@Cyberus
You misunderstand. I wasn't chiding you for saying it. I took it as a joke, but the fact is that there's no butt kissing necessary. The orchestrated lie (aka "the great exodus") aside, the number of people who've ever been banned on this site -- or even had any real problems -- is an amazingly small number.
When you consider that CU_Amiga and his immediate buddy list make up a full 1/4 of that list, you might begin to understand that people have been conditioned to think that Amiga.org is evil where no such truth exists.
If you take a look at the bigger picture, you might even realize the motivations behind that forced perception. First, I was termed "evil" because I refused to become the "wholly-owned puppet" of Amiga Inc. I refused, because at that time, I had been repeatedly made promises, none of which came true. I also made the mistake of expressing an unpopular opinion about their choice of PPC. An opinion which not only got me banned from their "secret society", but has borne itself true today because the "holy triumvirate" has pretty much held itself into obscurity..
No matter though, when I refused, "they" simply found and recruited other puppets. It is interesting to note that these said puppets are now be subjected to the same treatment of lies and broken promises.
Then... Enter another interesting party, waving around promises and lots, and lots of money. Despite the better judgment of my friends and now ex-wife, I made the terrible mistake of trying to provide for my family by supporting the "Amiga" community professionally which -- as I said -- is the only thing I wanted (at the time) for over 10 years....
We all know how that turned out, so there's no sense in rehashing it. Suffice to say however that this has left me (and Amiga.org) squarely orphaned between those who want to blindly follow either path religiously. Humorously enough however, I find this a great place to be, because I'd rather be an orphan without a home than a puppet any day.
In the end, I know I've taken the long road around simplicity with this post, but it doesn't matter. The fact -- despite the perceptions being forced on everyone -- is that people are welcome to use Amiga.org. That's why it's here, but there's no mass banning, nor anything else going on.
If you want to "love" either platform, that's fine. It's not my place to tell you what you can and can't enjoy using. My only interest is providing you with a site on which to do it. Just understand that in my personal and professional history between one company run by incompetence and another run by thieves, I have earned the right to my own opinion.
Wherein Amiga.org is concerned, the only thing I've ever asked is that people behave like adults, and not like petulant children trying to war over two computers which -- in the end, due to their own stupidity -- simply aren't going to make a huge dent in the desktop world.
CU_Amiga and his ilk simply fail to pass the "adult" portion of that test so there's not really anything left to say about that.
