katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And a special message for Rick, as an EDF exile - > good to have you here, and please don't go and get > yourself banned. I may not exactly agree with all > your views, and I do sometime find the left / > right ding-dong tedious, but I do think it's > better than everyone on a Forum having the same > view, and congratulating themselves on how much > more enlightened / realistic they are than those > outside their magic circle. > > Thought this from Sydenham forum's Tim L was > pretty good. I read something the other day that > said the main reason people left online > communities was not because of conflicts, > provocative posters, off-topic discussions, spam > or technology trouble. It was because they* were > no longer interesting. > > Oh, and whilst I found myself agreeing with Eagle > on that particular thread, those with differing > views put them across in such a way that meant I > wanted to read what they had to say and see things > from their perspective. Perhaps rethink my own > stance. > > *not them, their online community. (Yet on EDF > they may leave, but often return..) Well, thanks Katie, you say the nicest things. We take our - small l - liberalism seriously over here in Sydenham.