I've been here for a whole 10 years since yesterday, so naturally I've got a couple of things I need to get off my chest, here goes
So I remember that a while back (when I was a stupid noob) that there was a rumour that TFP was, uh, courting children (to put it in a much more suitable term that doesn't use the dreadful word used to define a dreadful person).
It was an entirely false rumour, but I was a gullible fuck who took that rumour as automatic truth.
From a short conversation on the Wiki between us two, he told me to stop spreading rumours, and i said that I wasn't spreading rumours.
I don't exactly know whether I was telling the truth or not when I said that I hadn't spread them, I'm partial to leaning towards me NOT telling the truth (considering that I've had a stupidly sordid past with telling the truth or lies), and I don't think that I really understood just how awful those allegations were, and that me believing them was absolutely horrendous.
Even the idea that I might have spread them around was just so disgusting and I really hope I didn't do that.
The point is that it doesn't matter if I spread them around, since we all know that it wasn't true and that TFP is legitimately a fantastic person, the point is that I believed them, I misplaced my trust and utterly let him down, and to that extent the entire community.
I literally saw the convo just yesterday and remembered why he sent that message.
It may not mean much anymore since it was so long ago, but to TFP: I am so dreadfully sorry that I believed those rumours, and possibly even spread them back then.
It's a mistake that shouldn't have happened, and a mistake that I hope I have never made, or make again.