Message #20970

[ToddW]

I prefer to remain the Neutral Zone ... I have the Vail site and other net sandboxes where I can throw snowballs at the fools, idiots, stuffed shirts, cheats, quacks, and charlatans who are so common in the snowsports industry.

If we do add a war zone, I suggest that it be readable by members only and that web crawler member ids be blocked, if possible.

A funny thing about the label "passive-aggressive" is that two reasonable people can utterly disagree about when it is applicable.  At times I have managed teams of opinionated individuals (world-class PhD's) sprawled across the planet, a situation which actively draws out the passive-aggressive worst in some individuals.  Although I am thus well acquainted with the behavior, IMHO I haven't seen much of it on this forum. 

The truth be told, each of us has offended or upset another forum member once or twice.  I certainly have.  (Sorry Ron.  Sorry Phil ... and every one else.)  It's just part of the internet forum experience.  I valued Max_501's participation on this forum greatly, and I hope that he will continue to participate.