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I agree with your last line. You have your opinion on things and a level of expectations. Others don't share in those opinions exactly. Cool. Nobody is making anyone raise or lower their personal expectations of where the program should be. My issue is that it feels like every thread turns into it. If the pro-fire Jones folks want to stay on topic in this thread have at it. If the give em another year folks want to stay and hash that out. cool. But it bleeds over into other discussions. To make matters worse some like to poke at each other and draw it out. There's just this climate of toxicity on the board right now around this idea of program expectations and we can't get past it. I think that's where a lot of the snarky sarcasm to this topic comes from. The serenity prayer comes to mind for me.

Look, I'm all for keeping things wide open. It's a internet forum. They're a great resource for sharing information, debating ideas, etc. I don't want this place to be a echo chamber of kumbaya and cupcakes for everyone but at some point we gotta all agree to disagree on some topics. Or, like you said. Don't go into a thread titled "Fire Jones" unless you want to try and change someones mind.

So, that being said. He ain't going anywhere. Ask uncle Jeff to pass the gravy. =]


quick edit: we, as a group, need to challenge ourselves not to call someone's idea stupid and convincing ourselves that's different than calling the person stupid. It's nit picky but it doesn't exactly help to convince someone of your argument. Let's all talk to each other like we would over dinner... while Jones passes the gravy. Because he's coming to thx giving dinner. Uninvited. And there is nothing you can do about it.

If it wasn't obvious that last bit was terrible humor to lighten the tone.