You have incorrectly stated my position.

I responded in the goodbye thread after I felt singled out and purposefully voted down. I responded because several people were privately telling me that I was far from the first person this had happened to. In that post I made that as clear as I knew how to. I knew when I posted that that it would be controversial. In fact my first action after submitting was to go to the chatterbox and type:

/me just made a sad situation worse, hopefully for some long-term bene
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As for neshura, I indeed had a conversation with her. One thing she thought would be good would be for me to show up on IRC. I mentioned firewall issues. I wound up that conversation with saying that I needed some time to reply to her post since my reply would answer a number of things she was asking. My reply is at RE (4): Goodbye! (regarding the shadow conspiracy). I have not heard back from her since posting that, but I expect to and I look forward to continuing that discussion either in public or in private and getting her feedback.

Incidentally one question has to be whether I am lying about what happened. Well I have said that I will not name names, so it comes down to a question of how much personal integrity I have. Of course I do not have enough history here to answer that. OTOH anyone who wants can follow the link to IWETHEY where I have a substantial accumulated history and spend as long as you want looking at things that BTilly has said there. Heck, you could even post there to get opinions on my honesty!

I am confident that the reports you will get should lay in a deep, dark grave any doubt that I would make something like this up. Now the people who gave me their take on the situation may have been mistaken either on their details or the correct interpretations of past events. I am in a worse position than most to decide that. But I am not making stuff up. Really.