Belly

Have you been following the OLO approach to debate on the "Refugees will be an election issue" thread?

Then you may understand why I now feel constrained from commenting further on this topic.

Apparently people can call each other names and far worse, but to criticise a genuinely perceived flaw in an article brings on risk of deletion or suspension.

Well, if anyone was in any doubt you can now see how dishonest Severin and Ginx are, and how they work in a pack. Compare this thread and the thread at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10680 and you can see that the claims here are nonsense. You can also see their one-two technique at work.

They have never ever been threatened with suspension for questioning anything that I wrote in an article. This is a complete and, given that both are obviously intelligent, what must be a deliberate fabrication. Ginx was threatened with suspension for trying to hijack a thread, a fact which can be easily confirmed by reading the thread.

This raises two questions. The first is why I persist in allowing malicious posters to post things which are obviously not true about me, and which appear aimed at depriving this forum, and therefore the views of all of us who post here, of legitimacy.

The second is why these two commenters continue to hang around if they believe that the forum is skewed against them.

This is bizarre!

Why would a Chief Editor be posting in this manner?

Are you alright Graham?

Ginx you pated me on the back far too early.
It was is and remains not my intention to support you on this theme.
I took my medicine, ate my humble pie and moved on.
This is the best forum, GY started it and is why it is the best.
I will now,for the first time, look at the posts that bought this bun fight to life.
Rules are the wire fence we must all stay with in that fence exists to help as well as control us all.
Can I ask this? why challenge the right of any poster to start a thread any thread that seems strange to me.

Ginx, your last question was uncalled for. Please, your input is valued - don't denigrate it.

OLO is a good “forum”, really. Nevertheless, I agree with you entirely when you say;

>> NONE of them (OLO article authors) can threaten those that disagree with them with suspension.

I have treated the owner of this site-AS AN ARTICLE WRITER-in the same manner as any other writer. In the same manner as ALL members do! There is positive and negative criticism for opinions expressed in articles/topics. That is what free and open discussion is all about! <<

Yes, I often have seen and experienced the double standards here too – but what else do you expect, seriously?

So, you’ve been threatened with suspension for “trying to hijack a thread” – LOL. Now, everybody and their dog knows most OLO articles drift off topic anyway, so "hijacking" - huh!. Sheesh, I was even threatened with suspension for being “provocative” for Pete's sake, ROFLMHO now!

Hey, if Graham Young (OLO Chief Editor and moderator) wants to post his articles/opinions here instead of on his Ambit Gambit blog, so be it ... at least there is a bigger audience, and more onlookers :)

My enemy’s enemy, eh Qanda!

Actually I think Graham has allowed great latitude.

Some of the posts that certain posters --who shall remain nameless –typical post have been little more than noise. Adding little or nothing to the debate.

I found myself wondering how they got through –and why,even, the poster would bother.

If nothing else Graham's stand may have forced them to polish up their act.