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« on: February 19, 2008, 04:01:46 AM »
Just to let everyone know I'm leaving again, it was a bad idea for me to come back in the first place after 3 months of Intensity rehab. :laugh:  I had asked for my account deleting but I'm not ready to just throw away all of my PM's yet (I have almost 3000 so its not going to be an easy task sorting them out), so I'll just go karma free and be removed from the elders group for now.

Personally I would have preferred to have left like I did last time- swap emails with the handful of people I wanted to keep in touch with and just log out.  Making an announcement like this is making me cringe. :-[   BUT- I don't want anyone making assumptions about why I left and/or using these supposed reasons as ammo in any argument.  (FFS last time it seems that certain people assumed Dunc and I were having relationship problems  ::) )

I am leaving because basically I'm sick of all the arguing.  It takes up too much of my time because I can't do anything half-heartedly- I always have to throw myself into it.   I don't think Intensity has stuck to the original vision. I feel its become more about picking sides and always being right than about being a site run by all its members.  People pick sides and don't bother even considering whether a different viewpoint might be just as valid.  I know people will disagree with me on this, hey what's new  :laugh:, but that's how it seems to me (and has done for a long time).

The fact that a dissenting voice might feel drowned about by the sea of people rushing to the defence of a popular member was something some of us actually used to worry about.  Hell the Free for all was first set up so that people could post as a guest about site policy (admittedly it never really got used that way).  Now we don't give a shit about avoiding the pack mentality. That may be Intensity in the free speech, only the toughest can take it  (unless your friends with staff and then you can get nannied) sense- but I don't think its what any of us who were there at the start envisioned.  I know things change and I can accept that- I just don't like the way things have changed here.

Chalk me down as someone who decided that being 'Intense' isn't always a desirable thing.
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Re: OK
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 04:10:23 AM »
meh. :-\ it was nice having you around.
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Re: OK
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2008, 06:04:35 AM »
It was fun.

Why not avoid the arguments? I manage to wonder through threads pretty much oblivious to the arguments and do not look into them. (I don't care or want to know)

Mind you my talent for being oblivious can extend WELL past any incidental arguments.   :-[

Take care.  :(
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I2 today is not i2 of yesteryear. It is a knitting circle. Those that participate be they nice or asshats know their place and the price to be there. Odeon is the overlord

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Think it is I2 of old? Even Odeon is not so delusional as to think otherwise. He may on occasionally pretend otherwise but his base is that knitting circle.

Censoring/banning/restricting/moderating myself, Calanadale & Scrapheap were all not his finest moments.

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Re: OK
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2008, 06:45:54 AM »
You can send me your P.Ms for storage. I only have 17  :(
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Re: OK
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2008, 06:48:40 AM »
Quote from: Dr. Vodka on February 19, 2008, 06:45:54 AM
You can send me your P.Ms for storage. I only have 17  :(

That's what you get for having a life. I have 365. Booyah!
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Re: OK
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2008, 07:06:22 AM »
Quote from: Last Dance! on February 19, 2008, 06:48:40 AM
Quote from: Dr. Vodka on February 19, 2008, 06:45:54 AM
You can send me your P.Ms for storage. I only have 17  :(

That's what you get for having a life. I have 365. Booyah!
I think it's more to do with being open. Same as why I talk about Dr Hugs.
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This brain could do with some more dimethyltryptamine.

What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? "I don't know and I don't care."

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Re: OK
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2008, 07:25:38 AM »

I'm bummed. Truly, I am.

I know it is quite a heavy load to expect any one person to heft, but I was looking forward to your voice, PI, at least bolstering the weakest and linking some of these ongoing quibbles into something meaningful.

This seems to be a gift of yours, quite a rare thing, actually.

Aside from that, I would rather know that you were doing the things that you want to do and feeling good about it.

*clumsy hug*
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Re: OK
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2008, 07:28:14 AM »
Quote from: Dr. Vodka on February 19, 2008, 07:06:22 AM
Quote from: Last Dance! on February 19, 2008, 06:48:40 AM
Quote from: Dr. Vodka on February 19, 2008, 06:45:54 AM
You can send me your P.Ms for storage. I only have 17  :(

That's what you get for having a life. I have 365. Booyah!
I think it's more to do with being open. Same as why I talk about Dr Hugs.

So long as the Dr Hugs is not the name for your protologist
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I2 today is not i2 of yesteryear. It is a knitting circle. Those that participate be they nice or asshats know their place and the price to be there. Odeon is the overlord

.Benevolent if you toe the line.

Think it is I2 of old? Even Odeon is not so delusional as to think otherwise. He may on occasionally pretend otherwise but his base is that knitting circle.

Censoring/banning/restricting/moderating myself, Calanadale & Scrapheap were all not his finest moments.

How to apologise to Scrap

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Re: OK
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2008, 07:46:34 AM »
Quote from: Sir_Les_Patterson on February 19, 2008, 06:04:35 AM

Why not avoid the arguments? I manage to wonder through threads pretty much oblivious to the arguments and do not look into them. (I don't care or want to know)



Some can't. Indeed, that's really what the
site is intense about. Not the porn, and not
the spam.
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Re: OK
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2008, 07:47:27 AM »
You know my feelings on this,
and I'm sorry to see you go.

Hope to stay in touch.
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Re: OK
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2008, 07:53:08 AM »
Yeah hey I prefer to argue about superficial things and flame someone than delve into politics. I do not understand politics, the importance or have an interest I suppose.

I am not all peace and love I guess different things push my buttons.
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I2 today is not i2 of yesteryear. It is a knitting circle. Those that participate be they nice or asshats know their place and the price to be there. Odeon is the overlord

.Benevolent if you toe the line.

Think it is I2 of old? Even Odeon is not so delusional as to think otherwise. He may on occasionally pretend otherwise but his base is that knitting circle.

Censoring/banning/restricting/moderating myself, Calanadale & Scrapheap were all not his finest moments.

How to apologise to Scrap

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Re: OK
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2008, 08:13:17 AM »
Oh, I wouldn't limit this to site politics.
That's where I get interested, but you
see the same mechanism at work elsewhere.
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Re: OK
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2008, 08:36:56 AM »
Quote from: Snidely Whiplash on February 19, 2008, 08:13:17 AM
Oh, I wouldn't limit this to site politics.
That's where I get interested, but you
see the same mechanism at work elsewhere.
I never got why you did not actively engage in it while a student, coming to think of it. Its my main playground these days.
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Re: OK
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2008, 08:38:05 AM »
I will miss you and your independent voice, PI.

Lol, I haven't liked the way things have been changing for ages.
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Re: OK
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2008, 08:49:29 AM »
I am sorry to hear that you have to go again.   You will be missed.   It sucks that rumours about your personal life got brought into this, but this is the internets.
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:P   Internets are super serious.
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