Kishkumen wrote:What would prompt him to do this?
I can't know or say for sure, but I did watch what he was doing right up until he pulled the ripcord entirely.
He had written a kind of summary of his position where he referred to this as a "mob". Having years ago been the one fielding posts of many posters at one time (I mentioned this earlier) it's no easy task. It really does feel like a mob when you and your position are the central focus. There are very few posters in these political threads or Mormon related threads in Terrestrial that will ever experience that.
Anyway, he did respond to the attack post. Then he wrote another post wondering why everyone remained silent to the attack but for Cam. Then he started deleting bottom up until his OP was the last to go.
I do know one thing about Ceeboo. When he feels like a thing is getting too hostile and he starts to getting anywhere near nasty himself, he'll leave. He has far more self control than I in that regard. Me, I tend to dig in and slug it out a while, or simply laugh it off when it's laughable. Whether or not he can see his part in a build up or whether or not others can see their part, I can't judge that. A majority of the thread doesn't exist to even review now to try to determine where it went wrong. I'd be willing to chalk it up to dynamics and call it good.
In any case, this thread is really reflective of the current political climate. Everywhere we look online there is hostility over even the smallest things. I hope--hope--that we could recognize that this is a community. Some of us have been with each other for decades. Sometimes it's the personalities we encounter on the other side of the screen that is responsible for what we say/do, sometimes there are other things going on in real life that pressure us, and sometimes it's both.
And then you end up with the perfect storm. I look forward to Ceeboo's return when/if he's return.