You're quite prolific "over there", I'm surprised you managed a spanking.
Well... sort of. I got one quick, but I should have expected it.
I like being on both, there are plenty of intelligent conversations on each... It's just frustrating sometimes over there having to treat the more
challenged newbs with kid gloves.
("... for the third time, NO... that is
not safe.")
Glad you're here.
Gonna tell us who you pissed off, and how?
Well first off, last week, was classwife, when I posted a "troll alert" in a thread someone started claiming that vaping was rotting their teeth. The galling thing was that a lot of others were making the same observation, but I didn't see their posts getting deleted or edited. That was when she gave me the warning, that if I posted anything further about trolls or idiots or calling people stupid, I would meet the ban hammer. So I'm like, ok, whatever. Went on about my business, and made sure NOT to make any mention of what seemed to be anti-vape trolls, and even tried to ignore those who were clearly just stupid. Not even considering a post I had made
10 days before that, which retired1 took to mean a reference to the verboten substance, though it REALLY wasn't -- I said herbS, plural, not singular, since I really thought the poster meant that, and the post was really in reference to all those who were telling a previous non-smoker that he shouldn't be vaping nicotine or he was going to become a "nicotine slave for life" or other such idiocy -- it was mainly the sheer effrontery of adults trying to tell other adults what to do or not do that really bugged me.
When I sent an email to ECF via their contact link about the total unfairness of that, he responded that I "wasn't fooling anyone," which I found insulting in the EXTREME, since a) it's been several decades since I was dishonest enough to even want to fool anyone about anything, and b) neither his nor anyone else's opinions at ECF is important enough to me to even bother trying to "fool" anyone, even if I were so inclined to do that, and c) in fact I hadn't even MEANT that other stuff, but totally legal and innocuous herbS, as that was what I thought the poster meant (some people seem to be trying to vape them for health benefits, though I'm dubious about their value for that).
During that 3 day break, I gave a lot of thought to how I wanted to handle it, and I decided that my life contains enough BS and stupid people without dealing with humorless idiots with sticks up their rectums who seemed to have it "in" for me in general. I recalled that I had visted here some time back, and thought it seemed much more friendly in general, so I thought I'd have a look in again to see if any others I knew from there had ventured this way -- seems that quite a few have done so.
I really was "prolific" over there, just over 21,000 posts in just over 2 yrs, but enough is enough, and I'm certainly stable enough now as a vaping non-smoker, I don't need them to hold my hand, or clutter my life with their control-freakness. But I've gotten accustomed to hanging out in a vaping forum, so the lack of it was a real lack... so, here I am, and glad to be here.
Andria