That's the best sentence I've read the last days, for it exactly mirrors my opinion.
I haven't made so much campaigning this year. In the primaries the reason were my exams, but in this General Election it's another one. I'm very disappointed how the campaigns went.
The primaries were fun. I loved reading through all the party topics and even responded in each of them to announce my enjoyment about specific comix. But with the General Election beginning all this soon faded away. And at this point I have to tell a name: In my opinion, especially Metal Man is the source of all this.
I'm sorry Metal Man. I like you as a person and a user in this forums. But the way you decided to run your campaign just makes me sick. Really, I could puke each time I read your recent comix.
Right from the beginning of the General Election he started to bash on other candidates. Some weeks later he tries to prevaricate all by saying "Everything the others can do is attacking Metal Man". Not mentioning that in fact he has started everything.
Metal Man says that all the others are only copying from him, of course again not mentioning that he's not a piece better. For example, ss soon as Laika announced to reactivate Ask Dr Donez, he did the same. I could tell you even more examples, even copies from Yoshi's campaign.
He seems to be so proud of having been on the chat event, unlike many others. Well, I wouldn't give so much on this fact, considering that half of the other people announced weeks before they wouldn't have time on that date and kindly ask to move it.
And then the thing with the hotlinks. Are you really in need of changing the pictures on your server just because somebody uses it in his forum quotes? Hell, that's really dirty politics and the poorest thing you could ever do, or as Mush Man called it: Devious. As if that would have been necessary...
When Sean pronounced a mudslinging-free week, Metal Man showed himself indignant that "it was eagerly smashed to bits by some other candidates". Considering that Metal Man himself was one of the most important reasons for fighting against mudslinging, I wouldn't shoot my mouth off if I were him.
The best prove for this were the last few days. As soon as Metal Man is away for six days, everything here runs as perfect as it should be, making it a delight to read through the messages.
We should never forget, that all this Election here is for fun! But the things Metal Man did in the General Election, had nothing to do with fun.
Things were different in the primaries: The campaigns were nice, the comix actually were funny with a lot of jokes inside them. Even you, Metal Man, could do it this way, I liked your comix, and it was worth it: With this way of campaigning you won the primaries against the clearly favorite Fred. Why did you have to change it? Very sad...
I know you all wanted to see more comix from me, expecting me to be as active as in 2004. In fact, I also wanted it, and I also had (or have) a lot of ideas for this election. But everytime I read the newest messages in this topic, I lost interest in responding at once, and so I ended up in doing nothing.
I don't expect you to understand this. But if an election that should be for fun goes the way it did this year, I'm really not keen on participating - and in fact am proud of not being part of it (except for the one comic).
How true...