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Originally Posted by pylon

I've said it many times, and I'll say it again.

I've probably met more posters from this site than any other user. Around 100-120 people over the last 16-17 years have become great clients from back when I was just a sales guy on the floor looking for a few leads, and many became repeat ones to this day.

Legendary posters that went silent. Casual posters that went pretty much unknown. Lurkers. I became a client of many of them as well. I will always appreciate CalgaryPuck for allowing those opportunities to exist.

However, almost every single one that has become a return client, 95% of them gave up on this site because it turned into a Hyper Socialist Liberal echo chamber. Most of them were tired of being ridiculed, talked down to and bullied for having a Conservative View. In a Conservative Province, for a team with a majority Conservative fan base... Gondek getting boo'd off the ice was pretty much all you needed to see there. The opinions on this site reflect a fringe left element which doesn't align with the typical client of the team this site was originally based upon, this Province, or the majority of Albertans you'd talk to in the street. So almost all have stopped posting, and they left.

I'll paraphrase what one of these past members recently said "Unless you have your Hasan Piker T-shirt, your Young Turks Patreon membership, and your Purple Nenshi covid mask on full display the Socialist CPCP army will eat you alive."

I laughed at how ridiculous it sounded, and how true it actually is. But it's sad a handful of posters have had this effect and ruined a once awesome place to shoot the sh1t.

I know my opinions aren't always agreed with here, but even when I have come in to try and give useful advice, in my field of expertise, with no political opinion whatsoever, the Socialist CPCP SJW army just can't avoid taking shots at you.

I am a free speech absolutist, so I'm OK with it. I would rather live with that that any sort of censorship. However, the dwindling of this site, and what I am assuming eventual downfall of it, can be pinned on about 10-15 terminally online posters in the off topic with raging cases of "Smartest person in the room syndrome." that have run off some really great people with their utter lack of civility.

It's an uncomfortable truth, but true.

You're a free speech absolutist but have also thrown a tantrum, "quit the site" and then come back, several times.

As a grown ass man.

You're a lot more robust in your mind than you actually are my dude. Enough with this act. Stop pretending you're some freedom fighter.