Perfectly said @bigAL. I didn’t want to wake up this morning to a fire that needs to be put out. I didn’t wake up wanting to argue with people and dish out punishments and deal with drama. I’ll do it because that’s what the league needs to prosper but I don’t want the league to need that. I want to be able to focus on making the VHL better instead of trying to keep it afloat. Most days we’re very good at that. Most days we can coexist despite our differences and all come on here and enjoy ourselves.
Last night was apparently not most days.
There are ways to have debates without devolving into drama. There are ways to have debates without devolving into personal attacks. Those things don’t make for debate, they make for fighting. I’m fine with debate, I’m not fine with fighting. What I woke up to wasn’t debate.
We all have the capacity to do better in the world, or at least not make things worse. I get that things can get heated, I’m guilty of it myself and the evidence is all over the forum if you know where to look. That doesn’t mean I’m not trying to do better though, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t all try to do better. We’ve literally raised over one thousand dollars in a day, that’s doing better and that’s the VHL I know.
Don’t just meme this and move on, do better. We all came to this site from different places with different experiences. Learn from each other and collectively improve things here. I joke that @Tate came around to the good side with time but it wasn’t just time, it was realizing that perhaps he needed to look at something from a different perspective and it helped him. We all want to make the VHL and the world a better place, at least I hope we all do. We can’t do that by being dicks.
Don’t be a dick.