My perspective is simple.
Once upon a time I was perfectly neutral, doing my thing (mostly the occasional commenting) on stuff. As I did years ago, and still do even though I now have been polarized.
I'd been fine with the current administration. Some people yelled at me (and other oldbies) for not having to retake the test, but in all reality, I had just taken the test a few months prior and succeeded—the next one wouldn't have been too difficult for me either. I've taken harder ones before.
Then I'm doing my thing and suddenly this big screen pops up saying the site has been hacked.
I first go "This is BS", then I go "Whoever is behind this asinine nonsense must PAY", and then I find out Tweaker has left. As for S2B concerns we are neutral, however I am at least somewhat his friend outside of S2B.
Okay. Whether or not he was really going nuts and quit over hacking, I won't spare my idea that Tweaker wasn't cut out for the position, because he couldn't take personal attacks. You must be made of steel, like me, or others, and take that and smash people who disturb the peace.
So then all these people who were banned appear and begin disrupting everything and insulting my other friends. People who I had previously argued with, people who had no care for research, people who loved to fill my screen with disgusting garbage.
And then I discovered the hackjob was so these people who disrupted the peaceful community could come in and prevent intelligent discussion?
People who then advocated overturning things Simon (and Pelord as well, and LocalH) had worked so hard to build?
To be honest, I don't know how I kept myself from making a massive, angry, horrible post. I am neutral in terms of whether S2B rises or falls, but I have a very strong conscience, and a very strong feeling for justice.
AND THIS WAS WRONG.
I checked, then; maybe I was the 1%? Maybe this was for the benefit of the community?
...No.
I saw fellow oldbies fighting these people, I saw fellow members scared off, I saw Tweaker's emotional state torn apart for political gain, I saw LocalH's trust abused for evil.
The day these people were allowed to trample things, was the day I stopped being neutral in these asinine politics. I don't agree with any one side 100%, but so far LocalH's has been at the forefront of trying to uphold the old principles, while the other side shouts 'SHADE IS AMAZING' and loots and burns everything.
And it is just great this place is back, because I don't know what I would have done had such injustice been allowed to prevail.
That is my perspective. I am not saying any of this is right or wrong, in fact I acknowledge it is probably biased. My experiences are unique, and so are everyone else's.
But doesn't it seem wrong to steal a website you didn't create for the purposes of changing it beyond its current form and destroying what was there previous?
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