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Jackie Decker wrote:

Hello All and Produce Manager,

I just got an email via a reader of this post, and it leaves me sort of disturbed.

How many here feel I was the cause of the shutdown of the forum?

To all of those that do, I sincerely apologize.

I do hope my poll on 'the state of the spoof forum' wasn't the entire reason for the black out on the part of the admins. I originally posted it out of curiosity, as I'd never seen the forum in the state it was, and wondered if any or all felt it was what everyone wanted, or if....it wasn't?

To me, it seemed as if there were certain individual "muscles" that we're exercising, (or maybe exorcising), their rights to the exclusion of other's general spirit of participation. Maybe I was wrong in my analysis, which I was fully willing to accept...via the results of my poll.

I do feel I understand the general nature of forums and the wide range of expressions inspired by their (usually) free form structures of intent. I, myself, have participated in some super-flaming, yet creative forums, and it was understood that things could, and usually would get hot.

I had been participating in the[more pleasant] Spoof forums from the Lowton days, and had seen many changes, with new writers coming and going...like the weather, and about the time I posted the poll regarding the forum, I thought something very different was begining to occur, with several good writers no longer posting for reasons that seemed to possibly be due to trolling and pointed attacks.

Like I said before, I could've be completely off base here....., and to whomever I've possibly been a disservice, I humbly apologize.
          
           Sincerely, Jackie Decker

Btw, this is a great forum you've got here.

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