Originally Posted by
ophiura
Look...lets just chalk this up to the limitations of the boards, meaning it is not always easy to tell what people mean. You can call someone "my friend" and in your mind it is meant to be nice and calming but the person reading it can take it to be negative and insulting. When someone posts that such and such is the rule, and people come back and imply it is not being enforced, that can be seen in a bad light (as in playing favoritism). Understand that we "sharks" are out here at our NORMAL jobs trying to enforce this...things get by or aren't acted on immediately but we do our best. Its a volunteer thing.
When it is clear a post is taken in the wrong way, it is important not to go on but to just say something like "this was a misunderstanding, I understand the rules and have no problems with it, sorry
" and be done with it. Further attempts to "explain" can lead to escalation, even if totally unintended.
I think that is probably what happened here and I would be unfortunate if it continued on over something so insignificant
I couldn't agree with you more.
The shoe does in fact go on the other foot as well. Not only should I say that I didn't mean it that way, but the other person should try to be understanding.
So I'll try this again.....
Reefnut....One final time. I did not mean anything offensive to you. I am not, and was not upset because we can't buy coral frags on here. I am new on here and did not know of such a rule. I have sent three messages where I was trying to smooth things over but they disappeared from the forum.
Just messin
