Rody, I didn't want to get into this in public, but:
You need to try to be more tactful. We claim to be less mindlessly loyal and nasty than TNT*, not to mention more thoughtful and willing to address the issues, and for the most part our rank-and-file hold to this. However, you are often cheerfully content to jump into a thread with no more apparent goal than to cast aspersions on others without contributing anything of substance. Jack's recent thread, which had generally been a non-partisan discussion heavy on substance and wholly lacking mudslinging, is a fine example. The length and breadth of your contribution was "and when we start a discussion a dog from TNT will bite us, but hopefully this discussion wont have any mudslinging ". As was distastefully noted by Jack, your contribution did nothing but lower the tone of discussion.
You're perhaps the most active TRP member in terms of comment thread participation. This makes you more than most the face of TRP in the public eye. Unfortunately, you tend to take the low road and contribute less discussion and more unsupported partisanship and mudslinging... and for crying out loud, grammar flaming. EThailand probably has a majority of its population who are not native anglophones; there's no reason to attack them on this account. It's tacky. It's rude. It. Just. Looks. Bad.
The overarching point is simply this: if you're going to be the most public face of TRP, and lecture TNT on their vapidity, rudeness, and mindless partisanship... it might behoove you to try a bit harder to avoid giving them ammunition to accuse us of hypocrisy, divisiveness, nattering, and flaming.
[e]*This was, ya know, my motivation in bringing up the fact that the fix isn't in on Luis for the next TRP party elections; I was of the opinion that a new member with good ideas and initiative can join TRP and aspire to a leadership role without having to waste time kicking their heels to artificially "pay their dues" just for the sake of stroking the egos of the older members. Do you dispute this assumption on my part?
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