All we are saying, is give tweeps a chance...

OK, so here goes. First straight, no satire post from yours truly.

Lemme start by saying I HATE rude tweeps. I'd be the first person to come to someone's rescue if a rude tweep attacked, and I've done so in the past. My track record should show that.

Now I'll level with you. I don't know what to think of SelinaCat2010 or CaptainStarwind.

In my opinion, while they have said things in the public tweetfeed that have angered the good people of the twitterverse, I don't know how to tweet them. I blocked SelinaCat last night for her continued harrassment of Becky, but I couldn't help but wonder whether or not we could have talked her down and turned her into a decent tweep.

I don't expect any of you to agree with me, but I do ask that you see where I'm coming from. I signed onto twitter initially as Aria's counterpart, with the warning that by doing so, I would be hounded by people who wanted us gone. She had been told to leave the twitterverse her first week there. I was banned from twitter about three weeks into the game, not to mention some of the hate dm's and tweets I'd get from these people under different accts.

Do I follow the people who attacked us? NO. Would I try and make them leave twitter, or the SW twitterverse? No, because even though I really hated what they did to me and my friend, I realize now that if I tried that and succeeded, I'd be doing the very same thing they did to me.

These remarks were made to Aria and I when we were new tweeps. SelinaCat2010 and CaptainStarwind seem like newbies too.

Honestly, I think SelinaCat is absolutely crazy, and why she can't see that the "Mean Girls" division in the verse was established eons before she tweeted us is beyond me. She'll never sync up with us merely because she cyberstalks folks like Barb, Kit, and Sarah to find out when they're tweeting and goes berserk. You have to approach the verse with some sense of maturity.

As for Captain Starwind, looking back through his tweets, I think he merely lashed out in a poor attempt to try and save face. I can't tell if he has the potential to be a good member of the verse or not yet. It's too early in the game. I don't like the comments he's made, and I don't like that he's offended my friend Kit, but I also know that we're all human, we make mistakes, and how difficult it is to start tweeting the verse for the first time. I doubt if many of you remember me 30,000 tweets ago when I first came here, but I made several. I still do...It's a wonder you put up with me.

I think we're in a bit of a funk right now. We've had so many haters come at us, that we've been forced to put up our shields. It's hard to make friends, be it in real life or over the verse. The verse was made as a refuge for tweeps...a place where everyone belonged, no matter how canon or uncanon they were. I'd hate for other RPers to find us unaccepting, because then the beauty of our verse is lost on them, and we, in turn, get less people to interact with.

Some of the new members are tweeters that I've met as I've increased my follower numbers...people who have tweeted me and joined our verse because they had a desire to meet each of you as well. I hope you'll extend them a welcome as you did me.

Well, there you have it. A full thesis from the guy who normally keeps quiet. I hope I haven't offended anyone by my sermon, but I consider you all my friends, so I chose to speak freely.

MTFBWY, even if you're part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor,

Darth Vader