I always assumed that something I picked up from Free Stuff was in a sense endorsed by R'osity, and if I picked up something through a post link I was taking my chances. As a grownup, I was Ok with that, but grownups haven't been welcome here for quite a while. The nice ones are tolerated, but they make the mouthbreathers uncomfortable.

If I can't find the occasional outside link in the forums, I will have even less incentive to visit them, and my R'osity traffic has already dropped pretty radically. Giving people less reason to come in has not been a great commercial strategy for any other business I know of, but innovation is R'osity's middle name.

It's a bit of a chuckle, seeing Acadia join us paranoid naysayers, however tentatively, after her stint as a mini-PTB.  But hey, she's just one of us now, so don't assume she knows more than we do. Would the moderators dissemble? Don't be silly. It's all for our own good. Really. Hold still; you'll like it. You know you will.

For the newerbe: The September reference is one of those "old hand" gags. R'osity has a reputation for doing something incredibly self-destructive each year in September, predictable as clockwork. Who knows? Maybe this year we'll get two rounds.

M