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Originally Posted by Ajack
I believe that most of the "doubters" concerns posters with very few posts. I think it is very rude and uncordial-like for new members to come here and immediately complain.
I compare coming to a forum as the same thing as moving to a new neighborhood. I would like to know my neighbors and be friends before I started "ranking" down the whole neighborhood.
Now, of course, I am a new member here, but I am a member of several forums and have thousands of posts in the last 7 years. Most forums are the same. They will take new members with a grain of salt before they can "trust" what they say. It is the same in real life, too, don't cha think?
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I agree. However, in the particular case of the rats at the Ashland pool, which I mentioned, our neighbor had many many posts, so she was not a newcomer. I do think there is a group of people who somehow take it personally if their neighborhood, The Villages, is found to be imperfect in any way, and will criticize anyone who mentions these imperfections. And there are others, I think, who may be connected with The Villages developer, who are trying to put The Villages in the best possible light, who will try to cast doubt on some posters. So I do agree that we need to keep all of this in perspective, and take with a grain of salt, as it were.