Fullofkittens wrote:

[Umm, I think you're too blinded by the bitterness of your breakup with Chet to realize that you're not arguing anything against what I posted. What I was saying was that it was interesting, from a 'net sociology viewpoint, that Chet created a forum and the community organism that popped up was cohesive enough that it didn't even die when he killed it. I could really give a shit what his reasons were for shutting it down, if it had been me I wouldn't have waited as long as he did. Was he a bad op? I don't know, don't care, and it doesn't really matter in the context of this discussion, which is about the ascendance of group indentities that grow to live outside the scope of what they were initially intended to be. I didn't say "Good job for creating us, Grampa Chet!" I just said it was interesting.

FoK