That's all well and good but...
when all is said and done, it is still not fun to look at the moment where something that you cared about first cracked.
The flamewar that I was referring to (which I think that Greg likewise meant) was the first time that we argued Creationism vs Evolution. The main thread that started it was between Nick Petreley and myself. When Nick left the community several years later it was after a series of seriously fucked up arguments, mostly about Creationism vs Evolution. (It seems likely to me that Nick was partly using this to vent his frustration over his disaster of a divorce which was going on at the time.)
In case you don't know, the thread that bound most of us to IWE in the first place was..Nick Petreley. His loss is therefore particularly keenly felt.
Furthermore most of the people that we care about here (both past and present) were part of that flamewar in some way, shape or form. We know our differences, I have no real desire to obsess on them.
Regards,
Ben
