I sit here and read all the venom and am amazed. You'd think we'd kicked your dog. This place has become a circus and it was high time to hose it down. In this board's first incarnation, there was no mechanism to meter posts so some went too far until others got upset, angry, and hurt. This iteration has those mechanisms; the mods have seen fit to leave it alone until now. I truly wish you all could see the long and agonizing road that culminated at this point. You have no idea....
I also wish we had implemented this last year. Perhaps by now the furor would have died down. I doubt it because some like to pick at it like a scab until it bleeds.
This board must get back to its initial concepts or die. Mods are tired and there are some days when we just don't think it's even worth it. There are days when we'd rather just walk away from the whole thing and never return. There's so much good here that we could not let that happen, even if our only payment is member vitriol.
So we banned the crap. All of a sudden, we are restricting free speech, we are completely corrupt/silly/immature/communistic (that's real nice), we should scrap sections of the site, etc. Doom and friggin gloom, the sky is falling. People are walking away, past slights are being dredged up as cudgels, and thread sniping is their raison d'être.
Well, guess what? We are not banning free speech. If you came into my house and started talking smack, I'd ask you to stop or leave. There is NO difference here and that is exactly what we are asking of you. Unbelievably, some are leaving. So who's immature?
Name calling, cudgel wielding, doom and gloom, there won’t be anything to talk about, sack the other forums, time to go, etc. Give me a friggin break. Did I just log onto bigbaby.com? Right now there are hundreds of topics in the Lounge and other forums. Pick one and post. Start a new thread.
So with that said, here’s a fact for you. The only thing that is changing on this site is the moderator’s ability to delete stupid threads without having to deal with reprisal . Every one of you knows EXACTLY which threads I am talking about so there’s no need to play coy.
For the majority that sees this as a positive, thank you. For those who are spewing the venom, hate, gloom, and negativity, you have a choice. I sincerely hope you stay.
