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Originally Posted by gblake
Folks/John,
I think that John's message is useful and interesting; but off-target at this moment.
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While I agree with you that CraigHickman has never posted anything worthy of a negative comment or an excessively critical PM (quite frankly I have almost never seen anything worthy of this on CD) I think the fact that this thread exists shows that at least to a certain amount Craig needed to think longer about the situation. If he wasn't feeling hurt and in need of venting he would have informed his closer friends and left it at that. Even though he didn't directly air his dirty laundry, to a certain amount he has and IMO JVN hit the nail on the head when he said it was a cry for attention.
I have seen farewell threads on numerous other forums and they always fill me with a certain amount of shame in the community that I'm a part of. But much more importantly they always seem to be posted by a person who I had a great deal of respect for, who posted interesting threads, put forward new and perhaps controversial ideas and was a large part of that community. While this is usually the reason that they are leaving it always causes me to loose a lot of the respect that I one held for that person.
I don't tend to be a large part of online communities (or for that matter local communities) and this is something that I'm always trying hard to work on. Someday I hope to have as much presence here as Craig still seems to, despite leaving, and that he rethinks his decision, or at least takes up many of the people on their offers to help him resolve the conflict.
I will miss seeing his excellent CAD work in the gallery and his thought provoking posts on the forums. I'm not going to try and tell him their "just dots" because I put more importance in my own "dots" than that but I do hope he takes the negative comments less personally.