As an interested participant in this process and one who is quite tired of reading disrespectful comments about someone else's comments, i feel compelled to reply.
The issue here is about respect, nothing less. Some have responded positively to the errant ways of others, while some have chosen (or lacked the courage to make the right choice) to take the comment with a grain of sand and move on.
PASmokeater hit it squarely on the head. What concerns me is the way this negativity is propagated by members with more posting experience who, through their number of postings, earned the title 'Trail Leader'. Such behavior is not what we would expect from a leader and, quite frankly, embarrasses me as a leader myself.
I can tell you this: Your collective comments and expertise on Jeep mechanics is priceless to me; that's why I take the time to log in. However, this behavior of disrespectful word smearing (which by the way, in some cases has approached libel) has increased in both frequency and duration becoming more the norm rather than the exception.
This is not cool, tough, nor mature. If this behavior was demonstrated in my company under my watch, the responsible person would be separated.
We are currently at war. People are dying. Although people die all the time, unfortunately most from careless behavior on someone else's part, they're dying now as a result of aggression.
If you can't get along on this board, in a civil, respectful, mentoring way, I personally would ask you to censure or separate yourself until your behavior is more appropriate.
I openly ask our "Trail Leaders" to display more leadership than others, or request the title to reflect 'A Lot of Postings" rather than "Leader". I've tolerated an adequate dosage of bad leadership in work to not have to tolerate it here.
One last thing, from observable behavior, I fully expect to be censured myself from further proceedings here from the more senior contributors and respectfully accept.
If I cease to receive responses to my questions/suggestions so be it.
I still find this process helpful and only hope that my experiences offer assistance to others, as I have always intended.
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