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The thread mourning my disappearance made me feel a little guilty, so I decided to post. I started out as "kaydeelady83." which was probably something that had just popped into my head. However, this made me appear to be a member of a particular GLO, and this really wasn't fair to them. So I got a new username, first something boring, and then "_Q_." That seemed like an apt choice, since I'd always liked the character Q on Star Trek. As _Q_, I was geniunely curious about a lot of things, one of which turned out to be a very sensitive topic.
"tlnancy" was a homage to Ted L. Nancy, author of the "Letters From a Nut" books. It seemed like the "tlnancy" posts would have been funnier with a different persona, since "_Q_" had asked serious questions.
A while ago, there was a post about how a girl with some kind of physical flaw had rushed and the members had worked to make her love their house, even though they had no intention of inviting her back. I was appalled and wondered whether they thought of the PNM as a human being. Later, I thought about some of my own posts and realized that Carnation was also a human being. It was easy to look at some of the posts on GC and think, "How insensitive," but harder to realize that some of my own weren't any better.
After this, I ended up feeling sort of bad and decided that it was OK for tlnancy's posts to be ridiculous, but they shouldn't be mean. However, tlnancy got banned anyhow, which didn't really bother me too much. Ktsnake did seem to have a valid point. Although I don't think that I was as malicious as his post implied, I did perceive GC as pure entertainment. Maybe that in itself is a problem.
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