Love him or hate him - his second collection of transcripts is out

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Respenus

On a final note, I must say that I am shocked and disturbed by the increase in hostility against Skybird in the past couple of years. I realise that his comments put him on the wrong end of many a debate, but at least he was engaged in discussions in the past. Today he has been made into a pariah, an unworthy and undeserving position for such a long-standing and active member of Subsim.

It isn't the other members that changed, it was Skybird that changed. He's grown into the belief that it is his role to bring the enlightenment of fringe politics to the masses, and while that in itself is not particularly contemptible, he then treats the forum like it is his personal blog. He belittles those that disagree with him, and goes as far as telling people that they need to kill themselves. Given the contempt that he has dished out, particularly over the past few years, I can't see how member reaction against him would be shocking or disturbing at all. Sometimes contempt is earned.