Injuries, man

We sure have had a boatload.

It's like a nightmare on elm street situation.

Even Tum is on the DL.

Injuries are screwing it up!

Injuries hurt my feelings.

tGreenWay wrote:We sure have had a boatload.

Had it not been for injuries we wouldn't have had so many players miss games.

I wonder if we're talking playoffs without all these injuries. I'm betting yes.

Injuries gave my dog diarrhea.

Remember last year when we didn't have injuries? We beat scUM on the road.

You seem to have missed the point of the thread, Heat.

I think a week will be enough before it gets stale. Already started to get diminishing returns on the chuckles. Then again if certain posters get triggered then all bets are off on the timeline.

LooseGoose wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:I think a week will be enough before it gets stale. Already started to get diminishing returns on the chuckles. Then again if certain posters get triggered then all bets are off on the timeline.

And that leads into...

6. Grudges
In any discussion, there is a general expectation that everyone there is participating in good faith – that they have an open mind, no particular agenda, and no bias against the participants or the topic. While short term disagreement is fine, it's important that the people in your community have the ability to reset and approach each new topic with a clean(ish) slate. When you don't do that, when people carry ill will from previous discussions toward the participants or topic into new discussions, that's a grudge.

Example: Tad strongly disagrees with a decision the community made about not creating a new category to house some discussion he finds problematic. So he now views the other leaders in the community, and the moderators, with great distrust. Tad feels like the community has turned on him, and so he has soured on the community. But he has too much invested here to leave, so Tad now likes to point out all the consequences of this "bad" decision often, and cite it as an example of how the community is going wrong. He also follows another moderator, Steve, around because he views him as the ringleader of the original decision, and continually writes long, critical replies to his posts.

Grudges can easily lead to every other dark community pattern on this list. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to recognize grudges when they emerge so the community can intervene and point out what's happening, and all the negative consequences of a grudge. It's important in the broadest general life sense not to hold grudges; as the famous quote goes (as near as I can tell, attributed to Alcoholics Anonymous)

Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

So your community should be educating itself about the danger of grudges, the root of so many other community problems. But it is critically important that moderators never, and I mean never ever, hold grudges. That'd be disastrous.