Lookie what I got last night! - Collecting Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 10:53 PM If you want people to respect your expertise, try treating them respectfully. Likewise, if you create a topic titled, "Lookie what I got last night!" then you are implying that it's something that people in this community will WANT to look at. If the ensuing post is about a kind of object that is SPECIFICALLY called out in the list of "What Tiki Central Isn't", how much respect does that show? But honestly the original post didn't bother me at all. The part I don't get is the ruffled feathers over the fact that anyone said they don't like it (in any way). If you just think about it from the other perspective (with "respect" for the stated interests of TC), doesn't it make sense that some members, or even a lot, would react negatively? It's not snobbery or policing, it's just consistency with a very simple and clear mission statement. There seem to be a number of people who feel some kind of personal insult in the fact that this mission statement excludes some of the things that they're interested in. Ironically this sentiment seems to often be expressed in a barrage of "negativity", supposedly in the defense of victims of other negativity. -Randy

If you want people to respect your expertise, try treating them respectfully.

Likewise, if you create a topic titled, "Lookie what I got last night!" then you are implying that it's something that people in this community will WANT to look at. If the ensuing post is about a kind of object that is SPECIFICALLY called out in the list of "What Tiki Central Isn't", how much respect does that show?

But honestly the original post didn't bother me at all. The part I don't get is the ruffled feathers over the fact that anyone said they don't like it (in any way). If you just think about it from the other perspective (with "respect" for the stated interests of TC), doesn't it make sense that some members, or even a lot, would react negatively? It's not snobbery or policing, it's just consistency with a very simple and clear mission statement.

There seem to be a number of people who feel some kind of personal insult in the fact that this mission statement excludes some of the things that they're interested in. Ironically this sentiment seems to often be expressed in a barrage of "negativity", supposedly in the defense of victims of other negativity.

-Randy

Post #354248 by aquarj on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 10:53 PM