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I don't know. When Jovani gets his mind set on something, he's very stubborn. And I think he may be in a lot of pain, here. He took care of Omega, but he has lots of other demons to fight. Show him your support, guys, but don't pester him to return.

Post edited because I answered my own damn question.

The thing that bothered me the most about the whole thing that led up to JoVo's departure was how nobody could just drop it or take it into private. It's like when my parents used to scream at each other over the top of my head, I didn't want to hear it and it made me so mad that they couldn't even see how much it was bothering me. No one should've even responded to that thread that JoVo made. JoVo's first post there didn't bother me, it was everybody's posts after it that upset me.

This isn't your private place to shout at each other until you're too tired to be mad anymore. This is a public place where everyone can see what you're saying and they have to deal with it when two people fight in public. It's not just between you and them, it's between you and them and everyone else who is fidgeting in the corners of the room wondering what to do.

I know I'm not in any place to judge anybody, and frankly I don't know most of the people involved as much as I'd like to. But I do know what it feels like when people you count on to be mature and responsible reduce themselves to a shouting match.

I agree with both of you. Unfortunately, there's not much anyone can do to stop mods from posting where and when they will. sad If JoVo had wanted to make a guild to protest this, and provide a nice little link, I would totally support it, all the way. I dunno. Once again, I apologize to all of you...

No apology necessary. You didn't do anything wrong. And as far as I'm concerned, neither did JoVo nor Kokoryta. They both did what came natrually to them, which was defend their rights as individuals to their actions in a situation. JoVo wanted it known what had happened, and Koko did her best to explain to JoVo what happened.

In college, one of my philosophy professors would almost call this a logical argument (if you ever take Logic, you'll know what I mean).

Well, I explained part of my own reason for posting in public, and you'll see that one of the things I said there was that the response shouldn't have been public. I don't object to JoVo posting about it, I object to the manner in which he wrote, because it was inflammatory and he's smart enough to have known that, and to the place, because while it was OK to say something in this guild, he should not have made an inflamatory post in a manner and format that invited discussion( since the discussion was likely to be harsh, and not suited to the guild).

No he didn't, but he also felt that talking with me in PMs wans't enought for him *shrugs* but I am not going to get into this debate again.