05-07-2017, 08:33 AM
(05-07-2017, 08:32 AM)irukandji Wrote:(05-07-2017, 08:31 AM)speakeasy Wrote:(05-07-2017, 08:18 AM)irukandji Wrote:(05-07-2017, 08:09 AM)speakeasy Wrote:(05-07-2017, 07:50 AM)irukandji Wrote: You know, I tried to stay out of this, but this is a new low for you. By the way, this argument of yours is nothing new. A year ago I heard from another poster, the long and sad tale of woe about all of the posters who left because of a few miscreants.
Well, I have news for you. It's not true. Believe it or not, speakeasy, people have brains, they leave because the forum has nothing more to offer them.
If you were so all fired up sad and dismayed at what you perceived as a mass exodus, why then didn't you do something about it? According to you, you've been here since the beginning. You're a figurehead. So, why didn't you do something about it?
One reason is that it takes a while to see the perspective from a distance, another reason that is a person has to choose which causes to take up at any specific time of life. I became fired up of late because the show ended and I no longer had the desire to not publicly call out other posters for their positions.
I was complimented to be offered the post of Moderator some time back and had to turn it down because of my change of heart about this forum's direction. I have lost my sense of tolerance for certain opinions on this fan site and it's been replaced by intolerance for what I view as a negative influence and a sinister overlay to what was meant to be light entertainment.
Exactly. It's your view. So please be an adult and look at it that way instead of making up some imaginary blame that multitudes left because of a few people. That is beneath you and it's a complete and total lie.
When I came on, the forum was not what I would call lively. You weren't even on it that much.
I've read your posts and I admire them even though I hold a completely opposite view.
We're a couple of exaggerators, aren't we? You just called me a liar. I'm as adult as I'm ever going to be, but I do credit myself with the ability to see the difference between multitudes or an exodus of some kind, and the intent of my post about people not contributing to the conversation now. Tone it down just a little.
The point is, no one left because of me. It might soothe your vanity to think so, but that is not true. Give them a little credit for having the brains to leave on their own, will you?
Don't take it so personally, I meant people who post like you and there are more than one.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell - printed on a beer mat in "Shaun of The Dead".