I'm not sure this fits in WWE alone, even though it's a lot to do with that, so I'll post it in here. This is a revised version of something I put on my Twitter earlier, with maybe some other stuff added in. I've had a few days to mull it over, not posting at all, and it's something I need to do before I feel right enough to go back into regular routine on here.
Those who follow my posting patterns on here can probably assume that I'm easy to please, to a fault. That's true... I find that I'm easily satisfied as a wrestling fan, because it's like supporting a sporting team. Sometimes they'll win and I'll be happy, sometimes they'll lose and I'll be disappointed, but rarely do I feel like I've wasted my time watching a show, because I'm not using that time for much anyway.
As such, I find that I get pretty overwhelmed, even as long as I've been here, when I get faced with a wall of anger on a regular basis. I'm like "It's NEVER like this for me, yet some of you can get like this multiple times a week?". I hear you ask "Why do you let this affect you then?"... Because it's no fun trying to talk to angry people, and I do worry that it may someday blow up into a "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" situation. It gets frustrating.
So, it's why I find myself often going on the offensive as a defensive measure. Do unto others before they do unto you, as Steve Austin would say. At the best of times, this probably isn't the right way to approach things on a message board. After the week I've had in my personal life away here... It DEFINITELY isn't the right way to approach things on a message board.
I won't go into too much detail about the personal life stuff here other than it's a family member in a serious health crisis, but being confronted with that there, and then coming back onto here, ostensibly my escape from real life, right in the middle of the controversy regarding the Moolah Battle Royal... I just had no f***s to give. It wasn't really anything I hadn't said at times before ("Now you'll protest to Snickers about the Reigns push"), but I realised at that moment that, in trying so hard over the last decade plus not to become one of those people that is just always complaining about WWE, I'd become one of those other people that just complains about the complaining, and it had become all I was doing here. Other posters had picked up on it. Posters I'm closer to outside of here have told me as such today when I asked them. Most importantly, other moderators were telling to me to stop, and it wasn't for the first time either, so this is something that has been building over months, even years.
So for being needlessly judgmental and unreasonable in several instances over the last however long it's been, I'm sorry. I've always tried to use my "positivity" as a way of just not dumping on things all the time, like what tends to happen when WWE gets in a rut, but I've been going about that the wrong way. I don't think I can change my opinions about things, but I think I can try and show more restraint and not lash out at other posters anymore.
TL;DR: I've been a proper dickhead about things here, and I want to try and set things right. We cool?