Some of it is just the kids, who are just going to be constitutionally different that the 20-, 30- and 40-somethings among us. You youngsters are going to find that things are that way, too, when your time comes to be 49, like me.
Having said that, anyone can be negative (me too) on a given day or in response to something that seems particularly irritating. I got fed up a while ago, for instance, with the younger members who evidently NEEDED me to know that they had a new x, y, or z, c/o "Mom" usually, that had no conceivable relation to a vintage Mac. You might call it "creeping twitterization," and my response one of "twitter fatigue."
The more disturbing thing for me is the fact that some of the long-standing members have been disappearing (eQuill, eQuill, where art thou eQuill?). That's a huge fund of knowledge and a longish list of posts that were actually worth reading that have been lost.
As for the mods, it is surely asking too much to expect all discussion to be policed, as these people have (one suspects) essays to write at uni and such. I am just pleased that someone, somewhere takes the time and trouble to do this on my behalf, on a completely voluntary basis, so it is enough to hope that broad trends should be monitored and that the rest should be left to us.
"Leaving it to us" means that there should be threads like this, basically, and that it should be taken as normal that occasionally there should be minor scuffles in the forums. That sort of tension can actually be constructive, in the sense that it might lead to better behaviour subsequently, so best to live with it. Not all conflict is bad.
And I generally avoid the Lounge, too, as an arena empty of any interest. As one of my last attempts to inject a spark of life into it failed so spectacularly, I will probably just give up on it. But others are avid posters there, so live and let live and leave them to it.
Having said that, anyone can be negative (me too) on a given day or in response to something that seems particularly irritating. I got fed up a while ago, for instance, with the younger members who evidently NEEDED me to know that they had a new x, y, or z, c/o "Mom" usually, that had no conceivable relation to a vintage Mac. You might call it "creeping twitterization," and my response one of "twitter fatigue."
The more disturbing thing for me is the fact that some of the long-standing members have been disappearing (eQuill, eQuill, where art thou eQuill?). That's a huge fund of knowledge and a longish list of posts that were actually worth reading that have been lost.
As for the mods, it is surely asking too much to expect all discussion to be policed, as these people have (one suspects) essays to write at uni and such. I am just pleased that someone, somewhere takes the time and trouble to do this on my behalf, on a completely voluntary basis, so it is enough to hope that broad trends should be monitored and that the rest should be left to us.
"Leaving it to us" means that there should be threads like this, basically, and that it should be taken as normal that occasionally there should be minor scuffles in the forums. That sort of tension can actually be constructive, in the sense that it might lead to better behaviour subsequently, so best to live with it. Not all conflict is bad.
And I generally avoid the Lounge, too, as an arena empty of any interest. As one of my last attempts to inject a spark of life into it failed so spectacularly, I will probably just give up on it. But others are avid posters there, so live and let live and leave them to it.