Re: This Time ... I Won't Be Back ...
Originally posted by Ahnold
Hmmm … 1900 posts. I guess that this is as good a time as any to get this over with …As much as it pains me to say this, I’m sorry to tell you all that, once I’ve reached my personal "milestone" of 2000 posts, I’ll be leaving the KMC. And I won’t be coming back …
This certainly hasn’t been an easy decision for me to make, and it’s one that I’ve wrestled with for the last few days. But I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the only way forward. Please allow me to explain …
I signed up to the KMC almost a year ago for the flimsiest of reasons {I was looking for spoiler photos for "The Matrix Revolutions"!}; but once I’d looked around a bit, I realised that this was actually a pretty cool place to hang out and chat with others, and so I thought I’d stick around for a bit. And now here I am, and nearly a year has passed …
That’s the problem with the KMC – it’s just too damn addictive! Over the past two months, I’ve made a whopping 800 posts here, and most of them in this very forum; it was when I discovered this startling fact a couple of days ago that I realised that this place is simply eating up too much of my time. And I just don’t trust myself to go back to being the "casual" poster that I was in the beginning …
It’s a shame, really; once I realised that I’d be sticking around, I envisaged great things of my time here, like beating yerss' monumental post count, as well as twisted delusions of modhood! But even though I didn’t actually achieve any of those things, I’ve had such a fun time here that none of it really matters …
Wow I feel just the same, it is addictive.
Originally posted by Ahnold
Huh - I was wondering where this thread had ended up. I guess I should be grateful that it lasted in the JB forum for as long as it did (and that Raz didn't just delete it 😛 ).To be fair Clovie, I don't think that yerssot can be blamed if other members of the JB forum have decided to post there less often following his departure; after all, even if the forum has arguably lost its biggest contributor, that doesn't mean that others need to follow suit. I, for one, would love to see former regulars to the 007 forum, such as yourself, come back and post there on a more regular basis. Yerssot himself, I'm sure, did not intend his absence to have these kinds of repurcussions.
And speaking of his departure, I actually spoke with yerssot via PM a few months back about this very subject. And it appears that his reasons for leaving the KMC were much like my own when I said that I was leaving for good back in 2004; as much fun as this place is, it can, for some, occasionally become a bit too demanding and time consuming, to the point that you sometimes feel the need to get away for a bit in order to re-focus on what your priorities are. Admittedly, I'm sure that none of us thought that yerssot would be away so long (it's been almost 2 years now since his last post to the KMC 🙁 ), but I can understand the reasons why. In any case, though, yerssot never closed the door on his time here, and so, as he himself said in his message, we can still all hopefully look forward to his return to the forums sometime in the not-too-distant future 🙂 .
Thats good to hear, as well as your return welcome back and merry christmas.
Y'know it's funny. Looking back over this thread, over 3 years after I created it, all I can think is how glad I am that I never went through with my initial decision to leave the KMC permanently; whilst my (frequent 😛 ) absences have often been what I needed at the time, I've met so many great people on here (and still have so much fun chatting here) that I'm happy I swallowed my pride and decided to come back after vowing that I never would 😛 . I'd like to think that I've now found a good balance between KMC and, well, the real world (😄), and I just hope that yersott will, one day soon, do the same ...
Wow - didn't expect this many replies this quickly 🙂 ; well, that's the advantage of this thread being moved to the OTF I suppose 😛 ...
Thanks so much, everyone, for your kind wishes; I should probably point out, though (slightly embarassingly), that I've actually been back at the KMC for a good long while now 😛 (although I admittedly haven't posted in the OTF for yonks now).
A very merry christmas and a happy new year to you all as well (and, indeed, to everyone at the KMC). Hope you all have a good one 🙂 .
Originally posted by Cloviewell, come back when you can, it's good to see an old schooler return. 😄
oh..nothing much.. uni.. life.. and xmas now 😄
it's just that it is a bit absorbing.. though I miss kmc.. and people who were here in 2004/05 the most 😱 bagand gotta go before I get all sensual 😛 cya