"The decision was made, and we live with it, or we don't."
IMO, there was no purge.
That site was up and running 5/6 weeks before the 20k + post thread was started.
Many of them were posting under different screen names, which were changed to their FR names later.
They made a very loud, and very public exit, probably to draw attention to the site.
So...there was no purge.
They made the decision to leave.
It was a mutiny.
Never realized that. Makes sense now.
You know it, seems to me if I was a member of a forum where I didn’t really like or agree with most of the people, I would just leave. No juvenile theatrics, just quit.
These WAckos are just a bunch of whining little babies.
You can try the links that I posted in #70, although if sofaman has been active over there since then it would probably have changed.
Otherwise, you can just pick any anti-FReeper WAcko and do a search on their name and it will tell you the last time they were active. Then you go to the advanced search and in the "Discussion comment search" put their name in the author section (leave everything else blank) and it will show you the last thing they said that the public can view. In sofaman's case, his public post was two days old, but he had been active ten hours before.
That's the problem with forums that use "open source" type software as opposed to writing their own (like Jim Robinson and even the DUmmies have done), they cannot hide their activity even though we can't see what they're doing.