( sry for the spelling runnin glow on sleep)
as im reading this thread i can see what is happening with both sides
in one group we have the XG faithfull, which includes me in that group. These posters are current members who are satisfied with the community trying to defend it, even if its in a degrading way to the other group. ( sometimes) but not everything that has been said by this group is true. i believe ylander posted something like this( im paraphrasing at best) " we dont have any drama but what is caused by ex members." sorry to disagree, but drama is going to happen anywhere large groups of people meet. it is physically impossible for 30000 people to agree all the time, there will be differences and fights will break out.
it is in the way these arguments are handles which dazzles me. XG has one of the quickest response times i have ever seen, and the leaders are as open as i have ever enountered. if one member has a problem with another member, a leader is brought in to mediate between the two, if that doesnt work, the 2 members are simply seperated from each other, and the options dont end there. when someone decides to leave the community due to a problem they have it is most likely that they do not know how to solve it, but damn Xg still does it the best ive ever seen, believe me.
so yeah were trying to defend the work we have put into this site, this community, and this family, so please dont ruin our good time because you have some sort of grudge against a small group of us
the other group seems to be comprised of mostly ex- members who had a bad experience and decided they werent having that again. well if you let one bad thing ruin something fun that is your own fault, but do not seek to discourage others from their happiness.
some of the things this group have said have really no point, i remember reading a post in response to a joke hylander made. " well what if that joke was real?"
its not real... so your point is menaingless.
also not everything they pot is automatically not true either.
most rumors( oh god here we go), begin with some sort of truth to them, in this case perhaps someone cracked a joke in a party about a council member braking the honor code. well this joke was missinterpreted and spread about by certain people who need to feel acclomplished by tearing others down. these rumors became more and more embellished and pretty soon you have poeople believing the council is all a bunch of nazi teabagging trash talking draunkards who dance on one foot while playing halo.( just an example of how rumors can get out of hand quick)
so yeah maybe someone once heard that a council member said somehting wrong, who amoung can say that they have lived a perfect life???????? i wont wait for that ill be trying to make myself a better person, which seems to be the direct opposite of the goal of half of the posts in this forum
bottom line:
if you fight as dirty a the other guy, you arent any better