I don't have a great "big picture" answer to any of this, nor can I place total blame on any one person or specific group of people. Yes, I see some posters are more friendly with each other than with others. That's to be expected when you make friends anywhere. But to pick out who belongs in what clique and clearly define those "borders" would be really difficult for me to do.
I think that there are posters here who are more popular and revered than others. I think of SW as an internet version of a really cool and big strip club, and the politics of SCs are generally pretty high school-ish. You have your popular girls and the not-so popular ones, then the ones who float around back and forth between the two. I kind of think of myself as the latter, but I have always been and always will be a loner at heart. I am used to most people not agreeing with me and I'm okay with that. It's just the manner in which they disagree that sometimes gets to me.
There has been a lot of "group thinking" here and I can sense and even attest to the feelings of fear of saying things and getting bashed to shit because of ONE simple word or sentence that wasn't intended to be harmful but taken the wrong way. Some people have a tendency to be "yes-men" and enjoy unscrewing a jar lid that someone else already loosened so that they can take credit for someone else's thoughts inadvertently. Then it becomes an all out flame-fest because people like to feel validated in their opinions. That's human nature, but it gets really gross sometimes.
Where are the Lounge mods anyway? Can mods from other sections intervene over here?
I thought about apologizing for something here just to get the ball rolling, but I'm not quite sure what to apologize for honestly. I feel like all my thoughts have been pretty valid and I feel justified in typing them out here. I guess all I can say is that if I've unnecessarily contributed to a flame war against anybody, then I am sorry. I will still continue to post my opinions, even if they go against the grain...ESPECIALLY if they go against the grain and you can all be forewarned that I never intend for my posts to be flamey in nature, unless it is directed at Sophiemarie.

I honestly don't post just to flame and I feel like my thoughts contribute to intelligent conversation. If people are offended by how I think, then I just ask that they don't respond to what I have to say because I am not a malicious sort of person for the sake of it, especially on the freakin' internet - jeez. People have to pay me to experience real degradation anyway. LOL
Soooo.....while I am here:
Happy Birthday, Miss Tart of Fabulousness!
*cough*
Just so everyone knows, mine is June 8th.

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