Kinda addressing a few other posts combined with yours, Va!
My staying away really had nothing to do with Jay and Lounge being attacked...........they're big boys and could handle themselves. I thought it was absolutely beyond decency invading people's businesses and personal lives or going full on racist and said so but neither one asked me ever to come and defend them, for the record.
Going after Dale's family was a bigger reason.
People taunting Angel when she was going through that horrible time with family issues! That level of meanness and then the thread where people were posting actual real life suicide pictures taunting someone.........those three things combined really did it.
No drugs, alcohol, blackouts, personal grudges or jilted love can justify the levels that a bunch of people sunk to here.........they were always those type of people inside and the booze or anger just brought it out. Not really the type of people you want to hang with in your off time.
Those people are more to blame for people leaving here then the mods!
As far as Sesh or any mod is concerned..........we made our peace and things are back to the way they always were with us.
The irony is hilarious, though. Sesh replaces the original lead singer of this site and sites jump up all over the place bemoaning the loss of the original lead singer and how the band was so much better with Sarge at the helm
No matter what you do Sesh or have done, that will always be the case. Shitty deal but..........
Yeah, what united us was rallying around Dave and hating Spammy!
The site got a second life and was cooking when Dave got back and all the perks we were getting from DDE. A new album and a comeback tour kept this place going for awhile but now that they're pretty much content to be an oldies act and releasing live albums from the last fucking tour instead of the glory years, took a ton of steam out of the engine. I agree 100%!
FB is what killed the site, though.
30 or so of the longtime members here and I still stay in touch through FB. It's convenient, it's private and it just seems easier without having to worry about privacy issues or personal attacks on family or businesses.
You can choose who you want to deal with as opposed to an open forum.
Add in all the good and legendary trolls are gone and that was half the fun........logging in after work to see what bizarre and creepy things Katy or whoever was posting. There were some strange ass fuckers here and the flame wars were funnier. It used to be you won the argument through humor and not rancor for the most part but things did get nasty here then so it's not a new phenomenon, just seemed different and more vile the last round.
I still post here and will continue to when the mood strikes! Just not a highlight of my day like it used to be.
I wouldn't say I was ran off, just a combination of things kinda put me off..........real life is partly to blame, too.
Once I stayed away it just got easier to continue to stay away.
Things change and people move on.........That's Life