The Long Road to the Top if You Wanna Rock n Roll

Right, because "lame" is not a put-down.  It's an expression of admiration.

abstractdream wrote: I understand that if I am to be where I am most comfortable I am to be ostracized by the rest of the community, no matter how much effort I put into walking on eggshells.

Thanks for the civil reply, Bartozzi. I may do that sometime, but my intention was not to debate, it was to give some insight to who may be a better fit in TLR.

I did find out that some folks are not interested in debate, regardless of how they present themselves to the community. I suppose I can take that as a lesson learned.

Please take the arguments apart and use whatever instrument you like. An actual debate as opposed to the usual barbs, jabs and ad hominem attacks would be welcome.

I posted a description of the player I think TLR is a good fit for. I defined a difference observed in the GC community. The tone of the replies look to me to be overly defensive. Perhaps the words written were far too open to interpretation, that is my fault but there seems to be a distinct "gotcha" thing going on here. I admit the word "hug" has a meaning in Illyriad that it does not anywhere else. I acknowledged that and I appologized for my missing the boat. I was directing my post to, among others the players who find themselves disliking the GC activity due to the snuggling.

It is not a surprise to anyone that we exist but I know now that I am on the wrong side. I understand that if I am to be where I am most comfortable I am to be ostracized by the rest of the community, no matter how much effort I put into walking on eggshells. I was under the impression that there were actual intellects roaming around the halls of the forum but I now see that they are robots too.
Lessons learned:
I cannot have friendly, sometimes heated debates with fellow Illyrians and I cannot expect those Illyrians to treat me with respect once they realize I will not be swayed. I cannot point out potential issues I see without having these same Illyrians assume the worst.

Rules for players:
1. Like it when you are hugged and hug them back.
2. Have a lot of patience for those who are clearly less than yourself...
3. ...until they say something you can interpret to be a direct attack on you personally.
4. Suggest that armies are for grown-ups, but don't say grown-ups.
5. Illiriad is a social network and wargaming will not be tolerated by the pacifists.

Well I won't speak for bonfyr, that's his fight and he can handle it on his own. However, when did we start getting on the assumption that TLR dislikes Hugcr?  Two of my former members reside there and although I'm not quite sure what a small sniggle is, since they are still there I trust they are happy.