You know, I've been giving this forum and its changes a lot of thought recently.  I was thinking about it yesterday while driving down my street when I spied a police cruiser turn in right behind me.  I must admit, I immediately sat up in my chair, tried to remember if my tags were current, slowed a bit, and found my hands automatically reach for the ole ten and two.  Before I saw the officer, I was bee-bopping along, listening to music and draining a can of cola, carefree...and maybe just a bit careless.  Were we having more fun in forum, more carefree and bee boppy 6 months ago?  Yes. But some folks weren't paying near enough attention to warnings from mods, mods weren't giving habitual abusers a quick enough of a heave ho the hell outta here and things correspondingly went to hell.  Our once vibrant museum of smart, snarky delight has now had its walls covered in a yuck color of beigey restraint.  There has been a chilling effect.  Then again, maybe some folks needed to chill.  Folks used to have a bit more restraint round here, a natural balance could be felt.  That left somehow and those with little self control and a whole bucketful of bad intentions almost shut this place down for the more community-minded among us.  The whole damn ruckus makes me kind of sad.  Maybe we'll see a decrease in MOD cruisers in our neighborhoods when folks ease up a little with taking this whole fiction thing a bit too seriously and maybe then and only then, we'll be able to be-bop down the road once again.

Honestly, and with all due respect to mods and members alike,

O