An OOC community will not help things. We need to learn to put our big girl panties on and directly communicate with the people (hey, look there, in this comment and the previous I never said I was being singled out. I used myself as an example. For the most part, I used a plural, as I realize I'm part of the problem but only part) involved. If Josie had PMed or IMed me and said "Hey, sorry, I can't continue this thread," I would have understood. If I hadn't, that's grounds to go to a moderator. Every little thing doesn't have to go to a mod. Only when you can't work things out between the two of you is when you need to go further up. Would you go to the district manager if someone was being a little spacey headed? It's far more effective to go up to the person and ask if something is wrong, and if that doesn't change things, go to the supervisor. This is similar. We're doing posts like these instead of practicing what we preach. We're not communicating. Instead, we're putting out posts like these and saying we need to communicate instead of actually doing so.

Weaknesses... hell, I've got a vampire you can knock out, put into an east facing room he hasn't been invited into with the curtains drawn, and watch him bleed to the point he can't get out and get away from what will turn him into ashes.