huh? - CW™

Not our finest moments as a community. - Joe

Are you talking about the rants about people deleting their accounts and then coming back? - CW™

CW, you've been on here as long as me- I'm sure you've seen a fair share, like I have. - anna sauce

Are we turning this into a documentary, or a soap opera? - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Joe, I actually don't blame the community. There are individuals that - during the election period- I learned about in a new way, and I unsubscribed. And blocked. And, problem went away. Whenever anyone has these flaming departures (minus @directeur) I think they just don't know how to use the tool. - anna sauce

Eric- soap opera, DEFINITELY - anna sauce

Brilliant!!!! - Helen Sventitsky

I blame the way many folks conduct themselves that lead up to this bullshit. - Joe

I'd watch it- I definitely enjoy a good dust-up - anna sauce

Joe - for many of these that go through this arc, it's also just a very public lesson in how to engage in social networks. - anna sauce

I am tired of them. That is why I keep my feed private. - Joe

still here. - Mike Nencetti

directeur left? - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

used to happen in newsgroups and forums - the same patterns now move to social networks - if only more publicly (note: I didnt see any of it, but I can imagine) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

the hate directed at people who leave and come back gets real old, real fast. - Jim Hearts FF

directeur left and came back- and in that time he built a new tool that solved the problem that he thought the site had. If that's not a constructive channelling of frustration, I don't knwo what is, lol. - anna sauce

Once in a while I go to YouTube comments to see the real vitriol - anna sauce

hate is just about never a constructive channelling of anything - but it is easier online when you havent met the people to behave in nasty ways you never would do in person - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Anna, Being on social sites as long as we have, we see this like every 3 months. Its nothing new. Its nothing old. Its as it is, human nature. I personally find the bitch sessions about people leaving and coming back annoying, but like you all said its a good Drama fest for the moment and quite entertaining to see people cry and whine over things they have no control over or really any value in, until I have something else to do like go watch porn or make some stupid comment on another thread that needs some immaturity. :) I know my place in the community. :D - CW™

Well said, sir. Well said. - anna sauce

Hey if you need to leave someplace for you to be better, then please do it. Your mental and emotional well being is more important then anything. If I wanted to keep in touch with you, I can find a way some other services. :) If you want to keep in touch with me, then I'm open on all sorts of ways to be contacted. - CW™

That is right CW - I don't need FF to stay in touch w/ whomever but I am tired of seeing people mobbed into leaving too. - Joe

Joe, Yeah that is pretty petty in my book. I do sometimes want to know why someone left, but its just as I said, I hope they are doing better by leaving. That is ultimately more important. I do understand why the mobs complain too, its a anger on their part 1) They are angry their social FF experience will be cut by the persons departure. Cause no matter if your post is liked or commented or if anyone responds to your comment in a thread, everyones contribution increases the experience of the service. Loss of someone from that community decreases that service. 2) they are just in a self anger situation that they used FF to lash out and express it. For these its just best to let them vent and pat them on the back and say "Yeah I'm going to miss them too." :) - CW™

Not to be a told-you-so, but the minute I saw Holden join with his name, "god of FF" based on absolutely nothing, I had a feeling his personality type might go the route of the quick flame. - anna sauce

As someone who's deleted their account before and come back, I don't see what the big deal is. This social networking stuff isn't that serious, and to me the drama is just humorous. - Cristo

got to go find the old flame war character types list, from the newsgroup days - wonderful stuff - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

there it is "flame warriors" http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

ooooh... - anna sauce

+++Joelle + Flame Warriors. there are at least one of each of those active right now on FF and you can just about predict their departures too. EDIT: But most are here for the duration. - Carlos Ayala

LOL oh that is funny: a new term for me, fits perfect, Jung would've loved Holden. These episodes still interest me, as often as they play out, FF is like a "Lord of the Flies" psychological case study. Holden's was particularly amusing as it played out like a High School Drama, for example, I LM-ASS-O when one of those involved DM'd a person to tell me they didn't like me- ughhh, the FF equivalent of texting during class, I wanted to reply: "Well can you DM her, cuz I'm not talking to her anymore, because I think I don't like her she's stinks". Except, yes, we all know the pattern, and the rule is to not engage the trolls, as it only feeds them more opportunities + it's a waste of your time. - sofarsoShawn

For the record, I've never engaged anyone in an effort to run them off. Secondly—and you can verify this from the people who know me offline—, I'm pretty much the same online as I am away from the computer. Third, although I may get into it with people from time-to-time, I never actively seek people out in other people's threads to randomly start shit with them; I may attack the topic but I rarely (if ever, that I can remember) attack the person. Fourth, I am more than happy to admit when I'm wrong about something otherwise how will I ever learn anything? And finally, fifth, I just can't help it if people can't handle how awesome and funny I am! Don't blame me for being this bad ass! It's a curse, I tell you! A curse!# - Akiva Moskovitz

No no no, don't say that! You've been blessed! - sofarsoShawn

I don't buy into the belief that people can be "run off" a service or "forced to quit". FF has plenty of features to change your interaction if you're having issues with other users. You can simply walk away from posts you don't like, use the hide button, or block the person. You can make your feed private. You can unsubscribe from people and subscribe to other people. If someone gets upset enough that they feel they need to delete their account, that's their own deal but it seems like some of these deleters could have just as easily used some of the service's features to solve their issue. - Rochelle

I like to delete my account to remove all the content. It's a side effect that it removes all my subscriptions and subscribers too. :) Also, I agree largely with Akiva, except that he is wrong when he argues with me. P.S. Wall-E sucked. :P - Cristo

Okay, I've changed my mind. I support running Cristo off. - Akiva Moskovitz

Oh no, please no. - Cristo

I also don't believe people are "run off" from Friendfeed. I've seen some people delete their account 3 or 4 times and then come back a week later. Attention seekers who love to be fawned over when they make their return. - Alan Simpson

Some would accuse anyone who uses social media sites like FriendFeed as "attention seekers", and I didn't delete my account for attention, although others may have. - Cristo

I didn't delete mine for attention either (quite the opposite). Frankly, this post annoys me a bit. Why is frustration and anger any less of a valid reason to leave than anything else? We're not robots (except for Mo, of course). - Jason Huebel

Also, I fully support Cristo's comment about Wall-E. It sucked. Like a Hoover. ;-) - Jason Huebel

Jason - Maybe I should clarify - I only have an issue with people who continually jump into divisive arguments, get their feelings hurt, delete their account, wait a week or two, come back with an announcement that they are back, accept fawning, lather, rinse repeat. - Alan Simpson

There's a little bit of "dish it, can't take it" going on with those peaks, I have to say. - anna sauce