Listen up you primitive freaks ...

"...I may not be telling anyone anything they don't already know and/or have deduced on their own, but.... no one, not even Robert the Ubermod, is capable of banning anyone..."

"...Habitable Zone's software cannot block IP addresses. A visit to a friend's house or a public library (or posting from work) is a quick and effective workaround for IP blocking, anyway."

You get that you backward psychos...Robert's powerless to keep order here!

"I'll be honest -- I've been tempted to summarily delete anything traceable to this Smyth character (who I remember from the MSNBC days), even in boards which are not 'my' jurisdiction. I want to do the same to anything posted by RL."

I've got my boomstick and no matter where you're hiding, if you keep bothering me I'm going to lock some folks up and throw them into the pit!

'The WACKO LOONS are PROTECTED here - This is UNFAIR!'

I also want to stop Lindy from baiting him, because you know she's doing it on purpose, then runs crying to Mommy-rator, and I'm sick of that, too...."

'Save me from that meany RL!"

"Maybe I'm sick of the Zone. Or maybe I'm merely sick of the vague notion that I'm partly responsible for its upkeep, because these days I seriously don't give a shit."

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I see you all as you are - a bunch of crazed, predictable psychos!

"Frank, you might be especially interested in this: I stopped reading CE, where I'm allegedly co-moderator. I look at the subject lines. Period. I can pretty much predict which meme is being parroted by a glance at who posted it... and by the time I've arrived home from a day's work, I've already heard it all from sources closer to the originals, courtesy of NPR."

"...and I've stopped pretending that anyone gives a flying fuck what I think, anyway -- which is why I've all but stopped posting."

"Why do I stay at all? I've got friends here..."

" and people who I don't know well enough to consider friends, but whose personal revelations in Community and OT I find admirable. I often wish that the same group of people were available to me somewhere else, without the people I can't stand (and that list is a long one)... but they're not."

So most of you are freaks and you better get your act together...or I'm bailing for good...

THE END

Sorry Fox, if I misinterpreted the sentiment. You were a little bit vague on some of it.

;-)