warrrreagl, I've been here almost as long as you and contributed almost as much. I have threads created in and posts in just about every forum on the TFP. I get that part, but my views of your posts are that they have a hostile undertone. That's fine. I'm not acting ridiculous and calling for your head, but if you can dish out the heat, why can't you take it with the same requirements you've offered us? Instead of making a of it or making light of it, you get defensive... why is that? I don't disagree with you, completely, I just don't care for the tone you present things. That doesn't need to mean anything to you, and I have a right to express my beliefs just like you do... what's wrong with that?
krwlz, I think you got two issues combined. Analog mentions two pregnant women, but the big issue seems to be women (or men) with strollers. If I'm in the grocery store, just me, I'm constantly having to manuever around people who can't properly drive a grocery basket. I think a baby stroller should rank higher on the right of way list than a shopping cart. But back to the initial point, when shopping at the mall, how many stores have two person wide aisles? Most don't, and if they do, it's just a central aisle or ring aisle, as anything more takes up precious retail space. If I'm watching the baby and need to go shopping, me pushing a stroller between racks is not really any different than me WALKING between racks, one of us will have to get out of the way anyway. If I have a stroller, it's a LOT easier for you to move than me.
As for the overall view of the TFP, well, a lot of us have been here for a few years. Over the course of a few years, people can change, mature, grow (or immature, I suppose as well). People have kids, have kids move out, someone who was one guys buddy on the "forever bachelors" train two years ago could be happily married today. What does that mean for a community like this? It means that the tone people have about things will change. It doesn't HAVE to effect you. Feel free to post what you will, and some people will agree with you, and some people won't. It's been my experience that this is how the TFP has always worked, and always will. It's a community of people who want to share and contribute... that doesn't mean everyone is on the same page. Nothing said here (or in the other thread) have been warning worthy or ban worthy... there really hasn't been name-calling or bashing, just disagreeing. Why is that so wrong?
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