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Sigh. The most annoying part of minor forum drama is when someone uses rare, inconsequential examples as an excuse to create even more drama. Often the meta-drama is worse than whatever the problem was. You'll see this, on occasion, on Reddit: there'll be a hundred people loudly complaining and farming upvotes about some form of thought crime that happened in the comments, and then you'll scroll down and see that what kicked things off was maybe 2 or 3 comments that were downvoted to oblivion.
I think that is precisely what you're doing now. It's been weeks or months since we've had the kind of flameout you describe, for the reasons you describe. No, Dase doesn't count. He didn't quit because he thinks we're right wing retards, he just happened to be particularly disgruntled and claimed that there were too many idiots here for him to handle. While I clearly don't agree with him, I can see where he's coming from.
There have been, to the best of my knowledge, no other high profile cases of people throwing a hissy fit before their departure in ages. Turok, maybe, but that's been a while. But I doubt anyone misses him too much. Darwin? God knows it's been long enough that we've probably evolved a few new species of finch.
While we have a rule about leaving the rest of the internet at the door, we also, implicitly but perhaps even more seriously, have norms that say that your current antics aren't acceptable either. If Amadan's not going to put on his mod hat, I'm not either. We have our differences, but most of the time I do recognize he has a point and that he does an excellent job. But I will say, mostly as a user but also as a mod, that this crap belongs on rdrama. Please take it there instead.
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