Well, I suppose that the cat's out of the bag now, isn't it? Seeing as I now have nothing to hide, I guess that I'll take the opportunity to provide my first, last and only in-thread opinion on the matter:
Yes, I clop. Unashamedly so, in fact; I even wrote a TwiDash clopfic not too long ago, and am currently planning a Braeburn X Soarin' clopfic of a similarly explicit nature. I've managed to convince a few people that there isn't "something wrong with them" if they clop, and am quite proud of that achievement. I can't honestly say, however, that I can be bothered to go into detailed explanation over it again, and am not willing to hang out my dirty sheets (to turn a phrase) in this thread (because AUP, and some people probably don't want to read into sexual psychology while skimming through a pony thread).
In addition to that, I fail to see why it should matter to anybody other than those with an active interest in it; I don't affect anyone else by doing it, and I don't discuss it with people who clearly aren't interested or are disgusted by it - and in return, I'd prefer it if you'd abstain from sharing your disgust and insults with me, as I myself am distinctly uninterested in hearing them. Love and tolerate, and all that.
Of course, this post would have been entirely unnecessary if a certain CoffeeGrunt hadn't publicly outed me for the entire of GTP to see; and I can't say that I particularly appreciate you broadcasting my private masturbatory habits for giggles. Because of the fact that I'm nice and mature enough to look past your blatant ignorance and attention-seeking, I'll tolerate you being a mod in the chatroom until you do something moronic again - so don't. You had no right to say what you did, and if anything, you owe me an apology for it - though I hardly expect one.
MSTER, I found your comment that cloppers are "mentally ill and need to get some help ASAP" to be ill-informed, tasteless, tactless, and about as ignorant it gets; before you make such a broadly sweeping and wildly inaccurate generalisation of an insult towards a massive sector of the fandom that this thread discusses, consider the fact that certain individuals who fall under said generalisations probably regularly read the thread, and will probably be offended by you effectively calling them all "mentally ill". Try to actually put some thought into your posts before you type them next time you think about ripping on a large percentage of the people who may or may not be reading them. I suggest re-reading the third paragraph of this post until that fact sinks in. I'll also not be revoking your mod status in the chatroom at the moment, if only because I knew that you probably hadn't quite engaged your brain when you wrote what you did - whereas, Coffee really should have known better.
I'm glad that I now know where we stand on the matter. But take note of the following: of everyone who reads and posts in this thread, I am not the only one who clops.
Have fun processing the implications of that.
- eX