I don't care if you don't like how I used those words, but for clarity, I meant "for the third time in this thread, I'm asking someone 'why did you join?'" I'm not acting like anything.
I apologize. I misinterprated what you said.
So, where did you dredge up this "horrible, worthless personality" thing? Certainly not from me. You were correct in your original assumption that I'm indifferent toward you. I realize you spend a lot of time in the "count to 5" and similar threads, and that's fine; I neither like it or dislike it, and even at that, it doesn't make a damned bit of difference, because you do not need my approval to spend your time on this site as you see fit.
That was a quote from someone who feels strongly about me, I didn't intend to make it seem like you said that to me.
Some people (not you) do call me out as being worthless and a waste of space. I no longer participate in certain areas of this site because as soon as I do, certain members suddenly start screaming abuse.
You realize, though, that your knee-jerk reaction that anyone who disagrees with you must hate you, isn't healthy? There are a few on here who are so overly sensitive that a simple "you're wrong" in response to their posts immediately translates into both undying hatred and a formal declaration of war.
I don't think that anyone who disagrees with me hates me. I have exchanged polite PMs with members who didn't like me, and some of these reject me, some of them accept me.
I want to get along with everyone on here, as I can accept that some of them do have reasons for disliking me and I know it's not as black and white as saying "I don't agree with something X said, therefore, I dislike everything about X" Unfortunately, some people tend to disagree with one or two points about me, and refuse to see any other side that they may like.
Let me pose it to you this way. Take two situations: (1) you join a site, brand new, and in one week, you realize the membership is not what you thought, so you campaign relentlessly to get everyone who's been there for 4 years to change the site so that you like it better. (2) you've been a member of a particular site for about 4 years, and have many friends on that site; someone new joins, and within a week, is demanding that you stop posting the way you have for the past 4 years.
How do you feel in either of those situations?
I believe that anybody should be able to recognize certain injustices, new or not. I do take on board all criticism, even when it is drowned in unecessary curses.
May I point out the example of the thread filled with hatred describing me as horrible things. I then went and explained as politely as possible that I wasn't going to change. I could have easily taken huge amounts of offence, but I chose not to. I didn't start whining and telling everyone that they were nasty and mean, which would have probably been expected, due to the nature of it all.
Surely that shows how I don't declare war on those who dislike who I am?
I honestly have nobody on my ignore list at the moment, and I'm not prepared to totally ignore anyone for a single thing they have said about me, and I hope others can act in the same way about me.
I also hope some people can realise there is more substance to me than they may think. I'm not totally inane.