It’s interesting, to me, how people get so upset here. All involvement here is voluntary.
I think I’ve been here for a year now, and many jellies have come and gone. I usually estimate a jelly’s Fluther “age” by their lurve. Someone with 30,000 has been around for a while. I thought those jellies had been around long enough to go with the flow, and saw them as sort of elders/role models here. I slowly started seeing some disappear, and learned that some had been banned or left. I didn’t understand how they would suddenly leave, or become a nuisance then. I don’t get it now either.
I guess some jellies just snap. The angriest I’ve ever been here, was due to a Pitt Bull thread. I eventually said my piece and simply didn’t return to the thread.
I remember HC took constant beatings (yes, he deserved some of them,) and he had to be banned eventually (although I still don’t know why.)
The pond is very much a community. Arguments, and disagreements are inevitable. But there is much to be gained by staying here, I think.