Who Was "dissention"?
 

I know his name has been brought up from time to time here and he also has more posts than anyone else on here, but I've never talked to him. He hasn't been on here since before I got here, so I was just curious who exactly this guy was. It's obvious he was a huge Mac fan with a lot to say, but I really don't know much about him. Where is he off to now, and why doesn't he post here anymore?

Thanks Guys,
Ethan

Quite frankly, I thought he was you, Ethan, since both you & he have never been here at the same time. :shocked:

He got tired of people like you! :laugh:

Lord, he's been gone 3 years and people are still talking about him. :laugh:

I don't think anybody's heard from him in a long time. He kept up with his LiveJournal for a while after he stopped posting here, but he stopped updating that about a year and a half ago.

This place is a lot less interesting without him around, I'll say that much!

Hey now, he stopped posting before I came here!!!:laugh:

I miss the days of the '03-'05ish crew. We had a ball on here.

Diss was one of my fav's.... he could have me spitting coffee everywhere.... and I don't even drink the stuff.... :]

It was something else! I never would've thought you could have that much fun on a fukcing message board. :cool:

What happened to the '03-'05 crew then???? It's sad that they aren't here because it seems like a lot of you all really liked them.:nod:

I miss us too. :(
BANT.

What happened?

It's a can of worms that is probably best left unopened.

And I don't think most were banned - a lot just stopped posting (I did for a while) and a few of us are still around. I've noticed a few familiar faces have reappeared lately, but it'll likely never really be the same.

Exactly.

I just remember being in Canada when all hell broke loose. :shocked:

.....but I'm glad to be back around. I didn't post for over a year, if not longer....then decided to stick around again for awhile.

..........:thumbsup:

You're probably right. I even had to walk away for a bit. But, no, it will never be the same...
And I really am so glad to see you! :wavey:

Eh, it's water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned. Part of the reason I stepped back for a while, too, was that I really did get over the Mac and Stevie. Totally. I've started back listening to them again, but am mostly out of the loop with what's going on.

I'm glad to see you back here as well, and a few others who have resurfaced. :)

I think we all go through those periods! I know that I have! :nod:

Is Josh (Dissention) still the top poster here?
From what I remember he started off as a massive Stevie fan but his fandom just waned, he discovered new bands, got disappointed with the Mac and the board. It happens.
I wonder what happened to Amber. She was the other big poster around here who simply stopped posting.

He may very well be. Yeah, I think that's basically what happened. I don't think there was any big drama that precipitated his leaving. I'm thinking he basically just got bored with Livejournal and/or got busy with other things, because he just up and quit posting there, too.

She sent me a message via MySpace last summer, but that's the last time I heard from her and she hasn't responded to my last couple of messages. :shrug:

Yeah, Josh still is the top poster. He must've posted like a MADMAN!!! He hasn't been on here in 3 and a half years, yet his "average" is still 11 a day or something like that. :nod:

^^^OMG :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Could someone who speaks Video translate this for me -- specifically its signification in the context of this thread?

Are you calling me a creeper because I asked about Josh?:laugh:

b i n g o :laugh:
kind of applicable to a couple of your crushes too...hehe ;)

You seriously can't figure it out? :laugh:

And btw, I always thought *you* were Ethan. ;)

Most left when you came, I think. Probably just a coincidence.

yeah, that happened to several posters I think.

Yeah, I think he got a life. :shrug: It happens.

I haven't heard from Amber since last summer. No idea what happened to her.

They explained it finally.

I troll as myself. I wouldn't bother trolling as somebody else.

Except on RMASN ;)

It's always people who spend the first few years of their devotion to Stevie being absolutely intolerant of naysayers. It's an enormous Circle of Life. Everyone passes through the same stages, only at different times. Someone passes through the Idolatry stage in, say, 1980. He enters the I Hate Stevie stage in 1988. But somebody else in 1988 is only just entering the Idolatry stage, & gets really mad at the first person because of the things he is saying (fat Stevie, old Stevie, sluggish Stevie). The second person responds with the template speech: "If you don't like Fleetwood Mac anymore, why don't you post somewhere else?"

A year or two ... or three ... go by, & lo & behold the second person starts coming back from Stevie concerts somewhat disappointed: "Don't get me wrong, I still adore Stevie. But she didn't seem to be moving around much. And she wore those ugly frankenshoes, & sang all the same songs in the same way."

A few more concerts, & the second person is seriously DISenchanted with the Great Queen of the Silky-Soft Hair & Hands. But of course by that time, yet another fan is just entering the Idolatry stage, & suggests to the second fan to leave the Ledge "because it's obvious you don't like her anymore, so why are you still here?"

And so on & on & on. The Cycle of Life.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/e...ycleofLife.gif

But, you're leaving out the whole demographic of Fleetwood Mac fans who were fans well before one Stephanie Lynn Nicks ever stopped waiting tables at Hamburger Hamlet or ever set foot in a recording studio....and saw thru the whole "fairies & unicorns" BS she brought to the band...but, against their will, were smitten with her because she had "centerfold" type looks, not because of her voice or songwriting.

i think that demographic is called "chilid."

:lol:

There's also room for those who couldn't care less about the fairies & unicorns & the boots & the shawls & the relationships & the "mystique" and simply appreciate her contributions- both to FM and solo- at face value.

Indeed.

Actually, I don't think Stevie has ever shown any kind of penchant for fairies or unicorns, or even mentioned them in her songs - that was Sandy Denny ("I've always kept a unicorn and I never sing out of tune"). :lol:

Perhaps it's best that you and he never spoke. He might have eaten your liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. :laugh:

Actually, I'm betting he would have. :laugh:

Those were the days....

Uh oh, don't get Stevie fans turned onto Sandy Denny, they'll never look at Ms. Nicks the Welsh Witch the same way next to a genuine guitar playing short ash-blonde folk-rocker... (actually Sandy Denny has fans about as devoted as any here and I don't understand them either)

Didn't some rock press writers in the 1970s periodically compare Christine to Sandy Denny?