Conflict produces Progress
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The Following Post was submitted by J-T-W-NY
It is a reality that any human organization will produce its fair share of conflict. We all have different ideas, motivations and agendas and they will at times clash. We also oftentimes have difficulty articulating what we want and communicating that to others. Resentments can and do build up within only to be unleashed in inappropriate ways.
Regular users of Home like us can see that right now there is a fair degree of dysfunction. There is a tremendous amount of negativity on the forums and in Home itself directed towards management, other users and the program itself. One of the signs of a healthy organization is its ability to self govern. To take its regulation upon itself and to work for constructive methods and solutions for what ails it. This is the reason why we're motivated to organize the Home Open Debates. There are many and various reasons why we are in this situation and this is something that we hope to fix. In time we would like to see participation by those who do actually run Home and the forum, but in the time being we as users ought to get together and discuss the issues that are on our minds and is bothering us. There is mention of two camps in Home, the "elite" and "rebels." Labels are not definitive nor particularly descriptive, but are necessary for us to at least get a handle on the situation.
When Crunkris, Kamala_Ona and I met with Mr_Lochwood and Mrs_Lochwood last Thursday, we suggested to have these debates as a way to at least understand each other and provide a forum to share ways to work together. It is suggested that the first debate should be devoted to airing personal grievances. The origin of this conflict can really be dated back to last spring with the region hopping controversy (that is, at least, when I first heard the term "elite" being applied to certain users in Home). And I don't want to sound too hippy or preachy, but I am hopeful we can achieve some kind of unity on Home after these debates.
Makes me think of that saying,,, "Together We Stand, Divided We Fall"
How can anyone within the Sony Administration take us serious if we are always at conflict with ourselves and them,,, I am not saying we should become sheeple - but there are professional ways about airing grievances and making suggestions - attitudes need to change from the ground up - from the Noob up to HCM - We can't do anything about Noob conduct,, but we can work on our own conduct and hopefully make some changes for the better,,, we all have to learn to give a little and be flexible,,, as much as we want to we can't mold Home into what we want,,, we have to do what’s best for everyone.
That's exactly what I'm thinking too, LBE. How can we tell the Home Team to get their act together, when we the community don't even get our act together ourselves?
Well I dont know where to post this but here I go I want you to be able to get o know the managemen t team and be able to socialize I will post more later lol. I am not in the best shape.
Mahatma Gandhi said, "Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress", and I believe this to be true. It is how we come together to express these differences and indeed to move past them and work for the common goals we all share that will define us. Will we fight amongst each other until we have nothing left to fight for, or will we stand together and shape this world into something better - something we all may be proud to call Home?
yo crunk i fo dis. de otha day i wuz at da conveenens sto pickin up sum sundrees. slipin out wif a few tings unda my hoody da clerk sez yo u gotta pay fo dat. i wuz like pay fo wat cuz wut in my hoody be mine fare n square. he started to call da cops an sed i was on vid. see we had our difs but we sort em out and i giv em back most of da stuf. see da same gos fo home. sony needs to giv us mo items an maybe we giv em somethin bak and evree1 happy.
i jus wana evree1 to no dat i has my own blog at homepimpin.blogspot.com.
dis be tha last time i promote dat becuz crunk site is hoppin n da peeps see it fo sho. home pimpin blog all bout da way home be today wit da freaky peeps n central plaza. i rely did sum fine work on da blog, mayb spends five minuts or so befo i had ta scatta cuz i on a pc at da libary down da street an sumtimes dey kick me off dat wen da pics get 2 dirtay! ha well thanksfuly i got dis iphone dat sum1 left behind at da starbuks. so ifs u has a story bout doin sum jig in sum punks face or doin sumpin use best not be doin we wanna here about dat.
tanks and peace!
i'd like to participate in H.O.D. i sent Crunk a message on Twitter but maybe he didn't see it. but i'm more than willing to participate in an open, civil, organized debate.
send me a friend request Kapow in Home and I'll get you an invite.
ok, cool. i'll do that when i get Home after class.
Great Job you guys... I am working on the Video now... I was trying out a new recoring method and it got a bit scrambled... I have crisp sound and the whole meeting, Yet the video is at about 75 % speed up value some how lol... I will also Transcribe the conversation so that you guys can post it in the forums or where ever you feel it will do the most good...