imo, the Accident forum and the Passing forum should merge into one....,,we are humans with emotions,we are not automatrons...when we see someone involved in an accident we always want to condole and symphatize with them....(moderators pls consider the idea of merging the Accident forum and the Passing forum,thanks)....separating them doesn't make sense to me. imo
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imo, the Accident forum and the Passing forum should merge into one....,,we are humans with emotions,we are not automatrons...when we see someone involved in an accident we always want to condole and symphatize with them....(moderators pls consider the idea of merging the Accident forum and the Passing forum,thanks)....separating them doesn't make sense to me. imo
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DevonDiver
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It's fine to have an opinion, but please choose the right place to express it. The A&I and Passings forums not being the right places to discuss Scubaboard Terms of Service or forum rules.
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I can see the reason for the separation. When trying to determine what went wrong with an incident, people who are close to the victim are hypersensitive to any inflection stating that perhaps the accident or incident could have been avoided. People who want to be consoled rather than read about how their loved one could stil be alive "if........" can avoid the emotional trauma that reading about how it could have been prevented can start healing. Both venues have merit and a place on SB. We need to be sensitive to those that are in mourning and those that want or are looking for answers so the same thing doesn't happen to them or those they care about. JMO
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It was on A&I wasn't it?
It's great to have both. More threads should be started in Passings, perhaps with links from the Accident threads. I remember A&I threads going sour because some wanted to discuss the accident but others objected since they wanted to express sad feelings without such.
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Rovic,
The Passings forum was created (about a year ago?) to try and clear up the A & I forums where real information is pretty scarce as it is. It was even harder to make heads or tails of things when one had to flip through pages and pages of condolences to find the facts in between. I think the idea is that A & I is a place for dispassionate analysis whereas Passings is by nature a more emotional outlet. If you check back a couple of years and look at some of the A & I postings from that time, I think you'll see some of the problems alluded to above. What often seemed to happen is people started harping on each other for not being compassionate about potential survivors that might be reading the analysis thread which often point out possible errors made by the deceased. I'm pretty pleased with the seperation of the forums and it seems to have left more leeway for meaningful analysis.
The Passings forum was created (about a year ago?) to try and clear up the A & I forums where real information is pretty scarce as it is. It was even harder to make heads or tails of things when one had to flip through pages and pages of condolences to find the facts in between. I think the idea is that A & I is a place for dispassionate analysis whereas Passings is by nature a more emotional outlet. If you check back a couple of years and look at some of the A & I postings from that time, I think you'll see some of the problems alluded to above. What often seemed to happen is people started harping on each other for not being compassionate about potential survivors that might be reading the analysis thread which often point out possible errors made by the deceased. I'm pretty pleased with the seperation of the forums and it seems to have left more leeway for meaningful analysis.
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I think the first Passings thread was started on February 18th, 2007, but there haven't been that many. It's a bother to ask a Mod to move posts and start one every time someone posts condolences on an A&I thread, but I don't have any good ideas on how to prevent such.
I think it's best when members who knew the deceased personally start them.
I think it's best when members who knew the deceased personally start them.
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