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Originally Posted by gblake
I realize that I'm trying to sweep back the ocean, but ...
I think it would be a good idea for people, in general, to stop worrying about the team someone is on when discussing anything, anywhere, unless the explicit topic being discussed is that person's team.
I know that there is a big, deep, and broad pool of sentiment that connects what individuals do to to observers' opinions about the entire team that *happens* to include that individual; but please; teams rarely get to choose their members, and teams with non-trivial membership rolls are going to be full of diverse attitudes about plenty of boring and exciting subjects.
If, in general, we spent more time discouraging a mindset of forming judgments about "teams", instead of "individuals", and invested less mental energy in viewing teams as mono-cultures (or in pushing them to be mono-cultures), I think this thread's topic would lose an important bit of urgency.
Blake
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I can tell you that, with only a few exceptions (generally, people I know and interact with regularly at events), I have no idea what team anyone is on here on CD, and I rarely look at the team number unless it's specifically relevant to the thread in question (most often if the location in the top right of a post indicates Minnesota and I want to see which event the team is going to or how close they are to me so I can get them appropriate help).
I would actually support "burying" the team number a bit - put it in the individual's profile instead of at the top of every post. That way if I care, I can click on to the profile and find it but it's not right out there for me to are on every post.