Posted by baseball55 on July 5, 2016, at 19:20:52
In reply to Re: I agree with SLS, posted by Ruuudy on July 5, 2016, at 18:25:11
I wrote this before but I'll write it again. Since Bob went AWOL, there has actually been a lot less angst on babble than there used to be. Yes, Lou is still around, but Bob never did a thing about Lou when he was moderating, which was one cause of a lot of angst and upset. I can recall a number of "trolls" who seemed to delight in causing trouble, getting blocked, then reappearing under another name. Babble is smaller now, no doubt, but much less fractious. Lou still causes a lot of angst, but really, nothing compared to 4-5 years ago, when the admin board was just post after post about Lou and blocks and people leaving or threatening to leave.
And Phillipa - you've been predicting the demise of babble for as long as I've been using it (10 years, I think). The other boards are dormant, and that's too bad. I used to like the psychology board a lot. But the fact is that there really is no other place as safe as babble, as intimate as babble and as full of good information as babble. Membership ebbs and flows, but it's amazing how we all hang on.
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