11-04-2016, 04:46 AM
I've never seen anywhere near this volume. And frankly, if you're deleting posts you wrote in the Pig's Arse then you're definitely not using that forum right!
I see two things happening -- a fear of offending people and the development of cliques. These always go together. I can't operate in that kind of environment and neither can a lot of the members who used to be regular posters here and have "disappeared". They haven't evaporated.
I love this site. It used to be unique in that people could take their arguments into the Sewer or the Pig's Arse, where it's illegal* to take offense, hashing it out and then coming back into the main domain breathing more clearly. There were no eggshells to walk on. One of the boasts that we could make about this place was that we didn't have precious poets demanding that everyone love them -- but I'm not sure that's still true.
So. Stop deleting, stop making sock puppets, be yourselves. You never know: that might actually work once in a while.
*See billy for the list of penalties involving different kinds of noodles.
I see two things happening -- a fear of offending people and the development of cliques. These always go together. I can't operate in that kind of environment and neither can a lot of the members who used to be regular posters here and have "disappeared". They haven't evaporated.
I love this site. It used to be unique in that people could take their arguments into the Sewer or the Pig's Arse, where it's illegal* to take offense, hashing it out and then coming back into the main domain breathing more clearly. There were no eggshells to walk on. One of the boasts that we could make about this place was that we didn't have precious poets demanding that everyone love them -- but I'm not sure that's still true.
So. Stop deleting, stop making sock puppets, be yourselves. You never know: that might actually work once in a while.
*See billy for the list of penalties involving different kinds of noodles.
It could be worse