I certainly have made mistakes during my time on the forum. I can say however that my North Star has always been what I believed to be right at the time.
Good to see you admit that, even with the qualification tacked onto the end of it.
Honestly, it's hard to believe that you and I joined the forum less than a year apart, because to me it seems like you've been a member for way,
wa-ay longer than I have. That could be because you were involved in some drama when I was a lurker in 2014 (though I'm not sure about that), or it could just be warped perception that happens after a decade of seeing someone's posts.
Sadly, many seem to have actually left the forum, despite that they say that no one really leaves. BadBear, tomatocage, shorena, Blazr, escrow.ms, DarkStar, monbux, redsn0w, devthedev, Lauda, Dogedigital, blazed, MadZ, Muhammed Zakir, marcotheminer, xetsr, dogie, Vod seems to have left, and somewhat recently returned. There are others I have forgotten. If you have left, and happen to read this, maybe you can stop by to say hello, lol.
Wow, there are some names in that list I haven't thought of in a very long time, and I didn't realize DarkStar_ had left the forum, so that's something I just learned. A lot of those members had strong presences here and established reputations, and I think they also added to the spiciness bitcointalk used to have some years ago, which for the most part is gone. I always wonder what's happened to a member who's disappeared unexpectedly (like TMAN and Spoetnik and a few others I can't recall off the top of my head), and that was the case with you as well. I think I asked the question offhandedly in a post not too long ago, so at least now I know.
By the way, if you wanted replies you probably shouldn't have made this thread self-moderated. Just saying.