What are you really an "expert" in?

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*rant*

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TO be honest, I expect to be booted and banned, and I largely do not care anymore. The irony is, more often than not as I have said I support what many of you say, even if not to the fanatical belief you all seem to demand. I am a moderate, yet it has been made obviously clear to me that even "moderates" are not welcome in here, and must be excised. And laughingly, I only came to the forums to hopefully network with other authors, to see if we could help each other out. Even in creating this thread, my hope was to see if I could make "peaceful contact" with others, without all the political garbage that many seem to bring everywhere they go, and create some civil conversation without animosity.

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So not to be impertinent, but is that not part of your very job, to keep discussions and conversations on-track, topical, and to prevent bullying and disrespect? To keep debates civil, and be impartial unless you are imputing as an individual?

And finally, moderators saying things will go out of control, while it is in their power (and their very job) to keep that from happening.

In closing, you said "It will". But I say, is it not your very job to prevent that from happening?

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I am most familiar with, having had the most experience with, team (5-50) management. I have moved into Project Management, and still - on occasion - question my decision.

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Once again, the very description:

Adult Swim - discussions and debate of a more serious and heavyweight nature

Not everything has to be a debate, or an argument. At least, not to most people.

And ultimately, this is a message area on a site about stories. And quite a few of us are also writers.

More than once, people have come to me because of my knowledge of things like the military or "vintage computers", because they wanted some information they simply did not have. And I have called upon similar individuals in the past. I even once for a story had a question about a comic book character, and one of the other posters was a self-proclaimed "comic book geek", so I knew I was able to get answers from him.

Not all of us live our lives based on arguments and politics.

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When you go to the book store you dont see them mix the bibles in with the history books, or the fiction with the non fiction. They do this for a reason.

This forum has sections as well. This thread belongs in the spa.

It doesn't really matter, but you are a dumbass.

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I'm an expert at "experts." You or I or anyone else here can claim to be experts at just about anything, but on a site where everyone is anonymous, such claims without credentials amount to little more than just gratuitous bragging.

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Has anybody told you recently you’re a real crybaby when you don’t get your way?

One question I’ll direct back to Mushroom is, “What did you mean by ‘expert’ since you put it in quotes”? Most posts here tell me what the posters are very familiar with and do a lot of, so on that basis, my specialty is database searching. You’d think that querying different SQL-based databases is much of a muchness, but each one has its focus and querying peculiarities. Couple that with the often poorly thought-out requests, and the class of “Informationists” is needed.

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I know more about baseball and baseball history than is probably healthy for a person.

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We could use a good baseball history & trivia thread. Maybe in The Spa.

We can ask questions like, what was Ty Cobb's number, and who is the all-time leader in grand slams, who has the record for striking out the most?

Go Braves!

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I'll give it a thought. I've tried bringing it up a couple times in another thread, and was met with complete indifference.

That strikeouts record is gonna fall in the modern era - SO many more strikeouts these days.

I LOVED that 90s Braves pitching staff. Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz, oh my!

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I am actually wanting to change my job and had just thought about becoming a data engineer. I have worked quite a bit with SQL and designed file structures for projects. Research shows that is a much-needed IT profession. Would you mind if I msg you about your job details?

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I have my picture with all three of them together and individually as a kid, with autographs. They were awesome!

At 9 years old l was at World Series Game 6 to see the Braves win the World Championship over the Cleveland Indians, with my dad, granddad, uncles and cousins. I am forever a life-long fan addict of the Atlanta Braves. I go to several Braves games each year. So l've seen them in all 3 home stadiums, Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, The Ted (Ted Turner Stadium, and Truist Park.

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Has anybody told you recently you’re a real crybaby when you don’t get your way?

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What do you mean?

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you whine as much as Bread8 does is how i took it.

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You got to see them celebrate winning the World Series on the field!? That must have been awesome! My only World Series game, Derek Jeter hit the first frikkin pitch out of the park, and it was all downhill from there. I did get to witness tens of thousands of Mets fans boo John Rocker (and throw plastic water bottles) as he ran out onto the field during the Mets-Braves playoffs. What a chucklehead.

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What? Bread8 doesn't whine.