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A couple of points at the outset of this thread: Do not fight, bicker, or squabble in this thread. Please. This is going to be a thread where we remind ourselves why we come to Barbelith, because I'm sure it's not because we like to debate over Poster X's remark to Poster Y.
I haven't really posted in a long time. About four months since I've really made any solid contribution to the board. It's been because of my two full time jobs and a lack of energy to actually engage with any topics more meatier than what book I'm currently ignoring. But I read sometimes while I eat my cereal in the morning and... I'm falling out of love with Barbelith.
There's been a couple things happening in the past four months that has just turned me off. The constant squabbling. The constant harrassment from racist, ignorant idiots. And stemming from that, the bickering over what to do with these assholes.
Pages and pages and pages and pages of who said what and who said why and what was implied and what was disregarded. Tenured posters saying ignorant and meanspirited things. Newbie posters saying ignorant and petty things. And the neverending debating of what to do when said situation arises.
Barbelith seems like a chore right now, and I haven't got the energy to bother with the hard work of fighting. I've purposefully stayed away from meaty threads in HeadShop and Switchboard because I haven't got any game right now. I've stayed to Conversation and to the culture stuff in Books, Film, and Music. But when the arguments muss up every thread and we're alluding to shit said earlier, I find I have to read up in Policy. Who said what?
I think I'm not the only one. Nina says something similar but different here. Barbelith is exhausting people, I presume. It must be. Especially the souls who fight day in day out in Policy. So, Haus, Flyboy, toksik, paranoidwriter, Dead Megatron, Xoc, Alex's (Relative), Ganesh, Shrug, Seth, Stoatie, all of you, come on in and relax.
In order to keep my love affair with Barbelith going, and not let it die like a withering rose, I'm taking a long break from the Policy forum.
The reason being two-fold: Policy threads depress me and make me want to go to Defamer and think about something else. And secondly, I'm not really missing anything. We've said it all before.
The other thing I plan to do to stay in the loving arms of the 'lith is this thread. So please, post something, a memory, an anecdote or another great post. We're all friends. Let's remind ourselves of that.
I don't want to leave Barbelith. I love all of you. Just help me realize why I came here in the first place, because right now, Barbelith is not a fun space. |
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