You should put the whole context in Pynchme, not just the bits that suit you. You, Severin and some others were hijacking a thread to agitate for CJ Morgan to be allowed to come back early from a suspension. Anyone who wants to can click on the link Pynchme provides and search for "We want CJ".

I gave you a blunt warning because your behaviour didn't deserve any better.

There are a number of reasons for not arguing moderation decisions on the forum. One is that you almost invariably have to repeat the original offence, thus defeating the moderation.

Another practical reason is that the moderator shouldn't be at anyone's beck and call to have to keep coming back to justify their decision because that person wants to argue it until that person is argued to a standstill.

But the moderator has no option because if they leave an accusation like this one hanging people tend to believe it and believe that the moderator has acted unreasonably.

So yes, you've got this one shot, and that's it.

BTW I suspect J Parker won't be back because he/she has never sent me an email - I've checked.

If you really thought of it as my house you wouldn't have been trying to trash it.

Hi Kipp, with all respect due, I think your last post was rubbish.
I have never been able to watch horror movies, and have never understood why anyone would want to. Where's the enjoyment, in watching victims be terrorised?
I can't watch movies about the Nazis treatment of Jews, or of women getting raped and abused, or children being mistreated for the same reason.
I honestly can't understand why anyone would want to watch shows like "Law and Order, SVU".
I don't have to be a victim, to feel someone else's pain.
Why do you?

Kipp,
no I'm not gay, but I was a ten year old ten puond pom landed in Inala in 1970 and I know about discrimination.
But the circles you move in are everything. In university circles these days it's the macho types who are despised. I've worked and been friends with many gays (though I never identified them by their sexuality) and a very close gay friend of mine died of AIDS. I agree there's still discrimination, but you can't deny a lot of gays like getting up the noses of institutions, and good on them for that. But all this us and them stuff. I don't think any of us really fit the stereotypes anyway.

Grim,
I can relate to that. South American racism drives me out of a cinema.

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Just want to make the point regarding moderation of OLO, that it seems that complainants often have an "attitude" themselves when their posts are pulled up by Graham.
Not long after joining, I had a post deleted. It wasn't difficult to accept the decision as I had transgressed one of the rules. I emailed Graham and he treated me politely.
I was even involved in the "come back CJ" moment - although at the time I figured his suspension was over and that he was staying away of his own accord - was just letting him know that I missed his contributions.
Again, when Graham stepped in on that thread, I had no difficulty in letting it go. Pynchme surprised me by taking things still further with Graham...and I supposed it comes down to individual attitudes and what it is that you get out of contributing to site like OLO.
I prefer not to argue with the moderator, and if I came upon a site where I judged the moderator to be unfair, I would simply take my opinions elsewhere, not hang around to continually argue the point .

I'm starting to feel a little neglected; a bit like the -distressingly growing number of- healthy middle class white blokes who complain about not 'enjoying the benefits' of being a disabled black woman.
To the best of my recollection, I have never had a post deleted; nor can I remember ever receiving a personal email from the moderator.
And I thought I was radical. (sob).
Perhaps I should try harder.