Before joining this forum , after being a regular negros oriental visitor ,
somewhere around 30 + visits and stays in 12 years , the amount of expats I knew I could count on 1 hand ,
and that is after 12 years , because the only expats I had met were by chance and Expatron is one of them .
I met Ron about 7 years ago through an Aussie mate of mine that has since passed on.
Just recently , at the start of the year I joined this site out of curiosity more than reaching out to communicate and make friends . But I have made friends here , and I am extremely happy that it turned out that way .
And recently when I was there I had an absolutely fantastic experience meeting some of the friends that I have made on this site , Mokum , Shawn M (who I was already friends with from a previous visit , but who I also met through this site ) Pato , who after helping me expedite some banking formality’s , even invited us to his residence for dinner ,
JP and Roger , who got me drunk as a skunk at casa blanca one afternoon (thanks fella’s) and also Ed who dropped up to my place with some fantastic home brew .
So my experience here is a good experience overall . But then I have still have had the nit picky ones here to . They have to constantly pounce and impose their attitude / will. Fair enough to a degree , it is a forum . Some of us choose to conduct ourselves with a certain amount of humility , with a human side to how we go about things . And I think Larry’s administration is exceptional , it is done laterally and fairly but with the hard decisions being made and executed . And even with participation in the forums but not done with overbearing tones , well done Shadow .
But for the members that want to constantly grind away at each other , get a f*cking life , you are like little snotty nosed children that have never grown up . Try and contribute in a non contentious way at least every now and again . if someone is mistaken or wrong , try and explain it , instead of reaching for the throat of the poster. Recently we all had an issue with a member here , who aggravated all with his comments , I kept diplomatically posting in hope he would turn around and realise that he was offside with everyone , and then there were those that went straight for his throat , like a lynch mob , with one of those members even posting contrite little posts back to me , grow up .
The member that aggravated everybody has taken stock and is now , I would say contributing good likeable content .
I feel that I contribute here in a reasonable mode so that is why I am giving you all my take on this . Yes it is a forum , we have to have constructive criticism and debate and disagreement so that it remains at a good standard but is does not have to be done with malice and self righteousness . Let’s all have a crack at being informative and funny while engaging in things on the forum without being nasty and knowitall .
Any thoughts Gentleman ?
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