Need you me explain you to??
I LOVE your posts Phildo and respect your perspective. You can be insulting but you keep it balanced with insight (if you read it a few times Lol). Ya, his postings started to erk me too. I expressed that to him in a post somewhere around the time of the poll.
(Ftr I didn't vote in either of these stay-or-go polls bc I think they're pointless - words don't matter. Time matters. Time tells all truths. Because people can't fake who or what they are forever.)
You have been here a long time and remained the same person: the voice of itellectual sarcasm. Tony has weathered his short time here in rough waters brought about by his excitement of all this subculture has to offer. Sure he wore it on his sleeved, sure it got annoying. But he has stayed who HE IS.
One of the hardest things to find in life - this life especially - are people genuinely committed to being themselves even in the face of failure - or success. To me that is a priceless quality. You and Tony both possess that quality.
Sweater Puppies most certainly does not. Even if I were secretly SP, it would completely discredit who i am to consider or be entertained by treating others that way. Internet or not.
Side note: some people use the internet to hide and pretend they are someone else. Others use it to communicate and interact with others as themselves. I prefer the latter.