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As I said above, I have been regarding various things as symptoms of a problem that has been growing for over a year, indicative of tensions on the forum. The incidents on Veruca's thread among them.
In the first instance you determined for yourself to no longer read posts on that thread from certain posters. As a decision for yourself you are entitled to read or not read anything you want, well and fine. You then elected to post on that thread about that decision, naming those whose posts you would no longer be reading. In terms of the focus of that thread that was entirely off topic and served no useful purpose.
I do not know that you had any motive in posting that; the generous view is that you wanted to inform those posters why you would not be responding to their posts (which could be done by other means), the ungenerous view is that you wished to affect how others reading that thread would view those posters and their posts, the middle view is that you just didn't think about it and there was no motive. In any event, some dozens of posts then resulted which could be deleted from that thread without losing anything in terms of discussions and observations about the editing of the show. I hated to see that thread go off topic in that manner. But it was symptomatic of systemic tension, in my view. We've all been getting a bit distressed.
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