[Zero]

well. . . it has seemed oddly quiet around here and I'm beginning to see why.

yesterday my evil alter ego - HIS HERALD - overtook me and began posting innocuous though slighly irrelevant posts about HIS coming (some of you may remember my friend Herald as a fake avatar I used to announce my return from one of my periodic slumbers).

well - I'll admit it was mainly just screwing with people in the hopes of livening things up around here. I'll return to the fact that nothing was offensive, obscene or even really attacking (just lots of 'HE is coming' stuff). and i even tried to make it vaguely relevant to the threads.

but it does speak, in my mind at least, to the lethargic nature of this place (once you could be sure that any post would get five or six responses within an hour or so - these days i can log in throughout the day and see barely any movement). i am not in favor of obnoxious trolls - but it does seem that the rules of what counts as 'obnoxious' have become strikingly strict.

so - if some mod wants to ban me for my little alter-ego prank - feel free. after three years on this forum, i can't really say i'm sure i'll be here much longer anyway.