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LadyNTrainer -> RE: Wishing you well (8/5/2011 12:06:43 PM)
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My, what a lot of, er, interesting interpretations.
Seriously, just take what I said at face value. There is no more to it. I have really enjoyed chatting with everyone here, I wish you well, and I wanted to say goodbye, because I don't have the time or energy to do it any more under the current conditions. I genuinely like the folks here and I really didn't want to leave without the equivalent of a virtual hug or at least a friendly wave for everybody.
Everything I have posted to this thread regarding the specific issue that is taking more of my time and energy than I can continue giving, which is not with other posters, was deleted. The same happened to another poster on this thread who emailed me and asked for an explanation. I suggested she not bother reposting my explanation to the thread because it would most likely be deleted. She did repost it and it was deleted. So that's why I'm currently pretty dubious on what is actually going to stay posted here. There was no drama in what she posted, just an explanation she passed on of why I feel personally uncomfortable continuing to spend a lot of time writing on erasable surfaces.
I respect that other people don't mind writing on a chalkboard, and that it can be a perfectly functional way to chat and communicate, but it's just not working for me. Not because I imagine my writing has any great value to others, but because it has value to me personally. I have to make a sensible cost-benefit decision about where I spend my time and energy. I do respect that the moderators may simply not have time to run a busy forum any other way than as a chalkboard, but as a result I don't have the time to write on it. Journaling or writing on my own site will work much better for me, because I tend to invest a lot of personal time and energy into my writing rather than dashing off replies. So message board writing in a tumultuous environment requiring frequent unannounced and unexplained thread-pulling is not compatible with how I write. This is not a judgment on anyone, just a rational cost-benefit decision with regards to my own needs.
Sadly I can not share my journal site here, which is why I wanted to say goodbye. I do not have personal issues with any poster here and none of you are the reason I need to make the decision to spend my writing time and energy on more permanent surfaces. Even the habitual f-bomb droppers and jokers are just plain sassy and funny; none of them have particularly offended or annoyed me. I really will miss you all.
The only posts that have not been deleted with regards to why I need to make this decision have been rather vague, because that's all that is getting left up. But vagueness seems to be subject to a lot of misinterpretation, so I've tried one more time to say goodbye in a way that is a little more understandable. That means this post is pretty borderline close to what has already been deleted, so it may or may not disappear. I don't know. In any case, for folks who do see this, I wish you all well. I will keep my profile up on the other side so folks can get hold of me outside the forums if they like.
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