| Personally I think it would be more interesting to explore questions such as what different members expect and wish from SYM and how such wishes should be achieved, by starting a new thread with no specific view as starting point. I may be slightly Aspergic, but I did not at all understand that this thread was bumped in relationship to yesterdays discussion about characteristics of the former and the current SYM. This thread was focused on the question whether SYM is, or should be, a community, and it contains a lot of definitions etc, regarding the community concept. The first posts in this thread also contain many references to the conflicts that arouse at SYM following the death of Ronald Reagan, so this particular thread is IMO a bit too specialised to make it obvioius that a general discussion related to yesterdays discussion, was the aim. (If that indeed was the aim.)
I was not at all angry or upset over yesterdays discussion, and I think it's a generally interesting question what different members perceive SYM has been and should be like, and I also find the issue of expectations versus what actually happens quite interesting. I'm a shrink so that's is a type of question that interest me in general, although in a more theoretical perspective. However, since it seemed like some members were angered by my posts on this topic yesterday, I believe it is better that somebody else start such a thread.
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