I know exactly how you feel Mark, I went through all the same BS back in the MTM2 days and apparently some people still can't get over themselves from back then when we were all just ignorant kids who didn't know what the hell we were doing, it's also one of the main reasons before all the stuff with my old computer and internet I wasn't hanging around SM or ROR in general. Sometimes we don't think before we speak (or type in most of these cases)...I don't care who you are and what you say but we're all guilty of doing this more then any of us will admit it. We just need to realize that for some a peaceful place with games can be an escape from something eating away at us. One of the reasons I usually talk to the same people on AIM, Skype, Facebook, etc is because I've known them long enough to when when their just screwing around and serious....I don't know everyone else on here that well but I always found it rather low when if something happened in an event or I wrote something stupid in a chat pretty much everyone was against me (some of you still are) when I probably can't even remember all of your names.
I think I've said enough and I'm sure some (or several) will continue giving me crap over the past which is fine because I honestly stopped caring what people say about me or try to bring my mood down to make themselves better a long time ago. Your true friend and in some cases family are who you surround yourself with, not who you're related to through blood or marriage. Last thing I can think to add is think before you speak, you never know who or how you might help someone.