I'm super tired and my brain is overly fatigued at the moment.... was up until 2 this morning then back up at 6. Spent the last few weeks thinking about how to handle various "issues" here and how they play out. Play them out and then deal with the fallout from that.... my brain is tired.
I just spent an hour or so with Apple getting a phone ready to send in for a repair on a known issue they have a repair program for. That lengthy conversation included questions such as:
I say that to hopefully illustrate my temporary perspective, lack of being verbose, my directness, whatever you want to call my desire to be in bed presently and not that I'm gruff, chafed, or otherwise anything beside tired and trying to temporarily address this before retiring for the evening.
(These started off in order and quick, I just added line 7 and this post is taking considerably longer than I expected to draft)
1: I'm certainly not offended by
@BeerGeek 's notion and told him so .
2: Yesterday and the day before I saw passing comments calling this Butch's forum. I didn't address it, but spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about how to address it.
3: I'm certainly not offended by Burn's post; it does require addressing.
4: Butch left me the forum, not to simply run in a popular manner, but to own and run as I see fit.
Carl can run the TreeHouse however he sees fit once I'm off to Disneyland.
5: In general, I consider myself a good leader. I'm used to being decisive and confident in my logic producing the desired outcome, be it running a family, raising a child into an adult, running a business, removing a tree... whatever. I do make mistakes and am wrong, regularly even. I feel like I spend more than an average amount of time reflecting on those deficiencies.
6: A forum by definition requires participation to be a forum. I understand and respect that. Certain things will rub me differently than Butch... in our talks he said as much, turns out he's right (call the president by his properly spelled name, for example). My goal is to continue the forum as a place to hang out as a family as well as place exchange and store technical ideas. People who are intentionally divisive aren't conducive to that goal.
7: I need and plan to make a post outlining how I think things should be and be handled so we're all on the same page.... for example: If you see something that doesn't "fit", instead of spending the next 100 posts "fighting injustice"and starting a rift, click the damn report button and get my attention on it. Maybe I agree, maybe I don't, but at least I'll see it when it starts, not 100 posts later where a chunk of the forum is frothing at the state of affairs.
8: This piddly amount of words has taken me two hoes to try to formulate appropriately. I'm now sending the draft to another member to see if I can go to bed or if I have to change some language.
9: Post approved and I’m in bed!