It was my Attn thread, wasn't it.
While I'm not going to argue that the WW was attracting members to the site or that the mods are in on some conspiracy to have control of the site...
I do truly believe this forum is a lot worse off without it. Furthermore, people complain that the forums devolved into slap-fighting, but this is just not true at all. If anything, there was always fighting. It's just that in the days without the WW, it was veiled in subtle insults and passive-aggressiveness. And you know what? That's fine. But with the WW, we at least had a choice.
People could've ignored the WW. There were options to make it completely invisible. Honestly, there's no nice way to say this so I'm just gonna say it. The people who wanted the WW gone tended to be people who take things way too seriously. A lot of them thought it was so bad but they're too damn precious to realize that that stuff was super light.
And I'm not even comparing it to /b/. /b/ is a shithole. But too many people think the WW was somehow just as bad.
I know that the mods here are just doing what they think is right. And if they think this is truly the way to go, then who am I to suggest anything. But if my word means anything at all, trust me when I say that this was a bad idea.
Perhaps a good compromise would be to lighten up some of the rules, but if the mods were really agreeable to that, I don't think they would have removed WW in the first place, so that's probably not gonna happen.
So now, we come to our current situation. Honestly, at the rate I'm going, it looks like I'm probably gonna get banned from here soon, but if I do, I'm probably not gonna be coming back. And that's not a threat or anything. It's just what is. If this is really the train we're gonna be riding then I don't think I wanna board it. You guys will need to go on without me. Maybe I'll see you all around some other time.