C'mon, guys. Except for Hoov, Cylinder and a few others (including some bright ladies with a beautiful smile!) we are just avatars in here... Having ego arguments before a flat screen hitting keyboard keys, is kind of... childish, miserable, wretched, paltry, unhappy, poverty-stricken, mean, measly, squalid, pitiable, beggarly, sordid, piteous, penurious, stingy, godforsaken, poverty-struck, down-at-heel, etc... (Please don't flag me, I don't even know the meaning of these words - they're from google-translation, but you see my point!)

Sure it may be frustrating to have one's post removed, by the sole decision of a hidden 'person', be it a leader. I have been myself. (A certain Mr DeFur was somewhat skilled at this activity on a particular defunct board, you recall?)! But is it so important? I think we put too much value on our avatar's soul! 100% sure that if I post an informative and on-topic post it will never be removed. The grey zone is very large... and it belongs to the attorneys of this world!

By the way, I may be wrong, but the guys or gals who dare to post under their real name and/or photograph do incur very few if not none of their posts to be removed. If one is not ready to do that (for perhaps good reasons, I may agree), one should not complaint of being mistreated, because the mistreated individual is just a virtual creation which may die and re-born and re-die every other day, under any new avatar's name!

Just talking on this beautiful October afternoon, with the ticker at sleep! By the way, I actually see my son outside who is creating some frightening avatars with his friends! Bleeding dead bodies, bare squeletons and dark tombs are embellishing the front yard!

He had the good fortune of being born during December of the second Millenium Year. So one would think that Christmas time would be his preferred Holiday. Nope. October 31st, somewhere between 5 and 9PM, will bring to him the greatest Moment of the Year, and by far! Trick or Treat Night!!! Why? I dunno! At Christmas he gets plenty of presents (his birthday is the 24th!), he meets with cousins and uncles and aunts and can get to sleep at dawn the next morning! He still prefers Halloween...

My take is that this Night of Horror belongs to him entirely. This magical night is kids' exclusive! And he has the utmost absolute right, for a brief but delightful moment, to become who at times the adults make him think he is. A little devil! And no adult will blame him for being a monster on this special Day, but instead will greet the little rascal with a Treat!

Behind our nicknames and virtual characters, we are all kids in some ways, trying to find an echoe from our posts to resound to our existential human solitude!

GLTA.

BaBe.