All the cool people that played fast and loose with the rules got banned. lol
I thought your user name seemed familiar.
lol. I wasn't referring to you. I doubt you whine or report ppl. Where ever you stand on any particular issue, you are generally a free thinker. Your ego isn't vested in being right all the time. Not so much that you need to report folks having fun and get nasty about rules violations. That's what killed the fun in this place.
Mostly the site has degraded since 2012 because of the hyper sensitive PC police and sticklers for the rules that constantly tattle on their fellow forum mates. Remember when we were kids and there was this code that you don't snitch and you had fun? Well, this place isn't as fun as it used to be because those types of folks killed the fun.
When I incur a code violation, I disappear for a few months till it drops from my record. That's how I manage to hang on. I don't NEED this place like the addicts do, but I like to watch it wither and change with the character of the nation.
In other words, you're not that important, here......
Nah, It just means that I'm not so addicted that I NEED to be here after I have incurred a violation. I know how to keep my mouth shut, disappear, and take a break when I am skating on thin ice.
You are fooling yourself if you think ANYONE is "important" here. Nobody is important. If you left, if I left, we would all be forgotten in a few months except by the few people who we affected and communicated with. So it is with life. Your life only has meaning to you. You may leave a mark, either with your accomplishments for the next generation, or the next, but in the long run, you aren't important.
Don't let your ego be the mark of who you are. If you live in that world, you are thinking on a material plane. Like, the feeling of "importance," or "success," it is the measure of how you define the worth of your life. If it is, you will never find happiness, not true happiness. Fear of the shadow of death will always inform and influence all of your points of view and opinions. Truth will not be the final arbitrator of your opinions, only the desire to "be remembered," or "be successful," or "to feel important." These should never be the source from which we post our ideas.
And in truth, that is a futile and selfish pursuit. From this path, only the short sighted and immature try to achieve such fleeting accolades and notoriety.
The noble try to bring justice and truth to all humankind even if the positions they take are not popular or well liked.