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>>Oh by the way, I hate to start another fight, >>but shut up smith. > >It's okay — I'm not looking for one. If Hellfire04 had >posted the above message about a week ago, I would >have wholeheartedly echoed your "hear, hear" >sentiments, Bitchy Queen of Fanfiction. This thing is, >people have, for the most part, stopped bickering; >people have stopped pointing fingers of blame at each >other; people have stopped engaging in a >bitchfest/acting like raving fangirls; people are >finding some badfic and discussing it. To me, >Hellfire04's post ran the risk of raking up old muck. >I used to moderate a message board, and on several >occasions flame wars were restarted by >well-intentioned people continuing to stick their oars >in several days after the flame war had ended. By >"putting nails into coffins" I just meant "let >sleeping dogs lie". If Hellfire04 asks questions like >"What happened to the good old days?" and "What >happened to the spirit of GAFF?" then he/she runs the >risk of somebody replying with something along the >lines of "Person X took over the board and ruined it", >possibly cueing another flamewar. Fortunately, this >didn't happen, and, with hindsight, I shouldn't have >made the above post, which rather makes me look a >complete tit. > >Again, I agree completely with what Hellfire04 said, >it's just that I think what he said was posted seven >or so days too late. Whilst this message board has >hardly returned to Hellfire04's "good old days", it is >at least facing in the right direction--the long, long >flame-y threads have disappeared off the first page of >this message board, where I hope they will stay; >people are posting and discussing badfic. It doesn’t >matter if Hellfire04’s questions like "What happened >to the good old days?" were rhetorical, it could only >take one person to say "Person X and his/her cronies >ruined the old spirit of GAFF" and you could have a >return to circular bickering. Let sleeping dogs lie — >that's what I was trying to say. I regret any offence >I might have caused. > >Anyway, I’m returning to lurkerdom now, and probably >won't bother this board again.
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