My guess is that we're all waiting to see how things play out.. Kiwi did pour himself into the V so it would have been hard to leave. Aside from the X, Ron doesn't care too much about the alphabet boards. In his defense, Kiwi wouldn't have felt responsible to mod if people could follow the forum's rules but that's a little too much to ask of some people.
At this point it's pretty obvious he's trying to show who has PMS (Private Message Syndrome) here on GetBig. Not sure if the point is to show who we can or cannot trust or determine who he can or cannot trust. He has an odd moral code so it's a little difficult to guess what his point is. In some way he probably feels this is a public service. A lot of personal shit ends up getting discussed after people have been in these forums some time.
Yes, it's on-line but people do (on occasion) end up making something that would be considered a 'connection' or feeling people are actually friends behind the aliases.
One of the smartest guys I know always says message boards have a limited life expectancy. Dude has some theory about inertia, ownership and resistance to change. Basically... after a while either the inmates run the asylum or the board gets popular enough to make money and long time users can't handle the rules a commercial board needs to get/keep sponsors. I was drunk off my ass when he explained this so there may be a few gaps in my retelling of his theory.
Great post Jake!
I wanted to clarify something to all you meatheads
Just because I took it seriously when I was logged in at work doesn't mean I racked my brains hard everday to keep the V floating
. I just worked it out in my head in a few minutes and the rest was just implementation which took about 3 months (to go from the least used to the second most) to acheive.
I've never posted in forums before and when I started under a year ago, I didn't even know how to attach an image
I didn't do it to make friends cause I was lonely IRL (I most certainly wasn't
). But when I saw people open up to me and extend their trust, I didn't turn it down. I just made sure I gave everyone a chance - every V board regular has received a PM from me (sorry for the understatement
) and I was the first to make contact in 99% of the cases.
I just got more out of this board than you all did, that's all. It's because I'm of that nature where I get really involved with things.
One last thing - I was a testing stone too, who just bared the souls of a lot of people here with their recent actions - be they good or bad or both. I just like the element of human drama I guess
