Posted by noa on May 11, 2003, at 20:17:26
In reply to Only one PBC in this thread? Hmmmmmmm......, posted by ~Alii~ on May 10, 2003, at 20:29:22
I am still puzzled--although there were some things said in the thread about the former babbler that clearly were negative, by one particular poster (and yes, I see now from the "testing" post that it is likely someone with a brand new name), others in the thread said only nice things about the former babbler, and just expressions of missing her. Other than the one unfair comment about the archives, etc.that came from the "new" poster, I didn't see anyone pursuing any answers as to why the person left. I think those who felt obligated to protect the person's name might have had a lot more success just saying, "She's fine, taking a break." or something brief to that effect, and the thread would have probably been a lot less heated and much shorter.
I am also puzzled at why so much anger at Shar? Shar posted a very benign post about the issue of asking after someone we might miss, even respecting the request to leave names out of it:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20030506/msgs/225601.html
And then, I feel some extremely unfair accusations were made toward Shar in the following post:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20030506/msgs/225662.html
I am, as I am sure others here are, truly sorry that the former babbler felt traumatized here at babble. She is someone I enjoyed having around. I respect her choice to stay away from babble, though, and wish her well.
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