I'm with Dravyk on this one. "Interesting thread...have no idea what to add."
Since the connotation of "hired gun" is unpleasant, no, I must definitely would not like to be referred to that way. It's also silly. Who the hell would hire *me* to play "hired gun"? (I may be being to literal here.)
I post a lot because I like to. I've always posted a lot. Anybody who's memory goes back as far as 1997 can attest to that. I'm a writer, for heaven's sake. That's what posting is. Writing. My mod status is basically "thanks for being such a verbose person."
(Nick might have said "damned big mouth," but he didn't. I couldn't have argued with him if he had, though.)
I didn't realize that those three little letters compelled me to take a stand on the "direction" of anything. I'm glad, because I would have said "uh...thanks...no, I don't do 'directions.'"
It's always been my own personal opinion, based on the obvious, that a board finds it's own direction. OK...I have to stop that here. What the hell *is* a "direction," anyway? It sounds suspiciously like "we all have to be of the same headset and post the same way," which is something I'm thorougly against. I'm nice because I'm actually nice. It's not a board persona. I named the carrot smilie "Kirby" because of the alliteration involved, "Kirby" is my brother's childhood nickname, and I'm just quirky like that. People may find it annoying or childish or whatever...but like I give a flying fuck. (With me, being "nice" is a choice, not a sign of weakness. Nobody so far has elected to piss with me about it, but if someone had, it wouldn't have changed a damned thing. I'm not going to withdraw into a shell and sulk over it. I can piss with the best of them, however, the thrill of that pretty much sailed in the 90's.)
So...to end this, a dance.
