Post by username on Nov 23, 2008 3:02:37 GMT -5
While I'm guessing the few people who still browse here wouldn't be all that offended by a middle finger (mind you, not directed at any person), I'll respect your judgment. At this point I'm accepting that this forum is not, at least anymore, meant for me. Whether this is due to a gradual change in the forum or in myself I am not entirely sure of. Both are easily possible, but it is of course irrelevant.
This is not some outrage over the fact that I can't post a picture of myself giving the camera the finger. I just find it odd that this is a forum for only those ages 13 and up, yet implements an elementary school stance on behavior. It's not that I can't freely use vulgarity here, that's just a symptom of the larger problem; that this is a children's forum in spirit.
I do not mean to insult all of you who post here by calling the forum childish, many of you are mature and intelligent. But some of you aren't. I feel that the forum is run in a manner that caters to that latter group.
To be fair, this has not been a major problem as of late, probably because of how the forum has died down considerably. That's one reason I shouldn't be so critical, the other being that so much of the internet is like this anyway.
Ultimately, although I respect and like all of the current staff as people, I do not agree with the direction the forum was taken in. I'm not going to delete my account, or even make plans to leave entirely, but I have been posting less and less frequently, and will presumably continue to do so. So you can take this as a goodbye post of sorts.
