AG Refugees

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Flint

ahhh I must "pay my dues" before I can be "accepted" into the "clique"

I don't know whether you were responding to me in particular, but that's not at all what I was saying. There are plenty of people whose first post fit right in. Others need some time to adjust to how this site's culture works. If someone can't adjust, they don't get the type of conversation they were hoping for, and get a bunch of talk about them instead of with them. If this lasts too long, most people get sick of it and leave on their own. A very few start to get resentful, and become abusive and nasty, and have to be removed. This story happens a couple of times a year, which explains why a number of regulars are so quick to get annoyed.

Not a sermon, just a thought.