Yep - sit back and enjoy the ride!!! While these kinds of things appear to be outwardly ugly, they are normal growing pains kind of stuff...
There are boards set up on the net, to get away from other boards BS - which to ME is BS. You've got guys on the net that no matter where they go are a pariah. They establish themselves on the NEW board as a "nice" guy and it sometimes takes months and months to realize they ARE a pariah. It would be really nice if they came to the new board with a sign hanging on their avatar "PARIAN" so you could spot them more easily...
Just think of this situation as a service provided to you by more experienced BOTL's who are trying to rid the net of the pariah's - kinda like calling in the Orkin man. It stinks for a while while the bug joice works, but afterwards it's nice not to be bothered by the cockroaches running around.

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