go to far or make something too personal and another poster rightfully gets offended. Well if posts like that to each other here affect us so much personally and most of us are older adults how do you think one of our kids feels if they read the board or their friends or family do and see some of the stuff written. I've worked for my same company same office for 30 years and if I knew someone was saying on a message board that I was likely to leave to go somewhere else I'd probably punch them because they dont know me personally.
My own personal rules that I try to live by on this board which is why I use my name as my screen name ( but absolutely can deviate from at times ) is treat people the way you want to be treated and never say something to someone here that you wouldn't say to them in person. Again I'm just as guilty in going off the rails sometimes and criticism is fair but when you take it too far in the heat of your own anger maybe we should all reread what we are about to write or not write the same post 20 times
At the end of the day these kids ( our kids ) are Johnnies
BUT let's all ( including me ) just try to remember that these kids are just kids-young adults and sometimes the knocks on them are overboard without naming names. These kids chose to play for us. That makes them our kids too. Think about it this way. How many times do we see arguments from posters here on any topic that turn into a shouting match and people practically wanting to fight each other a lot of the time with people who have never met.
It's real easy to fall into the trap of it's just the internet. Well what happens next is people write something they go to far or make something too personal and another poster rightfully gets offended. Well if posts like that to each other here affect us so much personally and most of us are older adults how do you think one of our kids feels if they read the board or their friends or family do and see some of the stuff written. I've worked for my same company same office for 30 years and if I knew someone was saying on a message board that I was likely to leave to go somewhere else I'd probably punch them because they dont know me personally.
My own personal rules that I try to live by on this board which is why I use my name as my screen name ( but absolutely can deviate from at times ) is treat people the way you want to be treated and never say something to someone here that you wouldn't say to them in person. Again I'm just as guilty in going off the rails sometimes and criticism is fair but when you take it too far in the heat of your own anger maybe we should all reread what we are about to write or not write the same post 20 times
At the end of the day these kids ( our kids ) are Johnnies
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