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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Robin you forgot the part where you tried to destroy the community and openly confessed to such selfish aims. You're lucky you weren't banned forever. I resisted this, though it was suggested by many.
Your behavior has placed you in your own short-leashed category.
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I never tried to 'destroy the community.' What I confessed to was an ill-conceived attempt to illustrate why a sense of personal investment in community is so important for its existence. I think it was Creekster who wrote the hypothosis for my unfortunate experiment when he asked why I should care so much about the acceptance or rejection of a bunch of people on a semi-anonymous sports board. In other words, if this is all just a diversion from work and the drudgery of day-to-day life, then who cares what the people here think of you?
My experiment was to illustrate what happens when people treat CG as a diversion rather than a community. So I gave up courtesy and manners, the glue of community, and treated people and their feelings and ideas as diversion, rather than showing patience and respect, which is what people do when they are invested in community. I suppose I chose the negative approach because I was pissed, but it was never my belief that any single person could 'destroy community.' There are still plenty of people here who treat this place as diversion rather than community, but community persists.
Since then I have had a serious change of heart. I have decided to illustrate why a sense of personal investment in community is so important for its existence by taking a positive approach to participation here. If it was my behavior that won me my own special short leash, I hope it is my behavior that will win back trust and the same status that everyone else gets to enjoy.
But I'm not pinning any hope on being able to avoid Mike's heavy hand for 180 days... ever. Because I've never REALLY had normal status here, and Mike has beef with me, and he did from day uno, and I don't expect that to change. But I appreciate friendship and community with many of the interesting people here, and that is what really matters, crypt or not.
Cheers,
R.