Some realities.
As I've mentioned, many of the people from my homeboard post on EI these days - some almost esclusively. As these are people I've known for about 5 years, I'd miss not being around them.
What happened on my homeboard is one of the reasons why I'm so against perma banning. We had a fairly popular member who is a bit nuts anyway, but fun, edge over the line a bit and too often and she got perma banned. She went to another board with overlapping membership - not EI, and blasted away at the mod on our board. I mean it got nasty - much nastier than this trollish game playing - it got personal and very hurtful. Some of us at the HB missed her and tried to keep in contact with her on the other board - but she was so obsessed with her perma ban it was to hard to be around her. Some of us at the HB wanted to avoid her like a pariah and got into shunning those of us who tried to keep our lost friend from going even further into the deep end. Two years later and she is stilll hopping around the internet shoving her version of the story down people's throats. And our HB, which was a very successful community with a membership of over 1000 and about 100 active and on-line posters every day, started dwindling. We lost some love for each other, some respect, some trust because we saw one of us go down and in flames. Some of us did nothing and others, what they did was of no use. It hurt, it divided us, and we've been diminished in more ways than one.
This is for D - if you're still reading over here since nobody seems too interested in your BS. You've recently accused me of not giving a shit. Your crap put me and O at odds, so much so we had a bloody fucking brawl and I had to whip his ass royally in public. That was at a great risk to myself, cost me some friendships with people I really liked, including O. All you had to do was quit being a nasty bitch and quit acting like the rest of us have to revolve around you and whatever hair gets up your butt in the morning. You accuse O of trolling you, flaming you, calling you names, blackmailing you. For more than two years you've been doing that and worse and I'm sick of it. O has offered you the olive branch many times and all you care to do is try to whip him with it. I'm going to say it to you again - get some professional fucking help because you need it seriously bad.
And that personal situation with D coming back to ground here recently also made me realize I don't want to be her - forever angry over a slight, a misunderstanding, an odd that doesn't mean much in the scheme of things and keeps me hanging in an insane limbo instead of moving on with the living.
And, as much as I like a good knock down drag out fight with TS, most days I'd rather play.
