Wozniak wrote:
Displaced Fan wrote:
Hey Stuu. I just went out for the first time in three months and am hammered. okay....prefaced enough. I loved........love this site. I check it ten....forty times a day. I was knee deep in replying until I got jumped every time I defended a democratic opinion in the political thread. I left for awhile and Phil convinced me to come back...now where is Phil? I should have another 2 or 3 thousand post attached to this account. We need to do away with the polarized political thread and advertise hockey. We all like the Sabres. Period. If politics hurts the hockey side of the site...then it must die.
i actually asked phil about his leaving a while back and he said that hes pretty much dropped out of almost all the forums he was involved in. didnt say why and i didnt ask.
A few people have brought this topic up to me elsewhere so I figured I'd respond:
I left because...
I wanted to spend less time on forums and more time blogging hockey, blogging LGBT issues, and writing fiction.
Twitter, texting and IMing are easier ways to communicate and share thoughts while mobile and offer greater control.
As a bisexual individual with a transgendered partner I felt unwelcome here among the few homophobic/homo-uninformed, and many transphobic and trans-uninformed posters.
A few individual users that aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
I don't really plan on returning, but for the sake of making this place better for those who do enjoy it, and leaving the possibility open for a place I might want to come back to in the future, I thought I'd share my thoughts.