[Cronislee]

Originally Posted by Funkduder

I'm confused. If you truly don't want the thread to close, then why close it? I really don't see why, now, there is a reason to mark the thread as closed.

Because I've realised there will not be any new members.
I'm not going to have the thread locked down, or eraced, or any of that. This is literally the only place I even remotely feel comfortable on this site. People who were active members who did not want to stay here anymore chose to opt out, such as yourself and a few others, and others just left, such as Ultima. We havent had any new applicants, and as such the groups floundered.

I watched for 2 weeks to see what would happen if I didn't post anything, thinking that maybe the reason things seemed to be going down hill was me, and if that was the case I'd limit my interations and act more as a moderator of the group. But in those two weeks of watching, the group moved two pages, with most posts being by non members. As a result, I realised this is just a general hang out now, not a Group. So I decided to close the group and not accept any new members, because in reality there arent any new members, or people interested in becoming members. You saw my venting, but that was a result of weeks of pent up frustration at the way things had been going.

What I wanted was to have this group return to what it had been, be the #1 group on the site, but I didn't recieve one suggestion, on here or by PM on how to save it, or even to save it. I wanted people to do like I had and try to help the group as much as I've been trying, because I hit the wall, and I couldnt get over it. Instead, the third pillar of the group (Poggio) left, which I hadn't anticipated.

Granted, I've been more or less depressed the last 5 months, but as I've said before I keep my problems to myself, but I will admit that is a factor into how I persieve things here.