[Ansteorra] Public Thank You

[Lightfootcim at aol.com]

Joshua,
 
First of all, please let me say that I agree with Her Grace, Willow, and  
Caterena whole-heartedly about their comments on patience and how we deal with  
questions asked in less than an eloquent manner.  I do, however, have a few  
observations in this case:
 
1.  For the most part, the people that have answered your current  topic have 
been nice about it and have been helpful in answering your  question.  They 
have given suggestions and have even pointed out where on  the iternet you can 
get a clear, concise answer.  The one reply that  *could* have been taken 
wrong even had some helpful advice in it.
 
2.  Remember, people are only human.  Most people are as nice to  you as you 
are to them.  You post questions to the list, and then find some  reason to 
argue with people over points that have nothing to do with the  original 
requests.  Whether people answer your posts directly or not, they  read them and 
remember how you acted on other posts.  Take this post for  example.  In your last 
reply, you said, "Prity much any of the "keyboard  warriors" need to leave me 
alone from hear on out other wise I will need to  report the to the correct 
SCA officials."  Right there you are threatening  the same people you are 
asking help from.  I try to be a calm man and not  let much get under my skin.  My 
first instinct is to not help you.   People do not respond well to threats.  
They never have, and never  will.  Again, it's being human.  We want to help 
you, but these kinds  of turns in your posts are not the way to get the help 
that YOU are asking  for.
 
A while back, you included your MySpace page on one of your posts to one of  
our lists.  I looked it up.  If you are really living in Washington,  like 
your page says, you might want to go to _www.sca.org_ (http://www.sca.org)  and 
look under the appropriate kingdom  to see what group is located nearest to 
your area. If you live in  Ansteorra, which is most of Texas and Oklahoma, then 
let us know and  we can point you in the right direction on who you can contact 
to answer your  questions about who to contact for fighting topics. 
 
Just my 2 cents,
 
HL John Lightfoot