As of this point in time, I have left LPSG with no plan to return.
If ever any reason comes up for me to return, I might. But I have no idea what that reason could be.
The shift from an unmoderated forum that kept itself in check to a forum where moderators make draconian pronouncements about 'special knowledge' and 'knowing better than anyone else' has created a two-tier system in which only the few may decide what is best for the others, and with NO EXPLANATION as to why the latter may be the case, and all discussion of these matters deemed UNACCEPTABLE.
If LPSG was an experiment in true democracy, then it has failed.
In the past, I have received PMs from picture-loving folk there saying that "the site wouldn't be the same without Alex8". Even at the time, I smiled only briefly, and then hit 'delete'. The site will barely even notice that I am gone. And, after recent events transformed it from a place of fun to a place of intransigent Big Brother-ism, I really have to say that this sense of apathy is mutual.
If ever any reason comes up for me to return, I might. But I have no idea what that reason could be.
The shift from an unmoderated forum that kept itself in check to a forum where moderators make draconian pronouncements about 'special knowledge' and 'knowing better than anyone else' has created a two-tier system in which only the few may decide what is best for the others, and with NO EXPLANATION as to why the latter may be the case, and all discussion of these matters deemed UNACCEPTABLE.
If LPSG was an experiment in true democracy, then it has failed.
In the past, I have received PMs from picture-loving folk there saying that "the site wouldn't be the same without Alex8". Even at the time, I smiled only briefly, and then hit 'delete'. The site will barely even notice that I am gone. And, after recent events transformed it from a place of fun to a place of intransigent Big Brother-ism, I really have to say that this sense of apathy is mutual.