I was here a couple months before GSS arrived...right in the middle of the Snowman reign of terror...didn't seem all that different in those 2 months before GSS arrived than it did after.
As for the whole "you don't know what it was like before" line that keeps coming up, its getting tired...we're here now and we're part of the community...what felt like an open and inviting community, but the more you "old timers" toss around your length of tenure and the whole "you haven't been here long enough" bs, the less inviting a place this is to new comers and the less likely they will be to stay and post.
Well put.
I have been mostly silent about all of this.
There was nothing specific about the departed I would hold against him...I don't know him and can only go by what he posted. It was obvious he was passionate about skiing. I liked that. He also spent alot of time online here and elsewhere which is also fine.
The sheer volume of his posts was a bit overwhelming, but easily ignored.
And like everyone else in here, he had his asshole moments.
I still don't really know why he wanted to be a moderator so much. I guess it was a status thing for him.