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Since the Policy changes have you felt like a leper?

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Priscellie:
I know that whenever I lock a thread, I'll post an explanation.  In my experience, the other mods have been good about doing the same.  If a thread was locked without comment, dollars to donuts it was done automatically due to thread age.

Abeille:
I do understand where David is coming from, I have been so afraid to post anything since the policy change... I used to be on here all day every day posting away and feeling at home. Now, I am afraid to do that because I dont want to do or sy the wrong thing. I have really just started posting again, and already I have ruffled some feathers... The policy changes are logically for the good, but it is hard to remember that.

David one Mutts Friend:

--- Quote from: David one Mutts Friend on July 07, 2010, 01:56:53 AM ---I will try Fred, and I hope that my thought process have gone to snot.
And that would be a waste.
David

--- End quote ---

I have been gone a week and looking back on the last week and a half prior to that I now can see a steady deterioration of my thought process in here and other forums. This forum was just the start of a rant lasted close to a day. It was chemically induced by prescriptions. I am no longer taking that poison cocktail.
Now I can not even get back where I was going with this thread.

David   

Shecky:
Yikes. Best of luck, my friend.

Persephone:
While I do feel posting here a month after the last post is a trifle close to nechromancy by the new thread age standards... Nonetheless I shall try to say my piece.

I don't feel like a 'leper' but I do still feel quite lost in the new forum. I always liked the fact that the threads ran long, and the topics had a chance to grow and mutate and become far more interesting, and often hilarious, before they reached 50 pages and got cut. Conversations were easier to play out without a chronological 'enddate', and since threads now END at the last post, new threads are often started days later, with no way to keep track of what was previously said.

I also desperately miss the 'Angst' corner. Yes, there was drama there (that was the point) and some of it was intense, but it was also cathartic to have a place to simply explode in text... Knowing you would have sympathy and empathy from intelligent friends. While I appreciate the efforts to create 'advice threads', most of the time I don't need or want ADVICE... I want to say "X really sucks and I hate it" and someone else can say "I know how you feel" "Feel better" "hugs" or some other heartfelt plattitude that helps get me through the day.

I know the place got ruined by people with too much drama. I know at least once I lost my head. I also know that what's done has been done. Probably for good. Probably forever. But I miss the old Macs. I miss my friends, and there's a void in my online social life where the old bar used to be. I miss the fun, the wackiness, and the way a thread could wander through twelve distinctly different subjects before it lost steam.

Like I said, what's done is done. I don't expect that what I'm saying will really affect a change, and I'm not deleting my account and running away. but I just had to say I miss the way it was. This place doesn't feel like home anymore, it feels more like a hotel... You're welcome to visit, just make sure your thread checks out on time.
That's all I'm going to say. Please don't take this to mean I need to get banned.

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