I’ve thought of starting this thread for quite a while, and something I read this afternoon finally pushed me to do it.
The idea here is to give recognition to folks who have joined the ranks of active posters recently who have made a positive impression on you. (Your definition of “recently,” and nobody is shut out from posting – if you joined two weeks ago and think that somebody who joined a month ago is someone special, say so!).
First, two GD habitués that have left me thoughtful, smiling, with new insights, and otherwise pleased to have known them. They’re well past real “newbie” status now, but nobody did this for them when they were:
Copaesthetic is one of the people who really make life worth living – the man is brilliant, compassionate, fun to read, and best of all, he thinks a lot like me! (he said modestly ;))
Priam is a teenager who is following in the shoes of Jester, who joins the ranks of legal adults in the near future – thoughtful, intelligent, and mature. His posts belie his calendar age, but speak volumes of his emotional age, which is apparently about triple his calendar one!
The thing that motivated me to start this, however, is seeing the third post by Agent537 in this thread. In a very offhand way, responding to an OP about a messy teenager, he mentions having six years ago married a woman with a 16-year-old mentally deficient son, and having taught him some household chores and the boy’s pleasure at having become a contributing member of the household through doing them (which was the connection to the OP). IMHO, a person who take on that sort of responsibility and then simply mentions it as a matter of course in making a quite different point is emphatically, in the wise phrase of Spider Robinson, One of the Nice Ones.
Kudos to all three of you!
Okay, MPSIMSites, who’s impressed you lately among the new Dopers?
Nice idea, though.