OK Studly. If you saw my post on Phillip's thread thanking him for turning it off, I did that completely without thinking it through. I just thought "oh look, he got requests and now he's accomodating them. That's so nice of him!" I am not used to an administrator who is actually considerate and thinks things through before acting because IMDb is my only prior message board experience, and we all know that if IMDb admins are even human beings, the certainly don't read threads before deleting them.
Of course it is understandable for opinions to differ, but much of what you read as attacks on you I read as kind-hearted teasing. You said you were taking time off, but you came back and posted. I have tried to tell myself several times that I will not get on the board for a day (or even for half a day) and try to catch up on homework or whatever, but I can't stay away. I like it too much here. I just thought aww, David loves it here as much as I do and can't leave for too long at a time like me. I can't speak for anyone else, but I think the only reason you got comments about being here is that you specifically said that you were taking time off from it. Personally, there are several windows I leave open on my computer here in my dorm room all day, from when I turn the computer on when I wake to when I turn it off when I go to sleep. This board is one of them, so I'm pretty sure it shows me as being online all day even when I'm not in the building. I have never gotten a single comment about being online and not posting, because I never said I was going to leave the board. Anything I ever said to you about being hidden and lurking or anything else mentioned in your post was purely affectionate joking. That is the downfall of the internet, it is hard to tell when someone is joking or not.
I think that if you don't want to leave the board, then don't. You are one of my favorite people here, and many of us would be sad to see you go. I'm still holding out hope for you coming to Chicago to meet Celeste, Andrew, and I (we're all really quite wonderful!). I think that if you give it even one more week, the level of paranoia will be significantly depleted. I feel quite safe here, and hope others will soon too.