First, let me say that Yes, I am an old-timer, with the good fortune to have experienced this board in its days of glory.

I have good reason to desire anonymity. My opinion (which, as disclaimed below, is not necessarily the opinion of this board or its moderators) is that the thing that calls itself "Keiva" and various other names is completely unstable and hellbent on wreaking destruction wherever possible, and probably has a very difficult time distinguishing between reality and whatever warped world it lives in. I do not wish to be the recipient of any of its sugar-coated venom balls in the form of emails and/or private messages, so I must post anonymously.

To ModestGoddess (an inaptronym if there ever was one), SilkMuse, Angel, eWhine, and any other accolytes (and recognizing that the possibility exists that you are all the same deranged person):

At the risk of sounding harsh, you have absolutely NO conception of what this board was once like, and you can post all of the inane drivel you want and call it intelligent conversation, but you can't hold a candle to what once existed here. Someone's resurrecting threads--have you even looked at them? If so, does honest reflection not tell you that most of the crap that's being brought to the table now is nothing like the collective wit and intellect that once made this the best place on the internet? AWAD has become a chat room, filled with vacuous voices steadily rising in volume, drowning out the voices that so many of us once appreciated. This had nothing to do with the thing that calls itself Keiva, except inasmuch as his self-important proliferation of posts annoyed the hell out of many of us.

The irony, then, is that the board as some of us once knew it was in a steady state of decline before "it" joined us, was blackballed, and like a serpent slithered its way back in through the back door. Its return, though, marked the end of most of our efforts to combat the decline. Keiva, in all of your incarnations, get this through your head: You are not wanted on the board by the overwhelming majority of the members. You, with your foul stench, have singlehandedly driven almost all of the people that mattered from this board. We do not want you to mention our names, we don't not want you to dredge up our old posts and reply to them, and we certainly do not want you to direct questions toward us, because We Do Not Like You. You are an exile, an outcast, and that is never, ever going to change. Got it?

Angel, I'm quite certain this will sound harsh, but in fairness: I cannot speak for all of the attendees of the upcoming social event, but I can tell you that a plurality of those attending feel that given your recent behaviour, combined with the fact that as a relative newcomer you've had precious little chance to form any real social bonds with most of those attending, it would probably be in your best interest to think long and hard on whether you'd be more comfortable declining. Perhaps another year.

I'm not saying, I'm just saying.


With sadness,

A fed-up Old-Timer.