Wow!!
Great new site, Tned and gang!
I love it that so many "new" old members from another Broncos site made it in here to help launch what looks to have a bright future! (Speaking of "bright," great color choices, btw! <weg>)
Prior to posting this, I perused some of the other threads. Among these there was one in particular that expressed some concern with the future (and timely) growth of this site. I was a skeptic before the site was launched (go ask carol) but I’m happy to report that I believe that this new site is a success, right out of the box.
In its infancy, I already perceive that Broncos Forums already has a well balanced mix in regard to editorial policy. As with any legitimate website, there must be some ground rules—to protect the general reputation/credibility of the site, first; to maintain equally credible membership, first.
Funny thing. In sentence above, I was just about to enter “first,” and “second” between the semicolons. Then, mid-sentence, I suddenly was reminded of another Bronco site that I had left a few weeks ago. It all came back to me that something was wrong. They had rules. I believe in rules (which also apply to the society at large, or else we would not have a society in the first place).
So why was I upset with the “rules?”
I’ve done some soul searching on this one. Usually, if something doesn’t “feel right,” it generally ISN’T really right. So you have to go with your gut, when occasional little life’s circumstances come around.
On this other (unnamed) site, I saw some sort of automaton society growing out of what once was a warm meeting place for friends. I saw a place that was becoming a victim of its own success. Former friends could no longer “just be themselves,” as it might offend someone in the larger, outer circle. Good judgment on the part of the mods was replaced by clinical “infraction” points.
I did not leave the other site because I was the recipient of one of these little darts. After a week of thinking it over, while monitoring the site, I left because I saw what the new system was doing to others. Bottom line, the end effect was dehumanizing.
It reminded me of that classic sci-fi movie, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”—which is really not about body snatching so much as it is with mind control: Total conformity.
At any rate, that was then, and this is now. I just need to get myself a dam name to be known by in my new “home.”
I just hope I won’t be saddled with “UnoMyName?” forever. Can I change it later, Tned?
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Originally Posted by topscribe
Buck - GREAT to see you here - Boy did you have me confused, but sometimes it does not take much - ENJOY
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