[Stevie BM]

shmengie said:

unbeliever and pe8er: wtf is your collective problem? if you've found nothing worth reading, move on. cripes, roll your eyes and mutter to yourself in disgust for all i or anyone care. this is a forum. we've all signed up because we want to be involved in the community. if the level of involvement happens to be a 'thank you' to an author, i think that's actually a nice thing for someone to do.

what if someone n e w b (unbeliever's favorites!) joins the board today. 'hey, look!' he says. 'a really cool app. thx!' are you gonna berate this guy for not having found a-s sooner? i can hear it now: 'hi. i know you're new here. but in the future, please check the date of release before thanking the author.'

if you think a belated thank you is a waste of board space, how wasteful should we consider your negative comments on how a belated thank you is a waste of board space? concurrently, if a belated thanks is is not (and i quote pe8er) : "...really important...", then how are we to regard the purposeful expenditure of negative energy spent to merely say, 'don't do that.'

oh, yeah...and with nearly 6000 posts between you 2, are you gonna try and tell us that every single post you guys ever made was timely, topical and important?

look, i'm not trying to start a fight. really, i'm not. i just think you guys should lighten up. anyways, i am now braced for whatever you chose to hurl back at me, so do your worst (short of banning me, of course )...

Their "collective problem" is that people use Aqua-Soft as their own personal ****ting ground and, as old, wizened members who are passionate about the community, this irks them, as it does many others of us. It's very bad form to resurrect a thread from weeks ago, let alone months. If people want to thank others for their work a few months back, don't resurrect a thread we've all seen - send them a PM. This sort of thing is quite clear in the rules. Rules that I worked very hard on, I might add, in the hopes that they would make the board a nicer, tidier place to browse.

In short, both Unbe and Pe8er were in the right. That said, Pe8er, you should have removed the posts and closed it with a "don't resurrect needlessly" kinda comment.

In other words:

Topic Closed.
Don't resurrect threads needlessly - if you wish to thank someone for something they did a while ago, send them a PM.
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Stevie BM