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[Moonchilde]

On 11/3/2014 dooBdoo said:

On 11/2/2014 moonchilde said:

On 11/2/2014 dooBdoo said:

On 11/2/2014 kdgn said:

I'm sorry that I didn't copy the original post, moonchilde. It was a masterpiece-and I mean that with sincerity.

I thought it was well-done, too, kdgn, as were her responses on the thread. Maybe she kept a copy? I've gotten into the habit of writing my posts on my Notes or TextEdit on my Mac first, mainly because this darned website has so many glitches and I've gotten tired of losing my posts to those bugs.

Nope, no copies. Over the years I've become both philosophical about losing posts due to glitches, and pretty enured to snark and venom. I've gone through every emotion about my online life in years past. At this point I let myself be pleasantly surprised and pleased by unexpected "connecting" and support (thank you), and mostly unfazed by the never-unexpected negative side of forums and etc.

I feel the same way about posts that go "poof" because what we post here is ephemeral, after all. I can understand all the emotions, too, and I think (hope) I'm moving into a time when I'm more realistic and less idealistic about the forums and posters here. I think I have to accept that fact that the community is not well-moderated and that no manner of suggestions or complaints will effect real change.

I don't mind snark - I can be snarky - but the moderation is so uneven that a mild comment can be poofed if the right people report it, and the "right people" can say truly vicious, nasty stuff and that gets left alone. So what bothers me is the unevenness of the playing field ;-( If it's moderated it should BE moderated; if they're not going to moderate it then anything goes should be for *every* poster.

[Snik]

Moon, for 17 years I trained Medical students at a local Medical School- We had a theory, in order to put each 6 student group with a physician instructor/mentor. that Myers Briggs would help us to put together more cohesive groups..

But how? Should we put opposite together? likes together? what would work? So we did an experiment one year and administered the test to all incoming students with this as our goal.. 80% of med student tested to be introverts so that in itself was an interesting finding..

Needless to say, we had no better luck picking groups by "type" than we had by randomly assignlng them..

But it DID make for an interesting school year..knowing what "type"everyone was..Instructors included.. VERY few (if any) were like me..but I got along with most...

[Moonchilde]

On 11/3/2014 Snik said:

Moon, for 17 years I trained Medical students at a local Medical School- We had a theory, in order to put each 6 student group with a physician instructor/mentor. that Myers Briggs would help us to put together more cohesive groups..

But how? Should we put opposite together? likes together? what would work? So we did an experiment one year and administered the test to all incoming students with this as our goal.. 80% of med student tested to be introverts so that in itself was an interesting finding..

Needless to say, we had no better luck picking groups by "type" than we had by randomly assignlng them..

But it DID make for an interesting school year..knowing what "type"everyone was..Instructors included.. VERY few (if any) were like me..but I got along with most...

Wow - 80% introverts is a bit surprising. I would have guessed it might be more like 60/40.

I think one of the original ideas was to help people of different types understand what makes each other tick, and importantly, the differences in how they problem solve. But you really have to study all types to do that, and of course most people are only seriously interested in their own type ;-)

[Snik]

On 11/3/2014 moonchilde said:

On 11/3/2014 Snik said:

Moon, for 17 years I trained Medical students at a local Medical School- We had a theory, in order to put each 6 student group with a physician instructor/mentor. that Myers Briggs would help us to put together more cohesive groups..

But how? Should we put opposite together? likes together? what would work? So we did an experiment one year and administered the test to all incoming students with this as our goal.. 80% of med student tested to be introverts so that in itself was an interesting finding..

Needless to say, we had no better luck picking groups by "type" than we had by randomly assignlng them..

But it DID make for an interesting school year..knowing what "type"everyone was..Instructors included.. VERY few (if any) were like me..but I got along with most...

Wow - 80% introverts is a bit surprising. I would have guessed it might be more like 60/40.

I think one of the original ideas was to help people of different types understand what makes each other tick, and importantly, the differences in how they problem solve. But you really have to study all types to do that, and of course most people are only seriously interested in their own type ;-)

yep! so true! are you a July person?

[Snik]

Not to sound TOO weird, but Sydney Omarr used to call Cancers "moonchildren"

[sylviahomeatlast]

I'm sorry to butt in on this thread. I had turned my computer off when I thought an (anonymous) poster might have been right about me. This person indicating I was bitter, mean etc for posting on a thread where there was fun , perhaps at another's expense. I looked for the one and she/he turned up here and now I'm not so sure I was the bad guy. sorry.

[pitdakota]

Well I missed the thread Moonchilde, but welcome to the club!!

And from the compliments here it seems you had some great thoughts and contributions!!

[dooBdoo]

On 11/3/2014 sylviahomeatlast said:

I'm sorry to butt in on this thread. I had turned my computer off when I thought an (anonymous) poster might have been right about me. This person indicating I was bitter, mean etc for posting on a thread where there was fun , perhaps at another's expense. I looked for the one and she/he turned up here and now I'm not so sure I was the bad guy. sorry.

You're not the bad guy, sylvia.

[Moonchilde]

On 11/3/2014 Snik said:

Not to sound TOO weird, but Sydney Omarr used to call Cancers "moonchildren"

Yep. I'm a July baby :-)

[Suziepeach]

On 11/3/2014 sylviahomeatlast said:

I'm sorry to butt in on this thread. I had turned my computer off when I thought an (anonymous) poster might have been right about me. This person indicating I was bitter, mean etc for posting on a thread where there was fun , perhaps at another's expense. I looked for the one and she/he turned up here and now I'm not so sure I was the bad guy. sorry.

Sylvia, sorry to butt in as well- if you are speaking of the same person spoken about earlier, you are not any sort of bad guy. It loves being a bully yet shows another side to a certain few posters- you know that all sweet gooey side- phooey! No, you are not the bad buy- I am staying away because of it.. seems to follow certain ones around like a shadow and watches each and every word said.