I agree.
Did you notice how brave they suddenly became once they believed we couldn't comment back to them? Out of nowhere they were crying towards us about the we treated them.
Reminded me of a little dog that's really tough when they're barking at something from inside the house. When you let them out in the open, they start hiding behind you to make sure that mean ole thing they were barking at won't get them. The primitives barked when they felt safe. Now.... not so much.
I've noticed the absence of announcements of conservativecave being back on Skins's island and DU Jr. It may've been, but I've been concentrating on rounding up the stragglers who got lost elsewhere on the internet, and haven't noticed. It's been like pulling people off lifeboats onto solid land.
Anyway. What did the primitives gain from this downage?
(a) it gave those dealing with the hard-core technical stuff of conservativecave an opportunity to repair and replace things that had naturally sort of eroded (as they do on all web-sites), making the site physically solider and stronger than it had been.
(b) it gave many members the chance to interact with others on other message-boards, speading our message and gaining new members.
(c) it got franksolich off his rear end to sift through and better organize select material about select primitives. One might recall it took the friends of the big guy in Omaha more than a month to put together his site two years ago; with the material being better organized now, it'd take just a couple of days.
Flippy Doo had an excellent analogy--if you see this, Flippy, please post it here--about how it's better to have an opponent out in the open where one can see what he's doing, rather than behind a closed door somewhere.
I think the primitives who celebrated our submergence will change their minds, wishing we'd been out in the open all the time.