Kato I am fairly certain nobody here wants to see you leave or see you stop hosting this site. I am quite confident that nobody would vote against you if it was even put to a vote.
From what I have seen of this site and what I have been told about the previous one, this group of people have been incredibly civil to each other compared to many other forums on the net, especially considering the wide range of views and thoughts we have.
The whole debate about canon seems to have been taken far too personally by some of us. Twilight 2000 canon does not simply come into being because we desire it to be so however I don't see your statement as being an abuse of your admin powers but I do see it as the reaction of someone who is probably overworked and underappreciated and perhaps frustrated by all that.
I can understand that but I do believe everyone here is supportive of you even if they don't necessarily support the same things as you. Please don't see critiques of someone else's work as a criticism of them and more importanly, you and please don't feel that you have to take immediate drastic action if something looks as though it may flare up. I believe most people here will pull back before letting it get out of hand - maybe some of us just need to be given a gentle hint sometimes but generally we all get along.
And please do not see my non-acceptance of any work not officially sanctioned by the original authors as canon as being in any way critical of you or this forum. I do object to having something not authorised by the original authors being called 'canon' but that in no way means I want to see this forum explode because of that or see you shut it down or that I do not want to see anyone use that material. It also does not mean that I am saying nobody can or should use that material.
I would like to believe that we can all engage in some healthy debate and have it understood that we are critiquing an idea/notion/the material and not attacking the person (even if it does get a little heated, we are only human and some of us are quite passionate about our likes).
However I do feel very strongly that threatening such drastic action over this particular issue just makes people feel uneasy about discussing anything potentially contentious and that sort of thing usually ends in people being very reserved and preferring to not comment because they worry it will be taken the wrong way.
I for one would rather see people get involved in a debate about such things rather than sit back & say nothing for fear of offending anyone - when everyone sits back for fear of upsetting someone, it means no posts are made and that just leads to the death of the thread, or worse, the forum.
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