[dirtboy]

If I inderstand your post correctly, the vile behavior we have witnessed over the past week is justifiable retribution, and also to be expected in this forum because that is the norm elsewhere.

Unless you were lurking, I guess you weren't here in 1999. This is tame by comparision.

But part of the problem is, some folks starting making FR way too personal over the last two or three years. I heard talk of enemies and coordinated attacks, and saw a few of them myself. It used to be you could be engaged in a flame war one day and be buddies again the next. Unfortunately, FR drifted away from that approach and became factionalized. And this ain't the first faction to end up getting tossed because they tried to tell JimRob where the forum should be going and JimRob decided he didn't want to go there.

In the end, for many of those who got the boot, they lived by the zot. And then died by the zot. They helped create this environment, so they have no grounds to complain when they became victim to the Frankenstein monster they created. And the other factions who had been subject to their monster cheered when their creation turned on them. That's just human nature.

So things will settle down and anothe block of posters will probably eventually coalesce and create new factions and we'll do this all over again some day.

[don-o]

I heard talk of enemies and coordinated attacks, and saw a few of them myself.

Did they steal the strawberries?

[dmw]

BTTT

[Kryptonite]

Very well put.

I expect more civility and ingenuity here moving forward here at FR than I've seen in the last 2-3 years.

Many of those who've committed FReepercide were so predictable and boring that it's like a nice, fresh spring cleaning has occurred. New approaches to challenging issues are seen sprouting up from different people, just like emergent wildflowers alongside a forest trail.

I can smell the fresh air as I type.