TBP Survivor Game: Vote RE On or Off the Island!

We had a pretty serious Altercation here resulting from my Population Triage Thread. Our Admin got thoroughly pissed off at me, and then additionally LLPOH and myself Napalmed the Living Shit out of each other, as we often do. I took a couple of days of “vacation” to ponder on whether I want to continue writing for TBP.

Stuck meanwhile made the case for why I should continue posting here, since I provide an alternate opinion for discussion, even though he often does not agree with my perspective. Other regular posters like LLPOH and Smokey rooted for Admin to get so pissed off at me he would BAN me from posting on the board.

For my part, I pushed the envelope of Free Speech, attempting to get Admin to COMMIT to whether he would Ban me or Not if I did not follow his injunctions on what I could write. Free Speech believer that he is (and I counted on this in pushing the envelope), Admin would NOT make it explicit that he would Ban me if I continued on the path I took to needle him. However, it remains an implicit THREAT.

I do not accept Censorship in any form, and Admin blustering at me “DO YOU UNDERSTAND?” was Implicit Censorship, the same kind of thing Jason pitched at me, which was that I had to Self-Censor if I expected him to put up a Platform for me to write on. Admin was threatening to BAN ME, even Stuck picked up on that, I am sure most of you did as well, I certainly did. The Mods on Peak Oil also implored me to self-censor. Karl on Ticker Forum made it clear if I wrote certain things he would Ban me. Needless to say, I have been Banned REGULARLY from posting on many forums because I do not accept any form of Censorship. If I get THREATENED with it, I just push the envelope further. LOL. I write what I write, regardless. In this case, I took a vacation to think on this before I pushed it so far as to getting Banned.

However, we still do have a quandary here to resolve. As we last left this altercation, Admin’s last post was something like “Go ahead and QUIT! Who CARES!” So I decided to take a Vacation at his request. The stock in trade of what passes for debate on the board has become quite tiresome and grown quite stale, so I was up for the Vacation anyhow. In any post that has more than about 20 replies, its mostly the same folks pitching the same old napalm. I like to write about the topics of the ongoing Collapse with my spin, then I like to debate them, but nobody can debate realistically when you have Thermonuclear Napalm spit all over the thread every time you post. So should I really bother posting here when this is the result I get all the time?

So herein lies the foundation of this post. I really would like to know “who cares?” if I continue posting on TBP or not. Should I stay or should I go?

I’m going to start this off by jumping outside my role here and trying to look at this dispassionately. I’ll present some positive and negative aspects of my continuing to post on this board. Anybody else can also present their opinions on why I should stay or go. Then you can all VOTE RE Off the TBP Island; or vote for me to Remain a Contributor. I promise to ABIDE by the Tribe Decision. If I am SHUNNED here, I will DISSAPEAR and DIE, in the Cyberspace sense on TBP anyhow of writing articles. Maybe I will Poach with an occasional Comment, but no more 10,000 word Articles.

What are my Positive Contributions to the Group? As I see it, they are the following:

1-I present a very different spin to consider on the problems we all recognize
2-I write many Original Articles you won’t find anywhere else on the net
3-I help keep the board active in discussion by being a magnet for napalm (though I would prefer more substantive discussion)

My Negative Contributions:

1-I can be positively NASTY when I get pissed off.
2-My posts are criticized as too long for people to read and respond to.
3-My presence on the board makes Napalm Artists like Smokey & LLPOH even more annoying than they already are, since they cannot help but troll my threads and napalm them persistently.

Anyhow, I will put it up for a Vote here as to whether I stay or go. If you want me to stay and keep posting Articles, give me a thumbs up. If I should quit doing this, thumbs down. If I get more Thumbs Down then Thumbs Up, I will leave the pages of TBP and head for the Great Beyond as a Contributor, and just do Ghost Poaching. One vote to a Member, no Anonymous voting. You must post up under your own screen ID and declare “Thumbs Up” or “Thumbs Down” in WRITING. No using the automated buttons.

Voting closes when this post falls off the list of recent posts. In the event I get more Thumbs Down here, I will See You on the Other Side. Best of Luck when the Big Show comes to Theatre Near You. In the event I get a Thumbs Up, I’ll keep churning out the prose for you all to chew on as you see fit. I got a BIG ONE Ready and Waiting. I have had a couple of days to work on it, and you all KNOW what that means is coming down the pipe. LOL. Your choice, TBPers.

RE