It's all my fault.

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Good luck, Gator. While wishing you the best, I think the board will be better without you.

Thy, I respect your input and see you as a very valued member of this site.  However, I disagree with your post.  If for no other reason, this site needs varied and sometimes opposing positions to keep it honest.  If the goal of some is to bully those who strongly disagree with a opposing view so they leave we are left with only one opinion.  That to me is dangerous.  I do not think Gator is a negative in fact I think he is a positive.  Gator, I will give a comment that I personally do not think represents you as a "pebble" all the time but in this case yes.   I once heard the managing partner a multimillion dollar company (just prior to a multimillion dollar sale of the company ) refer to the #3 partner as being "a pebble in my shoe".  When the #3 partner said "wow, that is not a overwhelming endorsement" the managing partner said "actually it is".  When questioned further the managing partner said "sometimes the pebble is needed to tell you something is wrong".  The pebble assisted in facilitating a sake that made all the partners a lot of money.  There are CFOs on this board as well as other executives.  The CFOs job is often to tell the CEO nice idea but you are off base.  They are sometimes a "pebble".  Who here would design a board of directors with all having the exact mindset, not me.  Gator, I hope you reconsider and stay.  I for one will find SHU losing its alanine if all those who think one way push/bully those of different opinions off the site.  If those who desired to push Gator off succeed you have done no one here a true service.

Neither I nor anyone else that I know of had a "goal" to "bully" Gator for "strongly disagreeing with an opposing view".  I think I have thoroughly explained my criticisms, which I assume you agree I have a right to strongly express as well, if you care to read them, and they were not personal attacks.  Objectively expressing opposing views, and supporting them, is very different from engaging in a relentless distorted repetitive campaign against management, with no possible constructive purpose, about what has happened in the last two and a half years, admittedly to vent frustrations about  the stock, without even properly considering and responding to rational disagreements opposing his "view", wasting the time of others as well and potentially creating unjustified negative uncertainty about the Company and stock that could hurt us all.  I have not accused him of being short, but that is what shorts did to this Company for years, with little difference in results.  I think Gator made some worthy contributions, and my preference was for him to change his approach and put behind what is irrelevant about the past and engage in objective constructive fact finding, analysis, and debate, rather than leave; but that is his choice, and I agree probably best without some change.