The thing is... Casa got exactly what she wanted by posting this thread. Everyone came to either support her or put their two cents in regarding her behavior. It's like she needed someone to say "bad girl" or "good girl" and give her a cookie.
All of the moderators here are human. We have emotions and we carry torches for topics that are very much close to our hearts- just like any member here. Sometimes our emotions lead our fingers on the keyboard and we don't always think twice before we say or do something, but we're HUMAN- we make mistakes and learn from them just as we hope others do from theirs. As a moderator who has once let a member get the better of me, I speak from experience when I say it is hard to rise above and moderate a forum when you have people constantly kicking you and not expecting you to speak your mind because you're a moderator.
For a very long time now (behind the scenes, obviously) Casa has been poking and prodding and disrespecting moderators and members left and right. There is only so much of this belittling, rudeness and condescending talk that any person can take (should they even have to take any of it at all?). Casa drew her own line and she crossed it. She is leaving because she can not handle what she dishes out on the forum, she is leaving of her own accord- so be it, the forum will be a little lighter until the next person comes along and
attempts to ruin it for others.
What some members, lurkers, etc. don't seem to realize is that we moderators do not get paid for this. We do this on our own time, because we love the forum and the members. Every single time you (generic you) click that report post button or send a PM to a moderator, WE deal with it because we want to make this a fun place for everyone. Can you imagine receiving countless PM's and reported posts from one person over and over again- all because they get upset because someone doesn't agree with them or they don't feel that someone else is entitled to their opinion because it's not the same as theirs? My goodness.
And while it is possible for new members to go down to view forum leaders and see who the mods are, most don't and even then do not know that they can do that. Just the other night in chat I told someone about that feature and most of the people in chat said, "really, i didn't know that."
The mods here are not the only ones to represent Chazhound- the voices are and every member has a voice.
In the 70s, there was a book called "Games People Play". One of the games was called "Let's You and Him Fight". The perp would "innocently" start a ruckus designed to get two or more people he despised to fight with one another. It took a very clever and surrepticious person to pull it off, especially given that the targets were initially amicable toward one another. What the person would do is "innocently" tell each of the people something awful the other one did or said, until finally the targets were fighting and the actual initiator enjoyed sitting back and watching it all unfold.
If this thread isn't a deliberate and prime example of "Let's You and Him Fight" I don't know what is.
That right there ^ that is a voice of Chazhound... amen, TM. :hail: