Goodbye guys

I hope they all come back and everyone gets unbanned. I'm not gonna judge anyone for bailing because I know firsthand what kinda nest of vipers this place can turn into at times. I had to leave once until some sillydust settled too, and if I hadn't deleted my account I'd have been on here using up energy that was better used elsewhere.
If any of the guys that left are really gone for good, I'll miss them.

Surely it matters more than worrying about your own post count.

@ The people who deleted their accounts

Hemingway'd

These sort of issues stretch back further than well over a year. More like ever since the boards have existed.



You're right. It doesn't matter to me. In fact, my feelings vary about the users who left from "I kinda don't like that guy" to "I kinda like that guy" but again, nothing too strong really.

That said. I don't see how that doesn't make my comment any less valid.



It's not really that difficult to get both sides because it's not complicated. Again, power struggles for the tone of the board have been going on between mods and other users for a long time.



Ah, but you see by posting their qualms in a public forum, your friends have opened themselves up to commentary from people who aren't involved in the situation directly. They did this as a public act of protest, not a private one.

If they only wanted their friends and supporters to comment on it, they should have p.m.-d only their friends and supporters in the community. Otherwise they open themselves up to obvious observations from the rest of the board.



Actually, there are plenty of really knowledgable, fun-to-talk-to contributors still on the boards. They're just generally not quite as loud about it as these guys were.

At the end of the day, my comment was meant as a bit of mild satire. If you found it dismissive, it's because I do dismiss this as a major problem, one worth removing your presence from a community over.

I take the long view. Inforoo was around before these guys came. It worked just fine then too. It'll be around if they choose to come back or not.

I wasn't really talking about myself. I was thinking of other posters (brewboss is a good example though). I'm not really around enough these days, like you said. Besides, I've never been much of an inclusive, clique starting poster...more of an outside on my lawn yelling at teenagers, grumpy old man crank.

But really, my whole point is more a commentary on their actions rather than those guys as posters on this board. I think what they did was pointless and silly and vain. That's why I brought up something I did that was pointless and silly and vain.

So who left? I feel that I missed a lot...

Ooh that kinda sucks. But I'm sure a few of them will be back soon.

Sad to see Zapp Go, but in all fairness he did not really leave for the same reasons that the others did.

I actually liked Juggs telling me that I'm not funny

I hope he'll be back.

So that didn't last long. Truth be told, I didn't delete my account to create drama or seem like a drama queen, and if that's what it seemed like, then so be it. I deleted it because I am hopelessly addicted to wasting time on here, and hoped I wouldn't have the urge to come here so much if I didn't have an account anymore. Wrong.

I miss talking music with you guys. I can't speak for the others, but my decision to leave, however brief it may have lasted, had nothing to do with thinking we had tyranical mods chaining our thoughts and words with proverbial shackles; it was purely because, god d*mn I spend too much time here. Guess it's back to that. Oh well. I tried. I probably seem like a fool, but oh well. Sorry for being a "lady flower".

Me and CKS