Hmm... I confess, I needlessly antagonized you when you made accusations. I should have been the adult and remained civil - but I did not. I'm sorry for failing to do that, and I should have. ** The following are not excuses - they are things I actually encourage to you to check and keep checking.** I have absolutely zero interest in manipulating this site (or Voat). I like to make potato posts. I am everything I say I am. I have zero motive to lie to you - you're just pixels on my screen. I don't take part in brigades. I don't initiate brigades. The only reason I'm really here is 'cause I like PMYB2 and I want to see his site succeed. If someone wants to take over a sub I have AND they're willing to provide content, I'll happily hand it over. I grabbed the subs to ensure that I don't bump into a threshold posting limit as I have limited time to post content. (One exception, I grabbed SBBH to reserve it for the SBBH people should they come over in an outage. But, if you are willing to take on posting anime, memes, bad jokes, and potato posts...) I would not even consider taking a position of anything other than that of a regular user. Hell no... I want absolutely ZERO responsibility for the shit you folks do. No, that's not on my list of shit to do. I do have an education and a great deal of experience. I'm very happy to share that with people. I'm mostly retired and I like explaining stuff to people. I'm not being pretentious, unless irked. At that point, I tend to get a bit obnoxious. (That's *really* unlikely to change.) This may be tough to swallow - but bear with me. If I call someone an idiot, there's a reason for it. It may be worth your time to ask me *why* I'm calling them an idiot. There's very good odds that I'm happy to explain it - and already have tried to. I should probably work on that, but I really don't have much patience when I've already explained it. I dislike repeating myself. I can be abrasive, but I'm mostly harmless. I don't ask you to kowtow to me and I have every expectation that I'll be held to high standards because I put myself in that position. (I'm pretty much a national treasure!) I don't agree with the vast majority of people on Voat. I've made that abundantly clear. However, I've never once tried to stop them from saying it. Where I stand is on the side of free speech. My actions absolutely enforce this. I neither voted down, nor deleted, any of your comments. That's correct, I didn't DV a single one of your comments. In a nutshell, that's who I am. If you don't like who I am, it's maybe a good idea just to not seek me out and bug me? You can, but I can only remain civil for so long and then, at that point, I get a bit pissy. I don't actually care if you DV my comments - I'm not here for points. However, you do your fellow site visitors a disservice, because I tend to submit solid things that are interesting, educational, or entertaining. Again, I'm not interested in controlling or manipulating Poal. I'm interested in helping a site about free speech get off the ground while I still have time to do so. I'm not actually sure what you've seen that you think could be anything else. I'm very willing to answer ANY questions you might have (though it's getting a bit late here.) And, indeed, I'm sorry that I responded like an abrasive asshole. I am unable to promise to not do it again - as I tend to do that when people approach me like that.