[WEIRDWOLF]

I see the tiresome stuff probably more than anyone, but I also see the very good stuff. In my eyes the good out weighs the negative.

When someone is in bad health or lost someone, the community offers them prayers and wishes. When someone has a question about how to do something, they usually get an answer or someone calls them personally to assist them. When we ask for donations to help those who have lost a job, yet they don't want to lose their membership, people stepped up and donated to help them. Seeing the great painters works...Guttmann, Mega, Gridiron, French Guy, 5-13 and many others. Game play by plays from coaches that are exciting to read. Seeing new leagues start up and posting about their first games. The photos of the cool game action from around the country and the world for that matter.

Yes there are times things get out of hand. Do you watch the news on TV? Things get out of hand all around us everyday that have nothing to do with miniature football. The funny thing is, when the messy posts start up is when the forum is at its busiest. Everybody tunes in to see the car crash. I can back that statement up with stats. I wish those that need the drama in their lives would find other things to do, but they tend to hang around because we feed them by responding to their drama. We do it, just like we turn on the TV every night to see the news.

It will NEVER be perfect and some people just don't have the time for a forum and get their needed info from their league mates. That is cool. It's really not about just being on this site...that isn't important...its about people finding that this game still exists and finding leagues and coaches around them that can help them. If that is all this site does (and it has helped with that) then we are fulfilling part of our purpose.

We will continue to monitor the craziness so that the new people don't have to be exposed to it. As for those that have been around a while, people are people. To stay away from something as GOOD as this forum can be because of a few bad apples is doing a disservice to the MFCA. Post more...not less, so that the bad posts have no place to rest. If we would do that, the drama would for the most part stop and the bad apples would find somewhere else to lurk.

Now, I'll go have my third cup off coffee...i'm feeling less cranky.