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Originally Posted by Quinn
4) No more pissed off goodbye threads. If you’ve been piled on to the point where your feelings are hurt and you want to leave, you almost certainly did something to merit that treatment. Take some responsibility for yourself already. Conversely, I’ve appreciated some of the positive goodbye threads posted here recently.
That said, I second Quinn on the above, as that's exactly how I see it, except for that last sentence. I admit I don't bother with "I'm Leaving" threads really, but the ones I've seen in the last few weeks, whether you deem them "positive" or not, have been made by people who've hurled alot of abuse at others, at times warranted and at others, not. So, I have problems seeing these goodbye threads as positive, when the fact is that the people posting them simply don't have the stomach to receive as good as they give. Bottom line, I've dish it out, received it back in kind, and I'm still here, like it or not. If I cry about how so-and-so called me a name, who would give a shit? People have seen my posts and know that I've done my fair share of name-calling too. Turnabout is fair play, IMHO.
I also think that if it's not against the rules to call a fool a fool, and no one wants to make doing so against the rules, then when someone responds in kind to a person who derides their expression of an opinion by calling them a "dickless pussy" and so forth, the person responding in kind should not be beset by other members asking them to control
themselves. You may have been here since HA began, but if your boy from way back then is an asshole, don't get on me for calling him one. Tell him to check himself before you say word one to me. There's too much of that shit going on here, and it's fucking ridiculous. And you know what I'm talking about too.