I'm sorry you're going. I think you've contributed a lot to the discussions there, and that the board will be poorer without you.

I wasn't originally going to respond to all of this, because I didn't know what to say. I also didn't want to present some opinion as though I were bestowing it from on high, as my view of things is not The Single View of Truth, and I understand people (you, but also others) might disagree. I think that's as things should be.

However, in response to someone else's take on it this morning I finally sat down and composed this. I probably should have shared it with you first, but I wasn't originally going to say anything at all about it (other than that I'm sorry you're going). As soon as I posted there, I knew I had to post it where I knew you'd see it, too.

I also know you're going to disagree with some, if not most or all of it, but I hope it's not so fundamental a disagreement that I'll "disgust" you, as you put it previously.

To put the beginning in context, someone was talking about Elrostar's post, and how it was "despicable, and trolling of the worst kind." This is my reply to that, and to the whole sequence of events.

Bah! Turns out my comment is too long, so I will put the other post in a separate reply. Sorry for the journal-clutter!