Great question, Ebbie. Wherever one goes, one finds friends and the opposite, whose impressions will obviously differ. What makes life interesting, I suppose.

Why, even take Mudcat, where one forms relationships of so many different sorts with other posters. Just as an example, Owen Woodson wrote only yesterday

"The best thing to do with MtheGM is to ignore him. The man is incapable of saying anything beyond stringing together a load of unjustified and unjustifiable petty insults."

which compare, from a couple of years ago, with

"From: Murray MacLeod - 25 Dec 09 - 02:52 - MtheGM, your posts on here (and on other threads) are shining beacons of dispassionate reasoning and fact in the midst of a sea of (mostly) fuzzy waffle.
Long may you contiunue to post on Mudcat."

I cite these, here on this thread, not contentiously, but simply to illustrate the point as to the differing impressions one makes on different people.

Good luck in this quest, Ebbie.

~Michael~