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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1050997" data-attributes="member: 158">I do want to second Darkness' opinion here (not like he needs it, but sometimes it seems to take two or more posts from moderators before some people see them).ENWorld is a community, with only a few specific rules laid out. None of those rules have been broken in this thread. Therefore, if it is a topic of no interest, and it has not broken any of the rules (and we keep track of this thread like all the others), then there is no compelling reason to read it (just like I used to ignore the "Sultans of Smack" threads before I became a mod). It brings some people interest, and they aren't me, so I leave 'em be.Ryan has been a member of ENWorld for a long, long time, and as such, people get to know him, and others, on these boards. This was never highlighted better for me than at Gencon; scores of people meeting, greeting, shaking hands, having NEVER seen each other face-to-face, yet chatting up topics as if they were friends since Kindergarten. In fact, until Ryan was diagnosed and had to cancel his trip, one of my highlights was going to be meeting him; he's an awesome person and a fantastic gamer (from the one time I gamed with him online), and I'm sorry he didn't make the trip.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />It's the power of that community that kept it going when Eric had to close his doors, and Russ picked up suit. It's the power of that community that spawned a whole second forum community (now with 75% more nuts!) and it's what makes me love it so much. Established members leave, new ones come in - just like any other community, it keeps adding and changing, and I support it.I apologize for the diversionary soapbox; carry on with the cyber-hugs! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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