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I always respect their private meetings:
which are sparsely attended...
and mostly uninteresting...
I respect those threads, even though I am qualified (in the view of some of their own) to attend because their "church" played me for so many years.
So, IF they want threads like this to be their happy-place "echo chamber", then MARK THE THREAD as a private "caucus". Otherwise, they will face criticism.
This is an open forum.
“This is an open forum.”
Yes, it is, and everybody knows that. Still, they whine.