abaya

Maybe I'm blind, but I'm not aware of any "forced" social pressure (or moderator pressure) to not rock the boat around here.

Sure, I'm aware of my own inhibitions to discuss certain topics or confront certain people, both online and in real life. But those are my own preferences and choices, and they are not dictated by force from others around or above me. It's just the way I do business in general.

I guess I don't understand all these references to repressing "what you really felt but could never say" and blaming your own cowardice on the idea that someone else is "keeping you down." I mean, are you really afraid of those big scary mods, or even what anonymous "internet entities" will think of you? I don't think so. What are people so afraid of around here, other than themselves?

Sometimes I think this has nothing to do with the board and everything to do with people being human. Which isn't going to change anytime soon.

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran