BM

Your assumption that I cannot read French is misplaced.

Your suspension was not because the editor despises you, but because you had to compensate your lack of logic and facts with infantile taunts which eventually went too far and became abuse. The forum rules are clear.

While being sent to the naughty corner may have injured your puffed up Gallic pride, my experience is that those that dramatically announce their departure seldom do.

Poirot

"Your bravado, hollow shout into the blogosphere that it is, is only surpassed by your arrogance that your rants are somehow of consequence"

et tu aussi

I do not know what bonmot said but more frankness is called for.
We in my view have a problem here in OLO.
Bonmot a centerist often pulled me up, yet has been one of our best.
Laden down with SHADOW MINISTER and a few screamers who chant mindlessly of things that never happened, this site needs the bonmot,s.
It needs the poirots pelicans, it needs the Lexi and please forgive the other P,.
It has seen refugees, me included flee, but no we should stay, stand for free speech open discussion.
Abbittism, will die, the mess gillard,s self interested backers who stole my ALP and put PTY LTD behind it will burn.
A day comes rejuvenated Labor will see Cambell Knewman beaten and broken, VIC is near ours again.
NSW well on the way.
Abbittism, History,and even his party will try to forget it.
A test, like me or loath me[ do not get exited SM your loathing is a medal of HONOR to me]
Can any poster not know if the current rubbish in Victoria, and crime in Queensland was from my party, I would not have rushed in to print by now condemning them.
Now I await SM to do that!
Not really I am far from that silly.
BONMOT come back the site needs balance and it needs you, ten thousand times more than another like SM.

Poirot never consider leaving please.
I am aware, you lexi and others got very unhappy at times like the Muslim riot thread.
And too of the unhappiness with my views on boat people.
Once I too would have been just as upset, with my own words.
It is the very nature of men, and women, to squabble on such issues.
Yet gee forgive me the Pericles! got it, and some not mentioned, this site is not mine, but if left of center keep falling away, it will not be worth visiting.
I want to say I like GY have no doubt I am a burr under his saddle, maybe on top of it.
But his site is thanks to him,DESPITE SM the best.
It was my view SM post should have been taken down, no doubt it was flaming, but have promised to report only the worst.
SM in inferring GY supported that post, insults us all.
Poirot I am leaving SM hopefully never again will his flaming intrude on me here.
But will return to see if bonmot,s French can be put in to rough headed Aussie for me.
SM, if I am not a better man than you I am nothing, good by.

Belly have some pride.

You are beginning to look like OUG with your long incoherent attacks on me and everything else that bugs you. I understand your pain, I would also be distraught if the institutions I had supported for so long were run by corrupt and incompetent sleaze bags.

The forum rules are clear, but any wordsmith knows that you can convey much more venom by inference than direct attack.

Belly,

I wouldn't decry you for your opinions.
It's the style and vehemence in which opinions are delivered that are more likely to drive posters away.

SM, in assuming he carries some gravitas, delighted in striding around this thread bellowing vacuous puffs of ego - as if Thomson (or anyone or note) could be bothered taking remedial action against such a non-entity blogger.

We all come here for various reasons. bonmot pointed out that he has more important things to do - we all have. Weighed against a site that by the day becomes less representative of broad opinion and more representative of right-wing expression, bonmot's sentiments are understandable.

If a site is attracting more of one ilk and less of the other, it gradually loses its sense of balance and integrity. Often threads quickly morph into a spruiking platform emotively fueling group-think. Humans are prone to that, especially if they are fearful.

Whatever the machinations at play, there is definitely a noticeable dropping off of people participating on this forum to counter the majority mindset. I think that makes for a less healthy atmosphere and a less robust forum in general...whatever the cause.