Not offended in the least. So I hope that you, in turn won't take offense when I tell you that your assessment is only partially correct. The site HAS changed A LOT.
However,
It was a combination of both. Hard to be so congenial when every single time you post, regardless of the content, you're called a "dirty crazy whore that should die before her children ever saw her again.".... dontchathink?
Hell there were peeps (and I know you know this) that would try to be "my pretend e-friends" on elite while talking THE MOST VICIOUS SMACK about me on all the elitefitnesswannabe sites just so they could "gain my confidence" and hope that I would divulge some sort of non-existant seemly details about my personal life so they could throw it back at me out in public.
FAIL...
'cause those details just didn't exist.
Then funny, I *got married* to what *seems to be a notsobad dude* and *all of the sudden* I gained somekinda validity. (I found this to be most humorous.)
Come on DB... you posted some REALLY REALLY hurtful shit to my e-face on elite back in the day. Tell me honestly that the stuff you posted behind my e-back wasn't 100 times worse?
Look, if I had believed only A TENTH of the vile hatred that was spewed about me all over the web, I woulda hated me too. But anyone who has HALF a functioning brain can see that "somethin just ain't right" in the world. Doesn't exhonerate me by a longshot. But surely it is causing pause to those that haven't lived through similar situations.