Respect For One Another On This Forum

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MEMBERS:

I just want to preface this by saying that, first, this was found posted on another great forum by "JoeG", of Railroad.net. It's very applicable to our type of forums as well. Although the majority of you are awesome and there's a higher level of respect between members of EMTBravo then any other forum I know of, we all work togetether to help maintain that and this message just serves as a reminder especially to our newer members who may not be familiar with the EMTBravo ways.

It also is annoying me lately that people have been slamming one another just for posting their thoughts, opinions, and ideas.

Know that I am proud to be part of THE BEST forum membership on the entire 'net!-and want to keep it that way

So, "Please Treat Our Topics As Conversations Between Real People"

...................., the topics in our forum often get political. Unfortunately these political topics often degenerate into flame wars. These flame wars destroy otherwise interesting and useful conversations.

The nature of the Internet makes flaming easy. You're sitting alone at your computer. You read a post that annoys you. In that moment, the post is experienced not as a comment from a friend, but as an insult from a disembodied, far-off devil. You fire off a response more appropriate to beating back a devil than to replying to a friend. And, the topic is destroyed and were off to the flame wars.

Please, folks, when you post here, especially when you post in answer to a comment you disagree with—pause a moment before you click Submit.

Ask yourself, “Would I say this if I were in the same room with him?

Then ask yourself, how would I feel if somebody said to me, what I am about to say to him?

If we all exercised a little more empathy and restraint, our Forum would be a much better, more interesting place.

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~Joe Grossman

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Like I have said in the past. Whatever I write on here I would say to somebody's face.