In a response to a PM as to why I'm apparently so hostile:
Don't confuse hostility with irrational anger. I'm as calm as you.
I come from communities that have been around a lot longer than this
one, where threads like yours are regularly created about once a month.
They help nobody. It just separates the veterans from the rookies,
where the old farts feel like they're better than the new guys just
because their post count is higher.
Sure, you made some fan club or something on the old forum. Sure,
you were really popular there. Sure, you had a circle of friends that
chatted about everything, and man, it was fun. I've been a part of those
myself - it's great to go to a place where everyone knows your name.
But face the facts. The current crowd has forgotten you. They don't
even care. Bringing up the past and demanding that people give you the
respect you think you deserve because of it helps nobody. It makes you
look self-centered and aloof, and believe it or not, the new people will
think LESS of you. Even though you don't mean to alienate them, they're
being alienated. To most of us, this is our first impression of you.
And right now, you look firmly stuck in the past, refusing to take part
of the new trends and fads, content to sit in a no-newbies-allowed
clubhouse thread with your old buddies talking about old times just to
make sure that us new guys know how important you are.
I admit, I've made a thread or two like that in the past myself. But
I look back on them and wince, for the reasons I just stated. I now
make it my solemn duty to let people like that know how they appear to
the new guys.
Hope I haven't offended. But it's true.
So yeah, there. Those are my reasons.