23rd May 2005, 10:46 PM
To be honest, Weltall has compromised. He's shown a great deal of patience in this as well. Weltall is, well I'll just say it, a SAINT in this matter.
Look, I can only say this. OB1, you really need to take some time away from this board. Don't leave forever. Maybe a week or perhaps two in order to think about this sort of thing and realize how silly it all was. You don't need to bring it up again or anything, but please just learn not to take things so seriously. No one is trying to target you here. You DID start this argument, that's a fact. We are only trying to explain Weltall's position, and you really are being unreasonable about this. Now, you obviously are angry about something. Maybe there's some hidden anger at us for past transgressions, or maybe it's something in the real world, I don't know. However, that's for you to figure out. The important thing is this. You have to learn to respect other's opinions. The majority wants these rules. We applaud the establishment of this first galactic empire (as you probably see it).
In the past, I have done what I could to keep you here. I don't want you to leave, I would just like a somewhat calmer, less willing to argue, version of you who is just as much a contributor as you are now. However, I won't try to fight it this time. You can leave if you must, though losing any of our active members is a loss, but I will say that whatever choice you make will be entirely on you. I won't have you claiming you only stay because we begged you to stay, so I won't beg. Do as you see fit.
Look, I can only say this. OB1, you really need to take some time away from this board. Don't leave forever. Maybe a week or perhaps two in order to think about this sort of thing and realize how silly it all was. You don't need to bring it up again or anything, but please just learn not to take things so seriously. No one is trying to target you here. You DID start this argument, that's a fact. We are only trying to explain Weltall's position, and you really are being unreasonable about this. Now, you obviously are angry about something. Maybe there's some hidden anger at us for past transgressions, or maybe it's something in the real world, I don't know. However, that's for you to figure out. The important thing is this. You have to learn to respect other's opinions. The majority wants these rules. We applaud the establishment of this first galactic empire (as you probably see it).
In the past, I have done what I could to keep you here. I don't want you to leave, I would just like a somewhat calmer, less willing to argue, version of you who is just as much a contributor as you are now. However, I won't try to fight it this time. You can leave if you must, though losing any of our active members is a loss, but I will say that whatever choice you make will be entirely on you. I won't have you claiming you only stay because we begged you to stay, so I won't beg. Do as you see fit.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)