Hmm... Well of course I can't speak for Lanolin, but for myself I'm more jaded than bored. I've been here for years, and I've seen 'em come and seen 'em go. And my snippy comments are because I've seen some things happen before and know how they will happen this time. To paraphrase Sherlock, if you have seen something happen a thousand times it is a very strange thing if you cannot predict how it will go when it starts up the thousand and first time.
Let's see... The latest negative reactions you gave me were in the posts where chong rolled through and fired off a few sermons at us. That is as good an example as any to illustrate the point.
We get a lot of Self Appointed Preachers (SAPs) coming through here. Sometimes some people feel the need to preach at others, to feed their self righteousness, and usually the sermons are rather recriminatory in nature. So when chong came in and started preaching at us, and the sermons were rather condemning, it was a pretty good bet we had another SAP on our hands.
However there were a few unanswered questions before we could be certain this was another SAP. Would she fire off a few sermons and move on to other forums? Would she hang around and keep berating us? Would she ignore my comments or would she get upset and fire back or would she roll with it and make some jokes about the mild critiques I left in her threads? Her response would tell us much about her and her purpose here. So I left a few comments that were not too harsh, but picked at some facets of her sermons that could use a bit of mild criticism, to see what would happen.
Of course we got no response, because apparently she fired off those sermons in a drive-by, on her way to other forums.
Mind you, I do not explain this defensively. I don't owe you an explanation, nor do I need to defend myself against accusations. I offer this explanation as a courtesy. You seem like an awfully nice person. You're a bit quick to jump to defend someone, even when the old forum hands are saying "Yeah, no, you shouldn't be defending that one," but for character that's not necessarily a BAD sign for you.
Unfortunately I can't explain a doggone thing about Lanolin. All I can explain is me. And I can't explain everything about me, as I don't fully understand myself.