OK. I've given up on my multiple-facts argument so I'll try to answer your question, since you asked me so nicely. And then I'll hopefully be done with this...
Did E or X or CH try to get you to be part of a "gang"? Did X PM you with pressure to adopt her position as part of her gang? Did anyone else?
CH never made any effort to enlist me (unless of course you want to count the incessant flattery I was objecting to yesterday <g>). I told CH a very long time ago that I wanted nothing to do with him and he hasn't addressed me by PM since. So there's nothing to report beyond what you've seen posted.
I was PM'd by a member of the posse just before the start of SMBR enlisting me in an effort to group shun CH on this thread. I reported that I had already been shunning him for some time so, for me, the action was moot. The next thing I knew, the shunning effort was superceded by the creation of a new thread for Poet. I wasn't consulted on it. I did get a couple of messages when I was slow to start posting there wondering where I was.
Subsequently I received PM's from a couple of posse members, quite a number of them, trying to persuade me to adopt the party line. I would not characterize them as invitations to join a gang, merely to harmonize my POV with theirs. I did not find them unduly coercive and I was not distressed by them. I found the exchanges useful and interesting. And frustrating.
X is the only person on this thread with whom I PM more often than rarely. After seeing your question this morning, I got thinking about that while doing laps at the pool. X and I PM mostly about what's going on in her life and mine, mostly hers because there's a lot more going on there. [FWIW, if you were aware of her activities, you would feel really foolish over your 24/7 tack.] What I realized somewhere during my laps was that she used to post that kind of stuff publicly but doesn't anymore. So I have to get the news by PM.
X and I have discussed this issue by PM. We share our reactions to things. I think one reason that she and I get along is that we're both independent and neither of us tries to tell the other what to do. She has never suggested any tack or position to me. I admit that I've lobbied her several times, most recently the situation that was mentioned on the thread yesterday where I got her to not respond to Poet's drop-bys this last go-round in an effort to keep the good discussions from getting sidetracked. She lasted longer than I expected, but eventually fell off the wagon.
That's all there is, best I recall. |
