Posted by DinahM on April 24, 2002, at 7:08:30
In reply to not clear what led to this, posted by mist on April 24, 2002, at 1:17:05
Thanks mist. I really loved your post.
Somehow the justification for the new reunion board has shifted from wanting to have a place to catch up with people who haven't been around any more to wanting to get away from the flood of unsupportive, etc. newcomers who push the oldtimers out.
I have nothing against the people who posted on the 2000 board. Some of them are my friends, and I know that they are not trying to make anyone feel left out. My objections have always been philosophical.
But the latest turn in the argument saddens me. It seems to lump all newcomers together as a teeming mass of unsupportive rabble. Just my perception based on the fact that the "old-timers" seem to want to get away from us. I'm not singling anyone out here. But reading a few of the latest posts has made me feel like some sort of horrid creature - a newcomer.
If Judy and Tina feel safe on the new board, I'm happy for them. I wish I had somewhere on this board to feel safe. Because I don't think it's newcomers that make this place unsafe. And I don't think it's oldtimers. I think it is individual posters.
I wouldn't join the 2001 board because the dear friends I made in 2002 wouldn't be welcome there. And the dear friends I have yet to make in 2002 and 2003 wouldn't be welcome there. And the dear friends who were posting in 2000 wouln't be welcome there. No amount of benefit would be worth knowing that to me. But that's just me. I have this thing about fairness.
But my opinions and your opinions aside, is it really fair to paint all newcomers with the same brush? We're not all so bad you know. I know there are people on the board who like me and people who don't. But I don't think they gravitate towards me by the year I joined.
Could we please re-change the direction of this conversation?
poster:DinahM
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