@ Cammy
First thing you need to do is get the crazy idea out of your head that no one likes you. That couldn't be further from the truth, so put that notion aside. Sure you can't expect to get on with everyone on a forum, it's just like the real world all sorts of people from all walks of life with different ideas and beliefs. I mean we don't speak to everyone we pass by in life and then think that person doesn't like me because they didn't stop to say hello.
In the short time I've been here I already know there are quite a number of members who don't like me for my style of posting and thats fine by me as I don't expect everyone to understand me or enjoy what I have to say, each to their own I say and I respect that.
I've only ever once really considered giving up the Amiga and that was way back around 88 when I used my old A500s to run a business and make a living from. At the start I thought it was great, I was being paid for something I enjoyed doing but after the first year it became all too serious meeting deadlines and working to meet clients expectations. It had no longer become fun and was just another job.
When I finally realized that I was taking things too seriously and the Amiga had no longer become a fun thing to use, then the best decision I ever made was to shut up shop and go back to using the Amiga for fun & pleasure. I have no regrets about doing so and if I hadn't I would most likely had gone over to the world of PCs which by that time were becoming the obvious way for a business to go.
I reckon what I am trying to say is, yes it's fine to take what you do on the Amiga seriously but don't let it get to the point where you take it so serious that it becomes a chore and is no longer a fun or enjoyable thing to do. Take it from me and my own personal experience, as big a fanatic as I am of the Amiga if I were to let things become too serious again then my days with the Amiga would be over.
So while we wait for someone to post the latest titbit of Amiga news or for fellow members to ask for help with an Amiga related problem, then as others here have said join in the fun & the off topic stuff and heck even the slight disagreements we have, as quite often these days their is not enough new Amiga subjects for us all to talk about each day.
We are a community and being such not everything we have to say has to be Amiga related there should also be time to idly chat about anything and everything but the most important thing is taking part, having fun and enjoying every aspect of what is the quite unique and wonderful world of that they call "The Amiga Community"...
