Just the facts:

RETICENT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

9 hours ago, drpaladin said:

We have far too many reticent members at GA.

@drpaladin @Myr

They are the silent majority of GA.

On our opening page we list/boast of our 13,263 members.

If not for the 1,577 authors here, there would be no Gay Authors! (Thanks Myr)

But, without the 11,686 other members of GA. This would not be the home/family that we have today. I often see members log in, some of whom have not visited the site in over ten plus years. Who have not made even one post or made a comment. Why, because GA has become a home, one can always come back to.

COME BACK TO Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

I sincerely hope our 'Bean Counters' stay away form this one. Why, because for many of us the real world is no longer a happy/safe place or home.

I will be a member here for the remaining time left to me, unless some future site revision/update decides that I am glitch and have to go.

sandrewn

12 hours ago, Bill W said:

Reticent comes from Latin reticent- ‘remaining silent’, from the verb reticere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + tacere ‘be silent’.  

The adjective reticent first appeared in 1825 in a description of someone as “quiet, retired, and reticent in the writing of J. Quincy.” By 1875, however, as Merriam-Webster explains, “instead of just describing those who are reluctant to speak, it was being used to describe those who are just plain reluctant.”

Being reticent can also be a symptom of introversion.

The Latin tacere is also the base for our word tacid, which like so many words trailed through French and then into 17th Century English.