that not quite a call out that will get me banned - right?
I posted a diary today, that was meant to be humorous, satire, parody.
Some, maybe all of the Rescue Rangers, took offense at this passage:
Community Spotlight is only "parked" in it's current location, it's not staying . Sure right now, it's the big ugly Winnebago parked in front of the million dollar mansion right now. Lowering the neighborhood's home and land values, but it will leave!.
Some, maybe all of the Rescue Rangers, thought that I was calling Community Spotlight ugly.
I wasn't and never intended to have you think that I was impugning what you do.
I would never. You've rescued many of my diaries and I have pointed to that with pride to many family and friends. (My Sally Fields moment)
I was merely attempting to say, perhaps badly, that in the box it occupies now, it's current presentation, is ugly. Especially when compared to it's former presentation.
When I called it's current presentation a Winnabago in front of a million dollar mansion, ruining the property values, this is what was in my minds eye:
If fact I did praise the former presentation in the second paragraph
I liked the way it looked there, all polished in a light orange background, in it's own frame. I even liked the mouse over function that gave me the first few lines of the diary.
It was not a commentary on what you all do.
Whenever you have rescued one of my dairies I have always thanked you, And you've rescued many like this one, this one, and here's another one. Those dairies came to my mind without much effort BECAUSE of your rescue.
You have surprised me once and rescued this one..
What you do is important to me. To what I have written and what I read on DK that I would have never seen otherwise.
Your rescues have served as validation for me, and everyone deserves validation. Which is why I'm writing this now.
You may never rescue another diary of mine again. I won't like that, but that's not why I am writing this.
It's because I couldn't stand the thought that any one of the Rescue Rangers would think that I didn't value you or what you do. We all need validation, even you.
I apologize.