I'm sorry for my part in it. Several people had already alluded to the truth about shiny's death and basically asked him to stop, and he didn't. There are a couple posters who I no longer respect who knew about it and tried to bring it up in the FFA in a very inappropriate way in the last year and a half. For the most part, those aliai no longer post at FBG. But this wasn't much better. I'm sorry to see it come out this way, but I'm glad it's out there.
Today is the first time I've been as mad over something on the internet as I was when Mark Wimer said that he was glad shiny was dead so he wouldn't see how wrong he was about global warming and refused to apologize. I have about equal respect for him and icon.
I'm sure many of you were hit just as hard by shiny's death as I was, and I'm sorry you had to hear about his suicide this way. That was the last time I cried, and I cried more than once. I still get choked up thinking about it.
To icon's credit, after Joe locked one of the threads, icon apologized in the other one which has since been deleted. I've accepted his apology, and I'll try not to bring it up again. I think it's good that the thread was deleted, and I'm sorry for pushing it over the line. I'm sure I overreacted, but there aren't too many things the last few years that have hit me as hard as shiny's death, and I'm not very good at tolerating people who disrespect it.
Thanks to those of you who PMed me or tried - my mailbox was full when I got back from a meeting and I appreciate the thoughts. I'm going to take a break from FBG for a while now.