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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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Oh my gosh what is going on here?!!!
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RE: Oh my gosh what is going on here?!!!

Hehehehe, you guys seem pretty OK, really! You have different opinions about school, but I can get that. The system doesn't work for you, so trying to alter it is valid. :3

The only thing about the controversial opinion thread is that a few of the opinions seem to be kind of malignant, but the perpetrator is just a bit ignorant about the topic and is formulating them based on incomplete information! So the little SJ-fairy-troll fluttered down to their thread with tidbits of wisdom and information and also a lot of fury but that's safely bottled up now.

I wasn't really planning to stay long, but now I'm honor bound to all the threads I barked in. I have forged the chain by my own hands, and the chain is set in steel and stone, locked to a ghost ship that floats and does not sail. I wait until the sea comes to take it back, and the dark waters swell to swallow the hulking tumorous mass. As the stinging waves pour over the impossible ship, I shall sit and wait for the end.

But I don't mind acquainting myself with some folk while I'm here! *curtsies to mister Levio*

(01-21-2012 10:42 PM)BaronVonStrangle Wrote:  homestuck more like homeSUCK
01-15-2012 10:45 PM
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RE: Oh my gosh what is going on here?!!! - cuttlefishCuller - 01-15-2012 10:45 PM

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