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Thank you for your kind words, pan, both here and the say something nice thread. I don't take them lightly.
But I think the key thing that rubs me the wrong way about CA, and which aberkok mentions above, is that I don't believe many of the members over there are behaving honestly. It's a game to them. And a game that causes real hurt to people who don't deserve it. I don't see anything fun or constructive about that. I don't believe people need a place where they can go and verbally abuse people. In fact, I think indulging that impulse is unhealthy and highly deconstructive. As is evidenced by the mass dismay being voiced on this thread. I think it just goes to show that the filter of the internet does not prevent people from being hurt by what goes on there. I don't think the removed nature of the internet should free people from common decency. Most especially among its virtual communities where there is a certain amount of trust in each other that has been painstakingly nurtured. I hope that this doesn't signal the end of TFP, goddammit I just got here! And truthfully, I don't think it does, but I do think there will be lasting residual baggage to be dealt with because of what has occurred at CA. Some lessons are hard-learned.
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