About 'Piru'

[commodorejohn]

The thing is though is that there are still mean people here. As an example, Franko was  a smart ass, and brutal sometimes, but he was actually a nice guy (deep underneath it all), which a great sense of humour. Yet he's gone for playing the court Jester, and others who are actually quite annoying all around, are still here.
 I miss the diversity that certain banned members brought to the table, regardless if I agreed with them fully or not. I thought that's what community was about? Not a place for people who all think and conduct them selves in the same manner, but people of diverse mannerisms and believes coming together for a mutual love or cause.

 Sighh... :/

Amen to that. This site has become a shadow of what it was even when I joined because so many of the interesting people have either been banned or chased off...while people who've revealed themselves to be far worse company overall are as present as ever...

[commodorejohn]

Why not if left a.org all of us? no one likes the moderation or owners.

Because I'm a stubborn bastard, that's why. I hung around on the Agony Booth forums until the bitter end even while the site owner was deliberately doing everything he could to drive people off the forums short of straight-up nuking them because he wanted to turn the site into a crap TGWTG knockoff and felt that time people spent having discussions on the forums was time they weren't spending watching the shıtty videos that were replacing the increasingly-lazy recaps. As much as I take issue with a lot of the crap that's happened here in the last couple years, we're nowhere near that point yet.

[commodorejohn]

Am I gonna have to break out a lecture on the four loves here? Because I'll do it, if I have to.

[commodorejohn]

By the way what are the 4 loves?

Those would be philia (friendship/affection,) storgē (familial love,) érōs (intimate/romantic love,) and agápē (charity/compassion/selflessness,) the four terms the ancient Greeks had for different types of love, all of which are rendered in English as simply "love," a word that people today seem to inevitably take to refer to érōs, even when it very plainly doesn't.

Or, in other words: it's much more likely in this context, without more definitive evidence, that rednova would like to, say, shake Piru's hand and buy him a beer for his excellent work (philia) than make out with him for it (érōs.)

This has been your daily lesson in Not Conflating Distinct Emotional States Because Of Linguistic Shortcomings.