This may well be the third rail of Vintage, but I don't really care. I have seen too many good people literally driven out of the CO position in Vintage. I suggest that people stop causing trouble. And when you are called by a CO for causing trouble, be grown up enough to accept the admonishment and get over it.

Jim and Dean will be great COs. I'd like to see them stay in their positions for a while. Please support them.

 

JonasM

 

You know who you are too, you who pick on the COs. This is Vintage. Not kidergarten.

 

^^ You could have fooled me.

 

Its a tough and thankless job. You are at everyone's mercy and you have to walk a fine line.

Even in the most civilized forum, which Vintage is, there will probably always be aggrevation for the CO. It comes with the territory. By virtue of the fact that there are so many personalities conflict will always be a part being a CO.

I think it good that we have a tradition here in Vintage of the CO serving for a period of time and then passing the baton. It gives the forum a chance to stay fresh, and gives the CO a chance to recover before burnout becomes too serious.

 

 

Agreed, but it's too bad burnout happened a little faster than usual this time.

Our loss...

Lainey:

JonasM

 

I just wonder if it's the same people burning out COs over and over. I don't know.

 

Maybe a visit by my friends Guido and Vinnie is in order.

 

Perhaps there's a way to find out and to fix some of the problems: publicity and associated peer pressure.

It seems to me that, in the time I've been around here, at least (17 months and a week -- I looked it up), Vintage has had -- been blessed with, maybe -- extremely polite COs.

Maybe they've been too polite.

Maybe our COs, instead of disappearing threads that turn sour, should simply lock them with a final comment to the effect "Locked because So-and-so is being a jerk". That would tell the world that it was So-and-so's fault, giving him or her the opportunity to apologize, and, absent such an apology, it would let the rest of us know what's going on so that we could treat So-and-so accordingly. (And note that this could as easily apply in the -- not infrequent -- cases of multiple So-and-sos in the same sour thread.)

Now, I'm pretty sure I won't have to work too hard to get Dean to take a harder line on this -- he's used to standing in front of a gaggle of unruly young adults trying to impart complex concepts.

But I don't know about Jim -- maybe I should volunteer to provide him with anti-jerk lessons. HPH