I admit that I was one of the people who just today wrote and asked
Phillip about the hidden feature. I was curious about it, and I freely admit that I was worried a little about it.
I was freaked out! Plain and simple. I think most of us are kind of "burned" by what happened last week--
and in the past
few weeks--at the old stompin grounds. Before, we never knew how many people were lurking, and most of the time we sure as hell didn't think it was any trolls, cause they'da been right out in the open in the good ol' days....
Now, because of the trouble with people like iluvbbm/"Michelle," and because here we can SEE that there might be lurkers, we are seriously paranoid about them, when in truth we ARE a lot safer here than we ever were before.
Even though it's
great to be here, we are seeing in the past day or so the effects of last week. We were in survival mode and were united against the common enemy last week, and now that we have the space to fall apart a little, there's bound to be a few waves to rock our boat. We've been through our own version of an earthquake in cyberland. Tempers and fears flare up in crisis or post-crisis. We all might need to sit back and take more of a "me-week" like Studly is trying to do, if he could lurk in peace.
So, now that I understand the "hidden" feature more, and have been reassured from reading people's reasons to use it,
I agree with Victoria, Del, Studly, Surf, and everyone who is in support of NOT turning it off but allowing it to be used. I trust Phillip to know what is going on with anything here. I think we can handle that some of us would like to stay abreast of what is going on here without being pressured to play the game or contribute a post, or respond to PMs. No one has said anything to ME if I am just cruising and not sayin' much, but then again, I'm not the studly wonder that David is!!
By the way, if you can't tell,
David, we love you more than all the whiskey and elk meat in the world, and we sure would hate to see you go! I also agree with you about the political thing re: wiretapping and how we are being asked to sacrifice freedom for security. I would rather have the freedom to lurk and trust that our Administrator is finally one we
can trust to keep us safe from any major harm.
I don't want Phillip to feel like he needs to do anything more for us than he has already done, so I would vote to let things just stay the way they have always been. We are just getting all our kinks out from the move, from the hectic and rather sad circumstances in which we had to leave our old home. Please forgive us for our jumpiness Phillip. We're alll like horses with a low startle point right now and need a good ride or two from Jack!!!
(Did I just say that? Yep!)