It is indeed sad news that a few can cause the loss for so many. I understand, though, and thank Scar and Dante for all their hard work.

P.S. What will Cloudy do until 1am?

P.P.S. What will Cloudy do until 2am?

P.P.P.S. What will Cloudy do until 3am?

I am very sorry to read about this. I liked posting here (as you can tell by my post count), and enjoyed most of the people here. I will miss this forum.

Then again, maybe I'll start going to bed a little earlier!

-- RWM

Maybe Cloudy will get some sleep & start making some sense now.

I would be sad to see this board go down for a number of reasons. Foremost of them is that I love having a non-Facebooky space to discuss the games and questions. As importantly, it's great to have a non-Facebooky space to discuss mini-competitions, gatherings and travel plans.

Less importantly, it's been nice to have a place for political discussions where the participants are not completely anonymous.

Please note I'm not begrudging anybody who wants to discuss any topic, just saying our purpose here is BT.

BO

You're going to be shocked when I turn this into "Politics Only Ratings" here in a few hours.

I'm hard pressed to think of a topic in which people could maintain
cordial attitudes 100% of the time.
If I started a thread on cute little puppies, it's a stone cold lock
that someone would bluster on about their preference for cute little
kittens and intimate that I'm a bozo for thinking otherwise.
People are consistent pains in the ass that way, god love 'em.
However, nothing on this site (or the ol' NTN site) ever made me think that people shouldn't be allowed to voice their opinion, regardless of the blunt methodology used by the poster. Some people simply do not know how to express themselves in a socially acceptable manner. But that does not make their conclusions invalid or their opinions unworthy of exploration. It must be incredibly frustrating to have so much to say and not know how to get one's point across.
But, ultimately, when push comes to shove I vote in favor of Dante. He's the hobbit that has to put up with the consequences of the break down in acceptable social structure on here, so he gets the only vote that counts.
I appreciate the crap out of what you do for this site, Dante.
Do what works best for you.
And I think I have the answer for all of the refereeing issues: eliminate your inbox...

I'm hard pressed to think of a topic in which people could maintain
cordial attitudes 100% of the time.:

cloudy 140
akbar71 42
rhino 27
dante 25
anon 23
iceman 19
mr ale 18
hammer 15
cards 13
frankc 12
poman 12
spotes 7
tolle 4
bgtuna 3
zog741 3
liljol 2
jim 2
mitchwolf 1
gogetm 1
lewser 1
scar 1

I did want to take this opportunity to apologize for being such a loudmouth on Republican
Hopefuls, as demonstrated by the above post count.

Would I never shut up?

Actually, I think Republic Hopefuls was one of the more interesting topics here. The reason I didn't post much in it was because it was political, and therefore apt to get out of hand.

I like freedom of speech, even with its occasional consequences. I don't think the political threads should have been shut down, but they should have been clearly marked as political, perhaps in a subcategory under "Free for All". Perhaps the subcategory could have been "Politics - Post at your Own Risk!"

-- RWM

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There may be some possibility of what you mention, but for right now, it's unlikely.