Reply #59: Diplomacy is where you move towards a tolerable situation by inches.

[benburch]

We started this morning with an intolerable situation; The postings were locked and then removed, formal warnings were issued...

We advanced to where this thread was created and an apology was rendered. And I can guess that some diplomacy you did not see in public was involved in doing that.

Now we have a situation where the diplomatic thing to do, and the one that would advance things further, in my opinion only of course, is to accept that this thread is here and continue with the good work that was being accomplished in the original thread, and at the same time begin a dialog with the mods and admins about how to coexist in the future.

As in the current strife in "The Holy Land", peace can only happen when both sides have an earnest desire to get along and a full understanding of each other's issues. I can help by trying to air the issues as I have been on both sides of this equation, but I cannot make people want to get along.