Very interesting and I’ve been giving that some thought. (O-Boy the thinking mind over-doing it ) So ! Is it possible he fell victim to his own rules ? Rules equals fine line between control and controlled. It’s actually what we just went through with the Pandemic, but let me not go there. Back on Jim, his intentions where good by creating rules, - no personal attacks- no religious or political topics. Etc etc. I actually never went and read the rules listsorry Jim, he probable put lots of time into it. Anyhow, do I think he had a power tripping personality ? No ! But let’s face it, us humans wake up with different moods each day. This variable makes our thinking change daily. I often noticed political and religious comments that he allowed. Maybe that day he was feeling open and accepting to ideas ? Then other times, like the topic ‘ In Memory of a TFP members Dog ‘
for some reason, and I’ll touch on that latter, Jim felt incredibly strong that we TFP members should not have turned that topic into our own personal tribute to our own lost pets. That we should have just given our condolences........I must admit, Jim got that one wrong and most of us agreed. Now I’ll attempt to give him our understanding. For some reason this issue hit him hard, he dug his heels in, and I’m guessing did not listen to members reasoning, Why ?.....If I had to guess, maybe it was a combination of things. Growing tired physically, with the bull shit of having copd. Also tired of ‘ The Management process of his forum. keeping conversations flowing, Moving topics, creating new ones, and managing staff members and there concerns. But the big one maybe could have been a combination of him loosing a pet and the forum problem of members Hijacking posts. We all did this and most times the topic would get redirected and maybe lost. Maybe his ‘ Power Trip ‘ and over reaction came from pent up stress ? Clouding the reality, that we where actually on topic.
I wish I would have emailed him privately to discuss this.......It was a sad day for Jim and TFP ..... Life and rules caught up on a public forum. In closing, Jim came to bat every day with Zest and confidence that he could hit a home run every time, but life throws curve balls ( low and down and high and up
) and those darn pitches are difficult to hit out of the park. RIP Jimbo !
Thinking out loud
I wonder why TFP seemed to attract more " flooring " related people from all over the world and how to attract them to join here? I know we have meet several from our travels overseas London, Boston, just about meet a couple from Canada but things didnt line up and other places
What happened to all the regular posters there and where did they go? Could mention several names never to be heard from again
I do know that most layers I know have a life with flooring only a means to get money to pay the bills, once heading home thats it
I do know that some company reps here do not want to be involved with flooring sites as everybody knows each other so are very limited to what they can say, Others can guess who they are of which Jim could never understand as NZ is too small, 5.2 million total pop, lots of people know of each other in the flooring game through places like trade shows etc
I do know that the National Wood Flooring has a lot more information than any Flooring site in NZ for the same membership fees
I do know I pulled out of NZ Flooring for the same reasons as above, had to be a paying member to get any information which wasnt there anyway. Places like TFP and here one could join for free to get more information
Something I still regret till today. If you’re out there Elmer ! My sincere apologies and I hope some progress has been made for you and your family to continue this journey with meaning and happiness.
