Our volunteers are the reason we run this wonderful place. Each and everyone of us are important and should be appreciated daily. Not a single one of us gets paid for the effort we give toward DMS. We give our time and talents to this place because we love it. You may not agree with a volunteer such as a chair or board member or the person who takes the garbage out when it’s full but please always remember that they don’t have to do anything for DMS. Show our volunteers your gratitude and that they are appreciated. Ask to help if you can, look for ways to give back to the space if you have the time and energy. If you find yourself unsatisfied about a volunteer perhaps you can offer your help instead of bringing them down by complaining. No one wants to do a job they don’t get paid to do and receive crap about it. This is a resource we cannot lose my dear makers. If we have to hire people in to do the jobs our volunteers do we will have to raise membership rates to pay for them.
That brings me to the point of this post. If you are on the talk forum aggravating members and our volunteeer moderators then stop. I’ve seen non members lately stirring people up and that’s even more unacceptable than members fussing over things they don’t want to help fix. Which is pretty unacceptable in my opinion. I’m going to hold off on putting on the agenda that we change the talk forum to DMS ONLY so you can fix the problem yourselves. If you can’t then Talk will be changing. Debate is always welcome. But personal attacks will go away. This is not a request. Ask yourselves how that kind of childish nonsense helps this place in any way? It doesn’t. And it won’t be tolerated anymore. Be civil in your disagreements or don’t post. There is no way I’m going to continue to let people attack others on this forum. So you get the chance to make it happen yourselves.