What happened to Paleo and darqstar? Are they really gone? If so, I think we have some soul searching to do. Having seen TSR from the inside, they are some of our most credible members.
Well that depends entirely on why they left. They weren't exactly happy sunshine fuzzy wuzzy bunnies themselves, however martyred they're choosing to pretend to be now.
I don't think anyone accused either me or darq of being happy sunshine bunnies. When did DOW state that? That is putting words in someone's mouth and is a large helping of FAIL.
FAIL 1 (I am going to keep count). She said she wanted to know why or if we left. I cannot talk for darq. I can only talk for myself. So, I am breaking my silence to do just that. More than likely, I will go back to lurking after this.
So, you don't know why I left but you are stating that we are choosing to pretend to martyr ourselves. That is a bunch of logic FAIL.
FAIL 2.
Point of fact I pretty much lurk. If you bothered to check the screen on the bottom or the viewers at the top of the thread, you would have seen my name. I made no effort to hide. I don't even know if I can hide my status. I check the TSR threads every once in a while. I stopped posting without a bunch of fanfare because that is called souping and is seriously frowned upon. Plus, it just isn't my style. I don't flail around stating that I am leaving or why I am leaving. I either just leave or stop posting and lurk. If you tell people why you are leaving then you are souping, if you don't then, according to neriana you are making yourself a martyr. Gee, neriana, I would love to have seen what you called me if I had made an announcement that I was going into lurker mode. So, people cannot win no matter what they do. That sounds like forum culture FAIL.
FAIL 3.
I typed out some other stuff, but then realized that THEY are not here, and having an argument with YOU about why THEY left is utterly ludicrous, as well as being pretty damned "uncivil".
Yes, because calling someone a martyr when you have no idea why someone left is certainly civil. I call Civil FAIL.
FAIL 4.Lumping two individuals together, each of whom has their own mind and own reasons for not posting, while not uncivil, is fucking stupid. Guess what? I am not darqstar, I am a completely different and autonomous individual. I have no idea if she lurks here or if she will ever read this. BECAUSE I AM NOT HER. Actually, I think I will call her and share this with her. That ought to be fun.
I am not even going to include this in my fail count, because it goes beyond fail.
They chose to leave and not say why, though it seems they talked to you about it.
Assumption FAIL.
FAIL 5. I don't know about darqstar BECAUSE I AM A COMPLETELY SEPARATE PERSON, but I did not explain to anyone here why I chose to stop posting. DOW PM'd me today to ask me. I have not responded yet because it would take some long assed typing.
To anyone who does that because they got pissy, I say don't let the door hit you on the way out.
I didn't stop posting because I got pissy. Despite the fact that you tried to worm your way out of directing this to me and darq by stating "to anyone", I am considering that your post is in direct response to DOW's question on my whereabouts, and I am calling Assumption FAIL 2.
FAIL 6.
What, we're supposed to suck up to people who used to be at TSR now? Puh-lease!
Who said that you should? DOW asked where I was and where darqstar was due to the fact that we had some inside experience at TSR and it looks like she was concerned about some credibility issues. No one said anything about sucking up. Way to set up a
straw man argument there. I call Fallacy FAIL.
Fail 7. I either have no idea or I do not remember why you have such a hard-on for me and/or darqstar neriana. But if you are going to go after me, please put forth a bit more effort. This was really lame.