The amount of drama queening that goes on in these forums is atrocious, lol. For the record, I've never had any ill feelings towards Franko, but to me he's just another guy dedicated to the Amiga in an almost religious form, and there's lots of said types here on A.org. I respect him for his faith in the platform, even if I know in my gut aspirations of Amiga coming back from the dead is about as likely as Jay Miner coming back from the grave is.
1 - if Franko quit the forums due to people harassing him via PM's, he should have dealt with that via moderators. If that was the case, it's unacceptable. Same goes for if persons were contacting him off the forums and harassing him based on his posts on A.org.
2 - he's never, ever - been shy of stating his opinions in rather blunt manners, and he's got responses in the exact same fashion as his posts warranted. I've never seen anyone say "quit picking on Franko, he's a saint and never said anything in confrontational tones here"
3 - can't take the heat countering your opinions, get out of the kitchen. Very few people here or elsewhere are seriously waking up each day expecting so see that the Amiga has crushed the PC/Mac market. Being optimistic is fine, but most people are realists, lol. people are entitled to their opinions.
All that being said, after reading for a week about how a guy "might be leaving A.org and the internet altogether", the situation reeks of primadonna drama queening, and that's reprehensibly annoying in any forms. When people post in aggressive ways, they generally get replies in the same tone, and rightly so.
At the end of the day, there are ways to ignore other forums users rather than to pull a "I'm taking my ball and going home, nya nya" move and simply quit, no? it's a shame to see the guy go, if he's left - he's been quite a help to the community here.
Just my 2 bits anyways,
Duce
