[novella000]

HELP???
Doggone straight...
Most of the time, dang 99.9999% of the time, I don't even have to ask... The answers lay before me, in forums such as these. Can we say search? (that was for our Moderators )
The times I have needed input, advice, edification, clarification, etc. I get it, and it is WELL APPRECIATED...
I even help my fellow SFs when appropriate. Shoot, it's been 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days for me today. Utilizing those resources/aids such as my fellow SFs has been a tremendously rewarding experience for me. I have made sooo many Member/Sisterfriends. That's what we are supposed to do, that's the whole point.

BUT... There are times when I feel the same way Exquizit does...

Originally posted by exquizit:
...they comeback with .."Who in the HELL do YOU think you are and I don't see why they would have a problem...blah,blah, blah."
Then I'm like WTF? Maybe it's not my place to try to help them on things that are common knowledge, maybe I should let them get put on blast just as I was when I had my little stank attitude.
[This message has been edited by exquizit (edited May 14, 2001).]

Exquizit... I totally feel you!!!
I have to 'bite my fingers' (if you will) on MANY occasions, just because I KNOW that the Members themselves will handle the MAJOR trash... I used to spend a lot of time e-mailing fellow SFs privately to attempt to help them out with their pursuits.
I mean, dangonit, I was corrected a few times myself. But never in a million years would/could I just BLATENLY dish out the disrespect I see out here (on the 'net) on a common basis.
It's a humbling experience to be corrected, for whatever reason. I thank God that my Mama taught me HOW to recognize/give edification, and how to ignore/refrain from disrespectful behaviour...
A disrespectful person will always get their just desserts.
Some of the crap I read...
I swear, I just shake my head and sigh... It's like, okay "NO, who the helllll are you???" and at other time "OOOOOOOOOOOOOO she gon' get iiiiiitttt!!!"
I see why some SFs catch the verbal beat down...
How dare a person TRY to bite someone's head off after rudley posting a question (that could have easily found been answered with a simple search or two or three or four...)
Especially on the internet, where the warning emminates from every message board/club/forum high and low "YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IS READING!" Dang, do we (SFs) need another clue??? We shouldn't... but apparently some do.
Funny, I don't see a lot of this crap on campus(es).

I can't stand a lazy person.
Read dammyt, go to the Library, pull up a website, search a forum, and if you still have to ask, eat whatever comes your way. We can't expect people (Members) not to feel antagonized by some of the IRRITATING crap that's dished out by 'Ladies' who want what they've got.

Shooot, I know how I am when 10 different people ask me the same 10 questions, ALL DAY. By the time number 2 gets to question #3 I have to start praying to God for MORE patience...
Let's generalize things for a moment -- cuz this applies to LIFE.
I admonish all of my fellow SFs empathize with anyone who is in a position of having something someone else wants... It can be brutalizing when people try to RUDELY use you for what info you may have... or LAZILY ask you questions about something they could figure out themselves (especially when you worked your azz off to get what YOU have)... Then they expect a courteous and humble reply.
It behooves those of us in need of whatever information Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha may have to chill on the stank... Daayuuummm...
Being stank will get a person nothing but stank company.
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"No matter how worthy, admirable or fiercely desired the goal may be, it takes commitment and action to make it a reality."

[This message has been edited by novella000 (edited May 17, 2001).]