EDG said:
Personally I would just prefer that you just stopped trolling. I don't have a problem with disagreeing with people, but when they decide it's OK to be flippant, baiting, dismissive, sarcastic, facetious, personal and all of those other pointless, stupid things that don't add to constructive conversation (and that you do with me), that's when I get pissed off. It's really simple - talk about the topic, not the person writing it. Just stop and think about what you write before you post it, and ask if there's anything in there directed at the poster themselves - if there is, then you need to edit that crap out. If you're not capable of doing that with me though, then by all means, leave the board and then maybe we can all get some peace here. The fact that you've constistently done this to me for over a year though doesn't fill me with hope that you'll change.
I'm not trolling, and you know it, so stop being as overdramatic as when you accused me of stalking you in this one newsgroup, in a thread I started. Perhaps I'm baiting you, at worst, but basically, I can't stand you and vice versa other, and its showing. . but if you want to put all of it on me, fine. A brief vacation will allow me to decide if I'm just not getting how the posting community here works, and your approach is in all ways reasonable and cool.
This isn't going to end until one of us takes a break, and it's clear who it needs to be.
Either way, I'm really sick of this crap. I do not want to be arguing with you or anyone every time I post here. But at the same time I should not have to put up with people targeting me with baiting - and that's as much an issue with the moderation (or rather the lack of it) here.
Then stick to one of your resolutions to quit, ignore people who bait you, or stop posting. Or don't. You made it plain that you have no interest in trying to reach any kind of resolution except on your terms. Possibly that's the right path to take if you really believe that I am just another one of a long line of monsters attacking you and who you need to protect the forum from. Possibly you're in place where you cant back down an inch without losing....I dunno, face ? Self respect ? Whatever. Possibly I've pushed you there, and for that, I'm sorry.
Still, I offered, you accepted, so there it is. Deal with the other problems on your own. Who knows, maybe with me gone, all the other harassment will stop. In which case, then I deserve to have to leave.
Fact is, I'm not worried about your constant admin complaints (yes, it is as you suggested. Exactly one request in the past year came back to me to treat you with kid gloves. Becuase they were too busy to deal with the complaints ) or that you make any of your personal changes to the traveller rules, background or system that will have any effect on my gaming experience or that the community will rally to your viewpoint. The only conclusion they seem to have reached, and rightly so, is that we are both acting like fools....the massive view upshoot when we start going at it divided by the actual posts suggest that we are basically the equivilent of fighting clowns in a ring. And, that I'd rather not continue, regardless of who's fault you have to make it.
But obviously ignoring you will not work since you feel you have the need to constantly continue our screwed up relationship.
So, I'm not going to quit the group forever, nor gaming , nor screech out in a miasma of denouncements and flouncing, nor quit traveller, or delete all my threads, or whatever standard drama queen tactics are . I am taking a vacation from posting as EDG so honestly believes that he has nothing to do with the problem, or responsibility for stopping it; and there isn't room here for two people with that idea. I can chat with most of y'all on other groups, and I'll check in in a bit.
EDG, feel free to ignore me when I do.
Till then, to all else , see you in a while. And sorry for getting so publicly stuck to a tarbaby...and on your dime, too.
