Absolutely and I totally hear you - but the tides will turn eventually. We offer something too unique for people.. Safety. It's paramount here. Safety and correct moderation.
The site's corrupt and you know that.
It will happen, I totally believe that.
But my point is really, if people are that pissed off with it - why even be on there?
Again it will happen. The tides will turn.. you've always been made to feel so welcome here.
This is why I was utterly appalled at the recent issues (which I won't discuss) you faced. I could not believe it.. I actually was quite hurt by it to the point where I personally became very, very angry.
My immediate thought though, which I even mentioned to you - why stay there and face that.
However, I also know that 10 years' worth of friends is a lot to walk away from.
So bring em here
Again I think my main point is this;
If people are that fed up, that annoyed with the place, get bullied, face abuse or receive abusive messages... then why stay there?
I think it was
@Carpediem2008 who wrote a thread about taking shit for not being a certain size manhood and Mrs CD getting some flak for some thing or the other (please do excuse me if I am wrong there, trying to remember who wrote it is challenging on a Sunday morning
) and we as a community, responded to the thread in the way we should do and the way it's meant to.
Positive, kind, assuring.. not beating someone up for the sake of it.
The horror stories are just too similar, time and time again. It irks and frustrates me when I see genuine, lovely, polite people go through the mill there... when all I want to do is help and help them get out of those situations.
I still cannot fathom why so many people, who get so much abuse, still stay there like almost being a glutton for punishment.
If you have friends there, then bring them with you.
Nobody deserves to be bashed as much as they do on there. Nobody.
In all the years we were on there and since leaving and making this, I have never seen a change in the ethos there. It will always remain what it is.