If I was going to leave, I would just leave and quit posting for awhile. I wouldn't go to the trouble of writing up something if I was that fed up!
I'm amazed that every opus is getting hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of replies (of course I'm helping that along now). For God's sake, this is a DISCUSSION forum. Sometimes it's gets heated and ugly - none of us are pure in everything that we've posted here. Sometimes we posit a minority view and it seems every other Freeper is smearing us. Other times we are in the mainstream of thought here and to the dissenter we seem to be part of the bully brigade. I'm truly not sure why someone feels the need to give a long public goodbye because they felt shouted down on one issue. Just ignore the thread if it gets too nasty and find another one to delve into (or just log off for a spell). Or enjoy the fight, whatever.