Published on 12, July, 2020
because of the arguments, why not hibernate?
I have done this before.
You can change your name to 'hibernating'.
It's good psychologically because it stops me from posting and indicates to others that you are having a break.
Also, you can choose to still PM (which I do) which isolates you less.
Roy has chosen to do this yesterday.
I've been told by one person that someone they knew was thinking of joining but didn't because of the disagreements, others post far less, others join and then stay a short while.
I was sad to read Billy87 s post today.
To the new people here: it's not always like this and only certain subjects are incendiary so if you can manage to avoid reading them, that would help.
I am guilty of having joined into arguments because I also feel passionately about certain subjects and I expect I will occasionally still make my point.
However, I think restraint here is the key and personal insults should never be acceptable.
I dearly hope that this thread doesn't go the same way as my 'arguments' thread and become one almightly row ...
As people are once again thinking of leaving, I'm just bumping this.
This is all very disappointing. I came here because I hoped to find people who were more accepting, tolerant and kind and almost without exception I have found that to be the case here. So I’m very disappointed that anyone would feel so unhappy that they would want to leave.
I will simply not participate in any threads that don’t align with my interests or beliefs. There are plenty of other threads which do
People thinking of leaving because someone disagrees with them. How mature