sockpuppet

An apology to people:

I may not be prompt in interacting for a while. My use of this site has been via a pattern of behaviour which I've developed to cover the things I'm interested in seeing here. That's just been trashed by the new site layout, and it appears that at least one of those things will not be back.

I already left SG once because of unconsulted and AFAICT pointless changes. Didn't last. But I do, after all, have to cut my SG use anyway, since I'm about to be employed again. Maybe I'll get out of the habit.

The root of the problem is that the users have generated a community, but one with no influence on the management; who can thus do whatever the fuck they want, and the user gets to choose between putting up with it and saying "sorry guys" to hir friends. Community has become an enemy, a tool to subvert the user.

I suppose it is foolish to expect anything else. But it seems just as foolish to squander the user goodwill; apart from anything else, it makes the mods into enemies of the user. And it debases the site's real selling-point.