Ross

If my holdings are able to pay for my house, I feel like I’d be a fool not to do it. It’d lock in a ton of profit and I would no longer have a mortgage payment and would feel free to have my wife move to part time and spend more time with the kid. That legit may happen next year.

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Ross staying completely out everything says...he's either dead, doesn't give a shite, is enjoying site traffic, or his doing his job MODERATING

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exploring the joys of new fatherhood these days, so my bandwidth in life to stay in the weeds of internet drama has been dramatically reduced

I do have the general opinion that the one rule I ever historically attempted to enforce on this board was I did not want personal attacks to be the norm, but I always felt good natured ribbing was fine. This means you have to invoke some judgement calls, and to avoid controversy I veered towards only intervening when people really crossed a line. The ultimate goal is to promote good natured discussion surrounding Auburn sports and to avoid endless petty squabbles. I think this board did pretty well for many years with avoiding feuds, but I do think at some point the dynamics shifted. The role of the moderation group in my eyes is to not let those feuds derail threads actually seeking to have meaningful conversation and not to let the feuds get overly heated here. At the end of the day, it’s always going to be a judgement call on where the line is on this kind of thing.

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This forum in general is sad

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It’s a never ending trainwreck that’s hard to look away from

That chart pretty well tracks with my experiences on this board

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Trust me...when you see the name on a post and you know they are anti-Trump, woke, a Democrat, a girly boy, etc. just hit the down vote like I do and don't bother to read their dribble. They live for the attention since obviously they didn't get it as a child

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Does it concern you that if everyone adopted your worldview we’d just have groups of echo chambers that gradually lose the ability to even communicate with one another?

Man all this long air travel seems like it’s gonna be hell for the student athletes

Loneliness, nihilism, and ultimately fatalism are extremely prominent in Gen Z. Financial issues as well, but I think tackling the loneliness is priority 1.

I think fostering community engagement solves a lot of things if we can motivate people to pursue it. As a random but current example, I like that people play pickleball now in parks. That gives one outlet in which to meet new people and grow some empathy for your neighbors and ultimately gain friendships. I also think volunteer efforts through a church provide similar good opportunities.

Between witnessing this and the Hail Mary to beat UGA two weeks prior in person, I felt I had ascended to peak sports fandom and that nothing would ever top those moments.

I remember walking out of it thinking it wouldn’t age nearly as well as Infinity War. I tend to hate time travel gimmicks.

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You sound smart, I mean idiotic smart. Or maybe you just sound like an idiot.

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Man, you really narrowed it down here.