So, I realize this isn't the direction we're going but..

Hi Savages,

Relevant topics bolded if you're a TL;DR person.

Fully expecting for downvotes to rain like pink slips at Oracle when it discovers it's paying more salespeople than the bare minimum to succeed. I realize that I'm going to come across as "the why can't we just all get along" person in marketing. Oh well. I personally want to see what Corp and Sahil do if they strike it rich. Come on, you don't want to see what Corp would do with millions of dollars?

We seem to have ratcheted up the toxicity in the past few weeks. I am absolutely a guilty party in this but here are some suggestions to make us lower the temperature just a bit.

-We have a lot of people whose first language is not English that have joined our ranks. I didn't realize the scale of this until today. Some of us, myself included, have pounced on people for grammar/spelling before realizing that the poster wasn't a native speaker. I would encourage folks who are working with translation services or still working on their English skills to let us know. We're happy to help you get better! I know several people have expressed interest in communicating in other languages on the platform. That's great as well.

However, some of y'all just can't fucking write and you need to work on that.

-Please, please use the search bar and do your research before you post about a topic. As @poweredbycaffeine said, there is a ton of good stuff on here if you're willing to look for it. And reviving an old thread by posting on it, tagging people who didn't post there, etc., is perfectly fine!

-For those of us who have been here a while, let's practice a little bit more patience. I know it's irritating to see song posts and the like. But we can just skip those rather than commenting aggressively or posting definitions from the dictionary (which was funny, whoever did that first).

-New people - Understand that a lot has happened before you got here. I've been posting with @paddy , @funcoupons , @CuriousFox , @BigMeech , @Chep , @poweredbycaffeine etc., (no offense to y'all I didn't tag directly) for months. I've gotten a lot of value from them and I hope they have from me. But when you come in and start taking shots at these people, you're probably going to piss a bunch of people off who have built, for lack of a better word, relationships with them on this platform. They're gonna clap back in legion.

-Chill with the direct attacks across the board - Not helpful. I have to deal with enough petty bullshit with delivery and would like to focus on defeating them.

End soapbox speech. Toto blesses my downvotes in Africa.