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"Whatever exists, whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. These anonymous creatures may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."
Actually, those are all pretty good reasons to quit, I suppose.
I keep having this problem of coming into a thread too late to have anything meaningful to say. So I simply decide to head back to my chapters, where I can ask people questions until their brains explode.
Yet, I always check back every 15 minutes to see what’s new.
I don’t see the community as becoming more hostile, but that topics are simply coming up that annoy specific people. (i.e. Forum Cops, ranks, rule changes, moderators, beta tests) It only seems natural that you will have at least one angry party in an argument, and the situation matters to so many that we have multiple angry parties. So people get red in the face, insult each other, perhaps even yell a bit, but the next day, or even the same day in another thread, those same people can have a civil conversation as if the argument had never occurred. It sort of depends on whether you look at specific situations and focus on them or if you look at everything at once.
I will agree that the forums have gotten a bit redundant. At least, in the sense that in a lot of forums there is a “topic of the week/month” that is discussed to death until another topic is chosen. But here in the Septagon I don’t think of too many of the topics as being redundant. Maybe a couple every one in a while, but it’s usually a very slow-paced forum, so problems get solved quickly. And I like slow-paces.
As for apathy, I’m not quite sure if I understand. Do the people hate coming here? I’m not quite sure how many people actually feel that way. I don’t. I’m sure Iceman doesn’t. There’s two people right there.
And perhaps, as a couple people have said, it’s just part of the sinusoidal nature of these forums. They go up, then they go down, then they go back up. It seems that this same thing occurred a while back, where people got bored and left.