I don't see anything wrong with people venting. I could care less if they make 1,000 threads venting. This isn't my forum. It belongs to the community and what the community wants to do, within the rules, is their business. As long as they're not breaking the rules let them be and mind your own damn business. Who are you to dictate professionalism to anyone? If BHW isn't professional enough for you then don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Someone mentioned Bill Gates - you've got to be fukin kidding me. Study his history before sounding so stupid. I've been in the computer business 23 years this year. I know his history and remember all the stealing this guy did in the early years. I think he's been sued by every JV he ever partnered with. He would have been on the shitlist about 100 times if this forum was around in 1989-1999 and he with all his JVs were members. Mentioning professionalism and Bill Gates in the same sentence is nothing but ignorant.
Discussion and brainstorming is what leads to positive action at times. If you have all the frickin answers then start dishing them out. Don't jump on your pedestal and tell everyone that just got raped to get over it, move on and by God be professional about it. Let them tell their stories, share their thoughts, laugh a bit and distract them from the reality they got screwed without as much as a kiss. Time heals and so does sharing your problems with people suffering the same fate. People don't feel like they're the only ones and learn from others in discussions.
I guess you've never been in an support group for addictions but this is how it works. Sit in on an AA meeting some day and listen to everyone share their carbon copy stories of addictions. If you've heard one you've heard them all. Those meetings work because it reinforces people that they aren't unique and their problems aren't unique. They support each other and work through the issues. Are all the stories practically all the same? Damn right they are. Nobody walks into the room and says stfu we've all heard this shit before.
If you don't want to be in the support rooms then quit clicking on the threads. Don't sit on your pompous ass and tell everyone to stfu and be professional. Last time I checked this wasn't your forum. If you find someone that violates the rules then report it. Don't dictate what people should say and what they shouldn't. Then maybe people wouldn't return the favor!
Now act professional whatever the hell that means. If it means act like Bill Gates then I need a JV making good money with a secret method that is willing to share that method with me for cash and then I don't pay him and use the method for myself calling it my own. That is the Bill Gates professional I know..
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