Aw sorry I'm not sure how I missed this thread! (Apologies - I tend to read the doll news far more thoroughly than up here!)
I'm very glad you decided to give the hobby a second chance, and that it was this place that encouraged you back! Everyone around here is still lovely - and gods know they've put up with me for several years now without too much complaint!
(I too have had my fairshare of dolls turn up on those sites - and yeah it's a stomach falling through the floor moment isn't it? But I very quickly decided that the hobby was for Me, and be damned with everyone else's opinions of my guys (and my living situation - which was by extension the thing being mocked alongside my dire photography - UK student accomodation is often smaller than our prisoner accomodation to give you some idea of why I was targeted.)