(06-26-2019, 09:12 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(06-25-2019, 09:41 PM)anonymous2112 Wrote: A few observations before this thread goes away:

I found TMD annoying as hell toward the end.  Never hated him or anything, but I don't miss him either.
JDub obviously had Asbergers, and I was able to get my empathy on while she was annoying the rest of you.  

So it makes me wonder, if the same person who couldn't stand TMD could get take JDub and her type of OCD, is the opposite true?  If you could handle TMD, did that automatically make you predisposed to disliking JDub?

As for the like button, it was done in by spite.  Seems there's a lot of it going around lately, but then maybe it's always been there and I was too dumb to notice.  Odds are better than even that the board will lose some other feature that some of us dig before the year is out to the same emotion.

Oh, and good job mods and Admin.  The board ain't what it used to be, but that's not y'all's fault.

I was a mere lurker during TMD's time, and didn't post much while JW was re-editing everyone's posts, but I have canceled many a post when emotion intervenes and either takes away from the point I am trying to make, or resulted in a draft that would likely get me a warning. There's some other folks on here that annoy me or post what I feel is drivel, but I usually just move on to the next post, in hope that some worthwhile content is posted to a thread.

I didn't really have an issue with TMD or JW when they were contributing to a discussion. When they weren't, though, the board became a back and forth bickering session with everyone attempting to get the last word. Like you said, there a lot of that going around lately, too.

I don't envy the mods for having to put up with the inane retaliations that are likely still going on. But, in the case with TMD and JW, they were given warnings, and direction on how to play nice with the rest of the group. They refused to budge, or allowed old habits to resurface, and are now gone. I can only hope that the same is happening to discourage the pettiness around here.

Exactly.  If you had any idea how much work was done behind the scene to get them to just slightly modify their behavior, they'd still be posting on the board.  In both instances, they couldn't follow some simple rules, and after being banned so many times it was getting ridiculous, we had to initiate a permanent ban.  I think we've done that maybe 3 or 4 times over the years for repeat offenders.

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