I've read all of the threads and followed this drama as it unfolded. I haven't written a word about it until now for one simple reason.
It amazes me how seriously everyone here has taken this whole thing. You are all aware that all this is at the end of the day is just some internet community on some internet website somewhere out in cyberspace. No one here is curing cancer. Yet everyone reacts to things around here like failure to follow a certain train of thought will result in the end of the world as we know it.
I think this is a great opportunity for everyone here to take a step back and stop taking yourselves so seriously. This little soap opera has been a great microcosm of life. Everyone has their own views on things. Some of which you may agree with and some of which you may not. People get defensive and overreact when attacked. Whether they deserve being attacked or not. Failure to confront someone in a mature, intelligent manner who you feel is straying off the path results in things getting blown out of proportion.
It never had to get this way. The fact that something that in the end is so insignificant to everyone's life has managed to amass such drama is pretty sad.
FTR used to be my little escape to some little internet community on some website somewhere out in cyberspace where I could read up on some insignificant game that I just happened to like and talk to other like-minded people. I wasn't looking to cure cancer. Just have a little fun.
It isn't that way anymore and it's very sad.
