You guys humble me. Thank you for the kind words. Really. I did not know I had such effect.

The truth is: it's about you guys, not me.

YOU (all) decided to try to rise above the petty bickering and insults, and finger-pointing that usually goes on in the so-called "spirited internet discussions". I merely tried to help you achieve that. That we've, together, been even a little successful is because YOU made the effort.

Thank you for that, from the bottom of my deep, dark, black heart. It's YOUR cooperation, and YOUR support that made any progress we've made, possible. And it's why I've kept coming back to this org place, and this backroom den of iniquity () for almost a decade.

YOU (yes, I mean you Mister backroom reader-poster who is reading this post right now) make a difference. YOU can and will change things for the better. Make more light, less heat; more signal, less static. YOU, mostly young fellas, in 20 years, will lead the world, from your own little corner of it. Get ready. (And throw a bone to we older guys once in awhile; we've not done a great job of advancing human civilization, but we've kept the boat afloat).

I've retired from Moderating (because I need more freetime to resume my uni education, after a 25-year break) but you lot will still be cursed by my hanging around. Because I can't leave the place, anymore than you can. We don't solve many problems here, but By Jimminy, we certainly examine them from every conceivable point-of-view - so I learn something here every day, and little lights dawn in my lizard-brain, every day, and things I hadn't thought of reveal themselves here, every day.

Don't stop firing, Lads. I won't either.