Good Bye Dixon?

[Cheyenne]

In fact, and I've been thinking about this since taking my "break" a while ago, I've grown increasingly bored and annoyed with the BB lately. This latest ugly, "take no prisoners" cycle seems to have settled in too much. In the past there has always been more support for the more mature positions...but that's really gone. Like I said, most people here want the train wrecks. And with Deb and MP running the engines like Thelma and Louise without a Cause, it seems like the tide has shifted to the shitty end of town for an extended time.

PC is right, my buttons have been pushed. MP, Deb, I find both of you very ugly, and ungenerous. Neither of you will ever stop a troll or elevate the board beyond a hatefull schoolyard mentality.

As I say, I've been thinking about leaving anyway, and now I've decided that I will go. I don't need it anymore. It's the healthy thing to do.

Bye all.

This was buried in the back of a troll thread that many people may not read. It deserves its own thread, even if DCL didn't post it that way.

 

[Cheyenne]

As I say, I've been thinking about leaving anyway, and now I've decided that I will go. I don't need it anymore. It's the healthy thing to do.

Bye all.

DCL, you're one of the few people on the board who I will believe when they say they will go. That it isn't just a ploy on your part for sympathy and us begging to have you stay. That said, let me be one of the first to do exactly that and ask you to stay. I enjoy your wit and 90% of the time enjoy reading your posts. You make up for the ugly and hurtful posts of some of the others here.

On the other hand, sometimes walking away from something can also be healthy. Some things in life are optional. If they aren't fun anymore, why do them? I still hope it is just a short break you're taking and that you'll be back when some of the recent newbies have died off and are gone from the board. I've been here long enough to see them come and go. The cycle doesn't end, sometimes you just need to wait it out.

 

[Weevil]

Hey I like the guy. I think he's one of the best and brightest posters here, but If he wants to go bitch and sulk then fine. Nuts to the Temptations, I am too proud to beg. Have fun on your break DCL. I'll miss you I suppose. Well not personally cause we never really talked but I'll miss reading your stuff. Whatever.

 

[Renegade]

Indeed. Although I can't really blame him for wanting to go with the way the board has been lately. It's very surprising that he would let what's been going on lately get to him. But I suppose everyone has a limit to how much they are willing to put up with. I remember hearing in one thread that he wasn't feeling that good in RL? That trouble mixed with the trouble around Lit is probably what made him walk away. Hopefully he'll do what a few have done in the past by taking a break away and returning when he feels better. Either way though, it's his choice.

 

[*Lazer*]

HEY DCL Yah YOU JERSEY BOY!!!!!

I would hate to see a nice Jersey boy go california on us. It really is just another cycle of the wheel dude. Take a break and come on back when you're ready.

I read through the "troll" thread and was not surprized at DCL's decision. I have often teased him about the "god" image. (Lets face it the fawning by thongs of adolescent acting women gets old). It is also based on a true affection and respect for him. I do not think that anyone chased him off the board.

I do support what he said about ignoring the troll posts. I lost some respect in that strand. I also decided the brevity is a virtue that I have come to admire. Go out and laugh and enjoy your family Dixon.
















Pssst don't tell anyone but I really do like you a lot

[Edited by *Lazer* on 04-27-2001 at 07:43 AM]

 

[Cheyenne]

I'm pretty sure DCL is the oldest here though.

It's hard to peg who's been here the longest, because a few of us were here before there was a bulletin board -- in other words, before there was any way of dating your first arrival.

My joining date isn't techincally accurate, because that just relfects the day I decided to go through the registration process. In reality I was actually "here" at Literotica earlier, soon after it was created, when there were about 20 or 30 stories, and I first decided to try my hand at writing one of my own. To my astonishment "they" put it on line, and I've been hooked on Lit ever since.

Deborah was here around then. I can't think of anyone else who was here then that's still here now, though I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody. (Deb, that puts us in a special club I suppose. You want to stop this silly feud?)

Back then all communciation was third hand. Someone would read my story, send an e-mail to Laurel, and she in turn would forward it to me at my personal e-mail address. Everything changed when she got Lit Mail and the Bulletin Board.

"Then". LOL I sound like I'm talking about ancient history.

Sometimes history is worth remembering.

 

[Flagg]

Oh well, see ya then.

HAHA! The position of longest serving literotican is mine! Muhahaha! Soon I vill tek over the vorld!

(I'll miss him really. As for Siren, she's just going to go mental!)

 

[Guest]

hey hey

Yaa, I don't like Deb also. She is very narrow minded and stupid. Also, she is a he. Don't get suckered by that act.

Don't over rate the forum though, it never has been an open intelligent discussion area.

I say we vote Sparky off the board instead! God, that constant dribble is sorry sight.

DCL once before I suggested do more writing and you will free better and so will we. Your stories are very good.

 

[Guest]

And it's not like he's dead or anything. He has e-mail. You people really are sheep.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Mistress]

I like him too...even if he does hate me!

 

[DevilMayCare]

I'm a newbie, but I'll sorely miss DCL. I appreciate his erudition and directness. His comments are often a welcome antidote to the edgy harshness of posts by many regulars. The fact he's been here a long time gives him standing to take on others with strong opinions. I like what he has to say and wish him well.

 

[OUTSIDER]

He'll be back...sooner or later.....in the mean time good luck old chap.

 

[Jade]

I don't know about the Thelma and Louise thing but I too feel like the dynamics of the board have changed.

Honestly, I don't enjoy coming here as much as I used to.

There used to be so much insight, and the direction of the emotion went a different way. Such is no longer the case.

As far as DCL goes... he won't ever know this b/c apparently he left, but just so no hard feelings lie for him I wanted to share what he meant to me.

When I first came to lit and finally became a member, I threw myself in. I wrote, I read, and I lurked around here on the bb.
Pretty typical of most I think.

I instantly noticed that, like everywhere else in life... there were those that got a little bit more "attention" than everyone else.
I was fine with that.

But then it became this slight immature thing regarding "receiving" attentions from these "special" people.
I started a thread about it.

DCL was there then.

Then, I revealed a few personal details about myself and then I felt vulnerable b/c I felt like I had revealed more than others. I wondered about myself... did I look desperate? Did I seem like I was "reaching out" over the internet like some nutjob? Was I talking about my problems too much... my personal life? Some people were extremely stand-offish about such matters.

AND not to mention the flirting... have you ever noticed that DCL rarely flirted... so that when he did... it made an impact... I mean... when DCL flirted with you, you had "status."

I then wondered, what makes him and others like him SO appealing? The mystery is part of it. But moreso... the intelligence.
Someone with a real "thought process" going on. Always a nice thing to have around.

Anyway, as I was saying, I then created another thread explaining my feelings about the vulnerability/personal life factor... blah blah.

Dcl then iced the cake by not only responding (thereby giving me "recognition") but by saying something really nice. I don't even remember what it was. But his words were so soothing, that I was nearly brought to tears.
I don't cry easily.

It's very rare.
Now he'll never know.

But that's alright b/c if he read this post, he'd probably think I was psycho anyway. I think that is his fear with all of us anyway. What I hate about that is that he takes away MY worries about HIM being psycho. And honestly, I will never know how he did that.

Anyway, I have been feeling extremely disconnected from the board since returning.

People don't respond to anything I throw myself into.

I have said so much on some threads, to no avail.
The only things responded to are sexual remarks. I tried eliminating those and then I got nothing.

That was why I too, like DCL, am leaving.
And, as he was classy enough to do it in style (by not creating his own thread for it)... I too will follow his lead, but in my own special "Jade" way and announce it here where... once again, no one will reply unless I offer a fuck.

*waves*
Thank you for enriching my life. I do miss what once was.

 

[Mistress]

Jade....can I snuggle you?

 

[Siren]

YOU are sooo right.

 

[Ksss]

I agree, I too will miss DCL, but understand where he is coming from. The BB has changed alot in the last few months, but such is "progress"....

 

[Dillinger]

Jade:

http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=30713&pagenumber=3

Same goes for you as I said in my post to Dix and Deb.

I wish you luck - each of us does what we need to do... and I do hope that your going isn't forever...

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

Okay, I am going to come out of my shell and I might offend some. I apologize in advance.

What's with the "eulogies" on this thread? Does anyone take this seriously enough to grieve when someone decides (quite childishly in my opinion) to stop posting? I like DCL too, though I have only "spoken" to him once or twice, but his little "walk out" is kind of silly, isn't it? If he is saying that everyone should ignore trolls, then shouldn't he follow his own advice and ignore them too? To let trolls or lack of intelligent conversation run you off the BB is weak, and then to post your last words on the board in a melodrama is asking for attention, not saying you are tired of it. I hear that Deb and Madame Pandora are shit stirrers, but I have been around almost four months and though I have made my opinions about anything known, I have not recieved one harsh word from either of them. Or ANYBODY for that matter.

If you feel there is a lack of intelligent conversation, then be a leader and START SOME. Ignore the trolls. Don't post on shit stirring threads and you will have a much more pleasant experience here. It is common sense.

DCL, I like you, but I hope you do not choose to make a weak and pussy move by dropping off the board because someone made you cry. And I know you are looking. C'mon, no one has that much self restraint ;-)

No hard feelings to anyone, okay.
Can't we all just get along?!

Much luv and tough luv,
S

 

[Samuari]

You know I agree with Sateema. I will miss DCL's eridite wisdom, as well as his since of fun that kept us all from getting to serious. But Dog gone it! He really needs to listen to his own advice, and ignore the bastards. If he allows to let them to run him out, then they win and we all lose. On the other hand if they do then maybe DCL wasn't the Honcho we thought that he was anyway.

 

[Nicole]

DCL, I'll miss you.

I'll write.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

I was just getting validated too...

Ahhhh screw it