Why do so many younger members quickly leave SF?

dseag2 said:
I reached out to MMinSocal in a PM. She is 56. She responded that she joined the forum to learn more about tips on impending retirement and left due to comments/responses in some of the threads.
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Maybe she should have asked more questions, not sit back and let the tips come her way and not read threads too much for her? Also, and I hope I don't get into trouble for this----there has been a 20% drop in daily members showing up since our firebrand, @Irwin, left. A coincidence or a sign people enjoyed Irwin and the interest he brought to the forum? The latter, I am convinced of that. Not criticizing but I miss Irwin & @oldiebut goody or whatever his name was. And so do, apparently, 20%, of our members.
 

I enjoy people that stir the pot a bit, by the topics they bring up. I also like someone that can get a laugh out of me.
 

@dseag2 That was very kind of you to reach out to the former member.

@Pepper I think sometimes people may be hesitant to start topics, especially if they are new. They don't have to be but might be. As far as the members leaving, I didn't know about that. I like Irwin. Do you know what's up with that?
 
Jules said:
@Silent Rose left also. She explained her reasons in her Diary.
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Thank you, Jules. This was her quote:

"Like I had stated in previous posts here and elsewhere throughout the site, I have been taking my days here on the site as a day to day trial basis.

I have never been involved in anything like this before and I am not such a social person and what I am doing here is really out of my norm. I am somewhat uncomfortable with all of this even though the way of communicating is very easy for me with text. I joined this site mostly as it stated there was no political agenda and I suppose that is monitored in some way, but honestly it is in many ways still shown through in many of the strongly opinionated posts here and it is obvious that many people on here just want to start trouble with it and I from day one stated I was neither a person that was opinionated for or against any of that tension type of topics. Maybe it is because I have been isolated from most of the real world a lot of my life and I am very naive and thin skinned and that is my problem, but my decision is this sort of thing is not for me.

I have asked @Matrix to either disable my account or ban it and whether he does that, I don't know."

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with her. I enjoy this forum. But it is perception that counts, after all.
 
For some, disagreeing or stating an opinion one doesn't agree with constitutes "starting trouble."
She did consider the likelihood that she was isolated from the real world, naive & thin skinned, however. That's more than most people are able to acknowledge.
 

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