I’m going to take a moment and remind those who may have forgotten why we are here.
TechRepublic values each and every one of us that visit the site and feed back to them how the site can improve. Doesn’t mean that they will fix the thing that ticked us off lately. Just means that they value us all.
There is a PTB. They make final decisions. Period. When we joined, we said that we would be governed by those decisions. This is NOT a democracy.
TR is funded by traffic. Some of that traffic comes from a wide variety of countries. Anything that can be taken as an attack on those other peoples can become a problem.
TR is not a playground for everyone. It IS a site dedicated to the IT professional. It is a site that not one of us pays to be a part of.
A peer was booted. The PTB have a right to boot anyone they like for any reason that they care to espouse. I can speak to the PTB’s anguish that this peer was so insistent on being out of line. I can also speak to the PTB’s sense that they did too little, too late.
Here’s the bottom line. Add constructively to the dialog or don’t add. Learn where you can post silliness and where you can’t. Understand when potentially off colored remarks will be understood, and more importantly where they won’t. Understand that this is not a playground, but a business. And that business has the right- even the responsibility- to fold up and walk away.
There has been a great deal of disrespect here in the last year. If you care about keeping TR, I would suggest that you act like it.
I told a member of the PTB today that the adults of TR not only know, but understand, that the PTB must act to preserve this place. And that we will understand that they are the final authority. I ask my peers to stand with me in that sentiment.
It is late in my time zone. If I am out of line, I apologize.
