But even some of the toughest gung-ho diehard volunteers have jobs and families that always come first.

Please give me a second grace. Please give me a second face. I've fallen far down, the first time around, now I just sit on the ground in your way.
Nick Drake

I suggest that everyone, me included, make sure that an "attack" or "rancor" is truly such and not just passing sarcasm, which can be easily misunderstood in print.

I'm believing Rob when he says I took his humor wrong a couple of weeks ago.  Norm also.

I'd like to think that my attempts to draw attention to the fact that I was having trouble posting was not anything but just that.  I had PM'd a docent, but the problem hadn't improved and in fact, it worsened.  I'm a computer dummy, thus I can't "take care of it myself".  I threw up some flare signals, which is all I knew to do.

Burn out - been there, done that.  I recently had to resign from the Board of Directors of an organization that I like, because there was too much conflict with my day job responsibilities.  Directors are encouraged to take time off and not serve infinite time because of burn out.

Berating no one should be tolerated.  May I be so bold as to suggest that "grow up" is not a healthy conversation between any of us?

I think that we are all just a bit on edge due to our passions about the issues of the past week.  As Gug says, let's all breathe

I'd sign an online or mailed "social contract agreement" to use OlyBlog (like a EULA), and provide "real-world" info so that I can be legally held accountable for my speech choices (whether to engage in hate speech or not, whether to libel or defame, etc...).

It should not be the network provider nor networked application provider legal responsibility to handle user "problems"

--users need support, even users that are "gaming" the system...that is where design theory comes into play...gotta build the correct mousetrap >blah, blah, blah<

--it is either that or some such peer ratings system for every user that controls how/when they can post comments on threads (usually doesn't impact user ability to create/post self-originating content on user blogspace).

Just thoughts--

Frankly regardless of what "clue-train" you are on, the "idea" of social network/community network blogging (location blogging) needs to be rationalized as either a benefit to society or a useless waste of time & unnecessary consumption of energy & resources--

I still think running applications on the net for the local community (like services), would be a better focus for Rick: multi-user domains and shared environments (like games!), and VoIP, and computer savvy support for things like direct connection & file sharing >big grin<

I'd relax and let all these fiesty local OlyBlog users get savvy enuf to run their own personal blogspace, and see how it goes--

Sure, encourage/foster local blogging about Olympia, WA/South Sound as a theme across MANY, MANY 'blogs...not just one site.

I read many 'bloggers on their own respective sites anyways, and RSS makes it easy (as well all know) to take what thread(s) I want from many 'blogs and make content for myself on my own site...many different ways to build a better mousetrap >grin<

Any thoughts?

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