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As some of you are aware by now, Susie has left the forum.
I don't suppose that many have you have guessed but Susie and I are very good friends off the forum. No nothing like that. We've never met or even talked on the phone - just friends via PM.
We are both writing novels, so we have that in common.
As you know, we have been pushing for a 'hobbies' forum to cover creative writing, poetry and stuff like that.
In the mean time she started a thread in the 'Word Games' sub forum about book revues and 'all things nice'. Sadly, some of the 'members' here thought it a good idea to turn it into a thread of 'childish toilet ditties' as if they were in some way being clever or funny. They were neither. They were just spiteful people who felt belittled that they couldn't join in - so set out on a campaign of spoiling. It was the one thread in the whole forum where egos and venom were left at the door.
Having seen her thread trashed, she has decided to leave.
That's a sad loss to this forum and all those within it that were genuine.
Just as two bad families can wreck a whole estate, so two bad forumites can wreck a forum.
We actually had an email from Admin saying that a hobbies forum would be created - but she has mailed him back to cancel it - it would only be trashed in like manner.
So there you have it. A valued and respected member lost.
Someone who tried to make the forum a better place, and a forum that will be poorer for here leaving.
I don't suppose that many have you have guessed but Susie and I are very good friends off the forum. No nothing like that. We've never met or even talked on the phone - just friends via PM.
We are both writing novels, so we have that in common.
As you know, we have been pushing for a 'hobbies' forum to cover creative writing, poetry and stuff like that.
In the mean time she started a thread in the 'Word Games' sub forum about book revues and 'all things nice'. Sadly, some of the 'members' here thought it a good idea to turn it into a thread of 'childish toilet ditties' as if they were in some way being clever or funny. They were neither. They were just spiteful people who felt belittled that they couldn't join in - so set out on a campaign of spoiling. It was the one thread in the whole forum where egos and venom were left at the door.
Having seen her thread trashed, she has decided to leave.
That's a sad loss to this forum and all those within it that were genuine.
Just as two bad families can wreck a whole estate, so two bad forumites can wreck a forum.
We actually had an email from Admin saying that a hobbies forum would be created - but she has mailed him back to cancel it - it would only be trashed in like manner.
So there you have it. A valued and respected member lost.
Someone who tried to make the forum a better place, and a forum that will be poorer for here leaving.