So you are completely bypassing the issue because it's easier to pick up on my comments that I despise the bias and corupted methods of moderation on RFUK? Why haven't you stated your opinon... I thought you would be one with an interest in something like this. Or is it a case of keeping quiet to keep in with your friends and not upset anyone?
I am completely bypassing the issue because it had already degenerated into a mud-flinging insult fest before I'd even seen it, so I had no interest in joining in. Many thousands of other people chose not to respond to that thread either, but somehow I doubt we were all keeping in with friends or choosing not to upset anyone - I imagine most of them, like me, just didn't have anything constructive to add on either side. Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes there are much more mundane explanations.
As I said, I replied because I was annoyed at the entire forum being written off because of a couple of troublemakers. I don't mind people arguing on forums, if that's what makes them happy then go for it - but I am a human being, with many emotions and EVERY right to say what I feel without being shot down for it, so presumably I also have EVERY right to not talk about subjects I don't want to get involved in without being shot down for that too.
I remember you told me you were afraid to get too close to me because of what other people thought of me. Thats when I decided you were not a friend of mine Toyah.
Disappointing you'd choose to misquote a comment from a conversation I had while you were in my home many months before we "fell out", removing all the surrounding context, presumably (from the context and your chosen wording) in an effort to make me look bad. I will be happy to post as much as I can remember of the entire conversation and my reasons for approaching the subject if you insist, though perhaps elsewhere would be more appropriate. I have chosen not to as I'd prefer not to be accused "slagging you off" - I can't see the point in it, and frankly I don't think it's necessary.
RFUK has many fabulous members, but as a community it is all too often generalised and classed as unruly. It's running wild because the moderation team are picked only if they are liked within the community. You simply cannot deny that, you MUST have seen bias behaviour. Look at Jays post for instance, he went in guns blazing (and had every right to do so) and his post was deleted. I wonder why, because perhaps Ant got upset and Jay deleted it? I wonder...
I didn't see Jay's post - but all forums have moderators chosen if they are liked within a community, as people who are disliked and command no respect are not good choices as moderators. I remember the moderators being chosen here - definitely only picked as they are liked within the community, but also excellent mods, as are the majority of the RFUK mods.
I have seen behaviour that looks biased from mods on RFUK, sure - I've also seen behaviour that looks biased from moderators on here as well. That's because moderators are humans, with their own individual bias, and I, as the reader, am a human who views their actions through my own personal bias. I wouldn't run over to RFUK and start calling the moderation over here "corrupt" if I didn't like it.
I for one would like to leave the peoples petty arguments out of this (however hard that may be) and concentrate on the issue.
Nothing is wrong with being direct, not everything needs to be sugar-coated ... but then again your first post on the issue on RFUK said " It is because you are Anthony, friend of people in "high places" that nobody else has commented on this pretty crappy setup?". If that isn't delving straight into people's petty arguments, then I don't know what is.
You sometimes make good points Elle, and often you know what you're talking about, but while making those points provocatively is one thing, immediately going in and making it all very personal will never be an effective method of getting those points across.
I'm not interested in arguing with you, and I'm not interested in getting involved in a debate on how ant29northampton keeps his gravid females. I just think it's unfair for an entire forum to be looked down on because of the actions of a small minority of members.
