# Why I'm Leaving This Board **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2022, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063 "2022-03-15T00:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/241 "2022-05-26T18:54:37Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Nobody ever “unobtrusively flounced from the room” or “stealthily flounced to the door to elude observation”. How would we even know if they had? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/242 "2022-05-26T19:13:39Z")
Touché! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/243 "2022-05-26T19:33:45Z")
Has this run it’s course now? Nobody made gdave leave and he’s free to return. No rules were broken either. And as far as I can tell no new rules were created. Isn’t time to put this to bed? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/244 "2022-05-26T19:37:02Z")
“Why I’m Leaving This Thread” ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/245 "2022-05-26T20:50:13Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > I don’t think I fully realized it at the time, but the material I flagged was triggering for me. This statement of honest self-awareness has been roundly ignored in the prolific discussion that has followed. None of our business why it was so triggering, such a “personal and sensitive issue” but it was. The rest of us apparently do not share that trigger, the mod loop had no way to know about it, and avoiding every member’s triggers is not possible or even desirable, even if all are known. It seems pretty clear that @gdave brought a steamer trunk of baggage to this interaction, that no one else could be aware of. As a result they still see asking questions as “just asking questions” and as“sealioning” and experienced intent that others who were part of the interactions did not in anyway see. And is insulted that those others do not see the reality as they, based on their unshared personal history, know is truth. I am sorry for whatever hard personal history @gdave has. And I hope that at some point this place returns to their play activity list. But reading the post that set off this most recent flurry of activity in this thread a good long break from here seems wise. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/246 "2022-05-26T21:18:42Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > This statement of honest self-awareness has been roundly ignored in the prolific discussion that has followed. No, it hasn’t been ignored at all. This is precisely why many of us have expressed skepticism that @gdave’s account of his interaction with @Chronos is objective and fair. And why many of us have also emphasized our respect for @gdave as a poster and our hope that he returns. He was wrong here, but in a manner that is completely human and understandable when you are strongly emotionally invested in an issue. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/247 "2022-05-26T22:08:26Z")
I concur. But too many have picked this thread as an excuse to stir the midden and attack the mods. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/248 "2022-05-26T22:25:27Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I hope gdave will evaluate the timeline of events…and perhaps reconsider whether he’s being fair. > > I also think it would be reasonable, if he wanted it, for the mods to forward/screenshot/whatever the conversation he lost access to… though, again, I have no particular desire to see it for myself. I agree that if @gdave takes on board the facts elucidated in this thread and wants to reevaluate whether he overreacted, reviewing the text of the conversation might help him. However, when someone is energized in this manner about a legal issue, real or imagined, I could well understand a reluctance to disinter what is (from the Board’s perspective) a dead issue. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/249 "2022-05-27T00:46:11Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > “Why I’m Leaving This Thread” “Why I’m leaving this? Bored.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/250 "2022-05-27T00:47:22Z")
What I’m cleaving with? Sword. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/251 "2022-05-27T01:31:44Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > “Why I’m Leaving This Thread” “Why I’m too sexy for these threads.” - [Fred](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/252 "2022-05-27T02:02:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > “Why I’m leaving this? Bored.” Why? I’m leaving. _This_? Bored. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/253 "2022-05-27T03:21:36Z")
_Why I’m Leaving This Board:_ The Tony Hawk Retirement Story ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/254 "2022-05-27T03:59:46Z")
_Why I’m Leavening This Bread_ by a Jewish Apostate. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/255 "2022-05-27T04:11:10Z")
Why I’m Leaving? _This bored!_ ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/256 "2022-05-27T06:16:04Z")
Why I’m Leaving This Board, by Jack Dorsey > **[Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter's board of directors](https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/jack-dorsey-twitter-board)** > > Dorsey signaled his plans last fall. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/257 "2022-05-27T07:48:47Z")
_Why I’m Leaving This Beard_ by [Billy Gibbons](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.iheart.com/alternate/amp/5-rockers-without-their-famous-beards-for-nobeardday-2017-10-18/) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/258 "2022-05-27T12:56:00Z")
_Why I’m Squeezing this Chord_ [![](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/169928456.jpg) ](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/169928456.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/259 "2022-05-27T15:35:28Z")
_Why I’m wielding this sword_ [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xc8akxwI56s/maxresdefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xc8akxwI56s/maxresdefault.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-im-leaving-this-board/961063/260 "2022-05-27T15:38:56Z")
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