Dear Joe

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Dear Joe,

 

I've been wanting to say this for a while, but have never seemed to find a good time, what with holidays and executions and what not.  However, things being what they are I feel that I HAVE to say this or else I will simply go mad.

I feel like you and I are drifting apart, and that scares me.  We used to be so close....you'd be the first thing I thought of when I awoke in the morning and we'd enjoy each other over coffee.  I'd think of you alot and would come to see you during the day, often falling asleep still warm from your embrace.  You'd make me laugh and smile and I felt so WANTED when I was with you. Ah, those were the days, Joe....we were in love and so, so happy.

But lately.....well, I feel that you have grown tired of me.  Over the past year I've come looking for you only to find that you have changed, sometimes almost unrecognisably.  Now when I look at you I realize that I don't even know who you are anymore.  You've become so distant.....sometimes when I come to you you act as if you don't know who I am and I have to keep telling you my name before you remember me.  I thought at first that you might have Alzhemer's disease and almost made an appointment for you to see a neurologist, but then I realized that you treat OTHER people with recognition.  You remember THEIR names, but not mine.....why, Joe?  Why do you treat me with such disdain?  Haven't I been good to you?  Didn't I pay you all the attention you could ever want?  Didn't I treat you right?  Why are you doing this to me?  We used to be so GOOD together, Joe....it felt as if we could conquer the world!  And happy, we were so, so happy......

But that was then.  This is now....and now you treat me as a stranger.

You have broken my heart, Joe User.  You used me, you abused me; you chewed me up and you spat my mangled remains out of your mouth.  I am broken and you are at fault.  I may never recover from this - I hope that you can live with what you've done to me.

It's all your fault.

Love, Dharma.

 

P.S. We can still be the way we were if you promise to stop acting like you don't know who I am.

P.P.S. Call me? 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Do I know you from some place?

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
JoeUser is on the schedule to receive some web dev love this year.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
JoeUser is on the schedule to receive some web dev love this year.


While the idea of new web deb excites me, I don't know if that's what dharma is referring to . . . it might be that the content has been rather uninteresting of late . . .

but either way, content or form, change is good.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
While the idea of new web deb excites me, I don't know if that's what dharma is referring to . . . it might be that the content has been rather uninteresting of late . . .


It's a little of both. I reminisce about the days when I first started blogging, when JU's forums looked VERY different to the way they do today - and those changes are partially what I meant when I talked about how I sometimes hardly recognize JU today - the new users being the other part.

And yes, the content has been really rather ho-hum lately.

Do I know you from some place?


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Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Unconditional love gone south. Ah, for the good old days.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah, I have to admit that I liked the look and function of the old forums.

As for content, well hell, I'm sorry.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Yeah, I have to admit that I liked the look and function of the old forums.

As for content, well hell, I'm sorry.

Aww, Mason!  It's not your fault; yours is one of the blogs that I love to read regularly (even tho I don't say much sometimes).  You consistently provide entertainment, as do most of the people I read.  I'm just reminiscing about the flame fests that we used to have is all.  You know, the kind where blogger A says "your a stupid head' and blogger B says 'no, YOU are the stupid head because you don't know the difference between your and you're!!!!' (and you have no idea how hard it is for me to leave that first mis-placed 'your' alone and post this comment anyway) and thus a thousand articles about how A is dumber than B and a bad speller to boot are spawned and a full-on flame fest is born.

*sigh*  I feel like picking on someone.  Lucas, where are you...?

 

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
You know, the kind where blogger A says "your a stupid head' and blogger B says 'no, YOU are the stupid head because you don't know the difference between your and you're!!!!' (and you have no idea how hard it is for me to leave that first mis-placed 'your' alone and post this comment anyway) and thus a thousand articles about how A is dumber than B and a bad speller to boot are spawned and a full-on flame fest is born.


I would say another is brewing. Be still your breaking heart! I am sure someone is going to start one soon!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's not your fault; yours is one of the blogs


Actually, that should be your's.

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
sniff, me too dharma, these days joe pretens not to know me either, I have to sign in each and everytime I visit, as if I am some unwanted stranger.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
It IS different.

I'm not crazy about the format (or as MM pointed out, having to log in all the time), but the dynamics seem different. Most of the great people I've always enjoyed interacting with are still here, but there's something I can't put my finger on that makes JU less satisfying in some way.

This was a great article, dharma. Very creative way to express what you (and many of the rest of us) are feeling.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think the new forum is fine - a bit clinical looking but thats clean looking. As for flamefests - hell girl start one! this place has been soooo quiet for the December to the point I was glad the bot attacked the site and jumbled up and tossed out all the old threads for me to read!

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Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't mind the format so much in the forums, but I don't like that it loses the cookie for who I am when click on 'em. I end up having to sign back in, or hit the back button.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't have to log in all the time, only if I clean my cache out.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

Well Dharma you wrote a mighty fine article!  liked how you addressed it too

you miss the flamefests?  good Lord Dharma!  you're the one that cried out for it to stop!  Just a few months ago!!   Now you gots to make up your mind woman!!

Wait,  you're a woman, you can change your mind all you want!

 

Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here's a minor fireball on your article, though not directed at you....

Jennifer1, I HATE your smileys! Fuck, are they ever annoying!

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Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
you miss the flamefests? good Lord Dharma! you're the one that cried out for it to stop! Just a few months ago!! Now you gots to make up your mind woman!!
Wait, you're a woman, you can change your mind all you want


Exactly. I can change my mind anytime I want to, it's my perogative as a woman.

A little flame fest every now and then keeps things interesting. It's only when they go too far and are monotonous (I'm thinking in the style of ColGene and his Bush hatred)that I get tired of them. Heck, this is a community and we are humans, we're bound to fight from time to time.

I don't have to log in all the time, only if I clean my cache out.


I'm going to have to clean mine; today I've had to sign in every single time I've come here.


Very creative way to express what you (and many of the rest of us) are feeling


Thank you. I'm glad it's not just me....

there's something I can't put my finger on that makes JU less satisfying in some way.


I don't know what it is either. I can't figure out what it is for the life of me, but I think that the new format doesn't help.

me too dharma, these days joe pretens not to know me either, I have to sign in each and everytime I visit, as if I am some unwanted stranger.


*sigh* Whilst I am sad that Joe has abandonded you too, I am glad to know that I have good company. Let us wallow in our misery together!

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
ennifer1, I HATE your smileys! Fuck, are they ever annoying!

ha.


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Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
We need some new blood to start blogging....it seems you are all growing bored....so get to it guys start recruiting new bloggers...