MrsSippie I too was furious about that note from MNHQ btw, and I hope you are feeling calmer now. I am. Don't let it ruin your equilibrium or your evening.
I think it is pathetic because it shows that people on the other thread have been complaining about us. (unless someone here has been complaining about them, which I doubt, but I guess I could be wrong..... )
Why? We don't do what they do. We haven't attempted to change their thread or tell them what to do. I got really annoyed actually and it was a good opportunity to examine my feelings - all sorts of personal triggers for me here which it is good for me to be conscious of.
In a nutshell, when I was younger, I was often bullied and controlled by people (fuck it, I mean my sister, and bullies at school, when I was always the youngest in the class) who insisted on doing things a certain way, made sure I didn't feel welcome, and then got very upset and angry and annoyed when I went off and did things on my own instead. Sometimes I even found I actually had friends after breaking away, who had followed me, and that made the original bullies absolutely fucking furious and super-vile to me, because they are the sort who need to feel unchallenged, in charge, to have followers.
The form the vileness often took was to take steps to get me in some form of trouble with some sort of authority. And often, after being very controlling and aggressive, to manipulate the situation so that they can be seen as victims.
Much of the above is simply not relevant here. But what is relevant, is that knowing how they do things is none of my business, and making no attempt to change it, I simply left and did my own thing and this is somehow perceived as aggression! And is moaned about! To the Authorities.
I mean how insecure and controlling do you have to be, to moan that someone else has started a thread on a public forum that is related to, but a bit different from, a thread you are a regular on. Pathetic.
Of course I am only assuming someone must have complained as what else would have made mnhq comment. And it is probably a tiny minority and most of the posters on that thread just wouldn't bother and wish anyone here, and anywhere else, all the best. As I do to them. I don't think any the worse of any of them, because I don't know who did it, and who to think the worse of. If I did know I would think them pathetic.