i don't think steve was threatening you, john, just giving a 'compare and contrast' example.
i understand that this is jon's site and he can do whatever he wants with it, and that steve is cool with the overruling in this case. and i guess retiring and unretiring multiple times is not that big a deal- many people around here have done so and maybe it helps you get a fresh perspective on things. but my point (and opinion) is that jon's tendency to be erratic does not help the site nor the scene, and i'm talking specifically about having a civil relationship with someone one moment and then the next moment shooting them down out of the blue. it's strange and puzzling to me.
jon, how did you and i go from being civil and friendly for years to you suddenly raking me over the coals a month or two ago? like i said, i saw the same thing happen between you and pacdude, you and kinsey, you and john, and not too long ago you were blasting pete for some unknown reason.
it would be one thing if you said "i think such-and-such decision you made sucks for such-and-such reason", but in every one of these cases you choose to barely mention the issue that upset you and instead go right for the jugular. sometimes you come over to VPF to make these rants, and sometimes you make them here. and it's not crazy to have a good rant on someone, but when i do it i usually apologise afterwards, own up to being an ass, and we move on. i learned that as a kid and it still seems to work, decades later.
instead, in the VP scene, all these kinds of arguments seem to turn into eternal feuds. i've never really understood how people can hold these grudges so long. so i guess i'll take this opportunity to apologise for offending you somehow, jon, and maybe we can go back to being civil again, but next time i'd appreciate you trying to argue the issue with me and not making things so personal.