Let's stick to the appropriate fora for a change
Tue, 14 Oct 2008, 10:51 amstinger28 posts in thread
Let's stick to the appropriate fora for a change
Tue, 14 Oct 2008, 10:51 amThis website is very neatly divided up into separate fora (or forums if you must) plus there is a facility for registrants to maintain personal blogs. Lately, it seems to me that the divisions are becoming somewhat blurred. For example, someone starts off expressing some personal thoughts on his own blog which generates into a debate about pro-v-am theatre and then gets into a review of his latest play. In another case, someone posts a perfectly useful (if a bit biased) review on the Revies forum, then a cast member responds (inappropriately I maintain) in a long boring post about the sacrifices he had to make for his art or some such self-serving twaddle, more appropriate to a blog.
Then of course there are an increasing number of posteurs sending cheerios to each other on general fora. Please don't - it is not really all that interesting for the rest of us - and don't forget that includes everyone on the World Wide Web!
As for trolls - remember the story of the three billygoats gruff...nuff said!-)
You may have had a point Peter....
Tue, 14 Oct 2008, 11:19 am...but then it quickly degenerated into a continuation of your personal spat with Greg Ross ("a cast member responds (inappropriately I maintain) in a long boring post about the sacrifices he had to make for his art or some such self-serving twaddle")- a thinly disguised rebuttal of Greg's account of missing Bathurst because of his theatre commitments.
I can't help thinking this was the aim of your post.
Frankly, to turn your point on yourself, why involve the rest of us in your rants when both you and Greg are registered members and therefore free to hurl invective at one another via the pages messaging system?
Your dislike of Greg is, to coin your own phrase, not really all that interesting to the rest of us.
I don't you by anything but sight but you've advertised your hubris most effectively in the last few months and it certainly hasn't made me want to work with you in future. That's a shame because you both obviously have a common love of theatre and I normally gravitate to people of that nature.
In the words of an old aussie band - Lay down your guns, don't be so reckless.
Or to put it more bluntly - grow up and start acting your age.