Since I'm also relatively new I haven't known this forum without HS and he's made me laugh more than the rest of the forum combined. Sure he's silly and goes a bit far maybe but it feels like this place can use the lightheartedness and the discussions it creates. This thread and the one he made about Devin Townsend joining DT are goofy but also they both have 3-4 pages of discussion that I think most people enjoyed.
I can't agree more. That thread was honestly the first time I ever really felt like I had
fun here (hence, the birth of the "Fun Committee" - RIP to that too, I guess 😪). This place gets oh so serious much of the time and collectively takes itself too damn seriously (
there, I
said it). We're a goddam
band forum, for crying out loud, not MENSA. Who cares if we sometimes have a little fun and blow off steam once in a while? Isn't real life too effing serious these days? Isn't the real world too dark and stressful a place of late?
I also have to say that I don't like the general tone of many of the posts in this thread that stink of ostracism, the cool kids picking on the nerdy one who's not "one of us" just because he likes a good laugh and yet is maybe a little weird and random in the way he goes about it. I am no mod, but is that
really worth a ban?! Just because someone is a little different and may not think exactly like all of you? It almost makes me want to stop participating, honestly, if it weren't for the fact that there is also good and worthy conversation here. But I don't want to call myself a member of any group who treats people with intolerance for just being a bit different from the generally accepted norm.
I
do hope he has learned where to draw the line and comes back. I didn't know him well or for long but he's one that I was starting to consider as a friend on this forum. If he's reading this and does return, I hope he DM's me to let me know he's back and is alright.