Yes, it is indeed April 1st

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I know you don't believe this now but the idea that ANYONE would EVER think that someone (or a group of people) were meaning to turn poster against poster is horrific and crazy. It's as if everything we've done here was ignored. As if all of the obvious care and love we put into this place was completely forgotten in the face of one obviously odd instance.

While I think mountain :: molehill of the situation, I can see how things could be misconstrued. Remember that while you (and I, and many of the people on here) know the intricacies of many posters' personalities, whims, moods, tendencies... there are some here who don't. There are some who've never met each other. Some who don't get to spend significant time with the others. Small community though this may be, it is not completely private, it includes more than one clique, and it is more disparate in poster familiarity than you might remember.

I know that care and love was put into LoT. Remember, though, that care and love was put into every other community in which we participated-- just not by you and yours. And dischord harmed those, despite it.

I've seen a lot of people in a lot of different online communities be less than kind to each other. I've seen people act with malicious intent. I've seen things like that which was suggested on Friday actually happen. Things like Prudence suggested, too. I've seen the law enter into it, folks. It ain't pretty.

My point here is as such: this is a lovely little community, but it is not immune to crisis. Of course none of these people harmed anyone. And if you know them, you know that. But what if you didn't know them? Wouldn't you think that this little corner of cyberspace was just as susceptible to manufactured drama as any other? It's not unfathomable in those terms.