> Sorry this is a mess, but I think my underlying
>idea's here somewhere. I understand what Dave
>and the rest of the annoyed people are
>feeling... that their sacred meeting place has
>been swiped by younger people with different
>ideas and opinions. It doesn't seem fair, but
>there's no way around it on a popular site with
>a public chat.
> Okay, I'm done.

Unfortunately, you've missed the point entirely.

The point of my post was not that I'm hurt or offended that my "sacred meeting place" has been taken away. I'm not saying that that is entirely untrue, but that's not even CLOSE to the point of my post.

My point was that I personally feel annoyed and disrupted almost every single day in RinkChat, and I basically just shake it off and go on with my life. But one night, Sam and I do something disruptive and annoying, and suddenly five or six people are offended to the point where some of them actually want to leave forever and some are so upset that they spend hours writing message forum posts explaining *why*? How wrong is THAT?

-- Dave