WTF?

yeah. doesn't make much sense.

the thing that strikes me is that ...once you pull an exit like this...then what? how do you come back after you cool off? It seems rather permanent. I mean......you'd want to save face somehow......but, how? claim that it wasn't an exit at all, but a vacation?

the other thing is that...if he is all pissed off at the cellar as a whole.....pissed enough to bugger off like this.....why wouldn't he ever mention it......or try to combat it?

I can see refraining from posting for a time.....taking a leave....whatever. I can see (although i always disagree with) making a big production out of leaving because of some affront you've suffered.....

but to do something as irrevocable as deleting that large a chunk of communally created thread, and ducking out with no mention of what precipitated it....?

WTF is right, wolf.

Seems pretty clear to me that it had something to do with his spat with rkzenrage over the pictures/videos in one of the many religion threads. Wish I could find which one it was but I can't. Realistically he was complaining about them because they were annoying (i.e. the thread bombs aren't funny and there are only so many anti-church YouTube videos you can watch before it gets boring) but he couched it at one point in terms of wasting bandwidth. I'm totally conjecturing here, but someone may have pointed out that his Dodads thread had more pictures than anywhere else on the site so bandwidth accusations were slightly bogus. I think he probably didn't leave because he was angry, I think he just deleted all his pictures because he was angry, and is now just taking some time to cool off. I really hope that whatever's going on--on the Cellar or in real life--he feels better and comes back soon.

He's sent me a cryptic email which sort of explains it. It's more along the lines of the intensely personal employer/family-related sort of thing, and less along the lines of he got mad at us and took his football etc. I recommend not speculating, and I think he will return.

Ah. I stay out of that area, so i missed that. I wondered if he was trying to free up some server space, but figured he'd SAY somehing before deleting his stuff, since it's usually so cool...

On that note, I will eagerly await his return, with or without an explaination.

Gah, that sucks... I hope he's not in it too deep.

Yeah. Sounds like a sticky situ.

Maybe we've been a tad hasty in calling for his removal as moderator. If he wants to continue, I vote we maintain the status quo.

I like Bruce. I hope he's OK, and I hope he comes back soon. I welcome his return. He's Bruce, for crying out loud.

But he did abuse his moderator powers, and until I hear a compelling reason from him for his actions, I'm not happy about it. I didn't vote for him so he could delete one of the largest threads in the Cellar. I'm sure he had his reasons, but there had to be a better way.

I feel the same. But out of consideration for the value of his presence here its only fair and reasonable to give him an opportunity to explain things. It is remotely possible, for instance, that it wasn't him.

Let's apply some tincture of time to this situation.

It's one of my favorite medications.

I hear that these days it comes in a variety without that awful medication smell.

you don't think we should fly off the handle and jump to conclusions?

Makes sense, I didnt think Bruce would be the bat and ball type.....hope its all sorted soon :)

It was the worst of times.... period.
No ones, but me, knows what happened. UT is the only other person and he only has a rough idea. Unfortunately for you,(fortunately for me) I'll never be able to tell you what happened. Maybe UT will fill you in when I die.

rkzenrage? Oh pul-eeese.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. I didn't realize that deleting my posts would kill the dodads thread, entirely. Evidently deleting the first post will do that.

If you're pissed off and don't want me to be a moderator, I'm cool with that.

Sycamore asked if I would come to his wedding in St Louis to which I replied, "No way". I guess he'd rather I jerked him around for 6 months then tell him I wouldn't make it. Go figure.

Nah, its cool. Glad your back. Hope all is better.