Thumbing down

@ghost-of-a-duke said
In my short time in your club, I saw you track down somebody's real name and then start using it in the public forums, even though they hadn't divulged it themselves.

Sad indeed.

This smoke-screen counter-measure won’t save you from said thread (maybe more than one, but at least one) being listed in your own club.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
In my short time in your club,

You were a member of my club and a keen, active contributor to the forum analysis therein for at least 2 years possibly 3. You posted just as much as FMF and myself, started threads about various topics and contributors and got as involved as either of us other two.

You never once complained to the style or content of the club threads, not until your big flounce out at the end which wasn’t over the club itself.

I was a member of your dirt-bag anti-Very Rusty club for maybe a couple of weeks.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
In my short time in your club, I saw you track down somebody's real name and then start using it in the public forums, even though they hadn't divulged it themselves.

Sad indeed.

I remember the incident, it was actually a poster who posts using their real name, right now.

At the time your reaction to the person being identified was, and I quote you verbatim from the club...

“Lol brilliant”

@divegeester said

I was a member of your dirt-bag anti-Very Rusty club for maybe a couple of weeks.

Psst, many of the regular posters in this forum belong to that club. You get that right?

@divegeester said
This smoke-screen counter-measure won’t save you from said thread (maybe more than one, but at least one) being listed in your own club.

A smokescreen?

So you didn't track down somebody's real name and then start using it in the public forums, even though they hadn't divulged it themselves?!

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Psst, many of the regular posters in this forum belong to that club. You get that right?

So what, I tell them to the faces, in here exactly what I think of them, [or occasionally in a PM.]

Perhaps you have noticed?

@divegeester said
I was a member of your dirt-bag anti-Very Rusty club for maybe a couple of weeks.

It was pitched to me as an attempt to gut the General Forum by drawing away as many high volume posters as possible and then leave the hollowed-out General Forum to Very Rusty as some kind of vindictive gesture. I declined to join.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
A smokescreen?

So you didn't track down somebody's real name and then start using it in the public forums, even though they hadn't divulged it themselves?!

I didn’t track it down FMF did and you egged him on in private to do it. Apparently you thought it a “brilliant” move.

But yes I did replicate their username in replies to them yes. If you remember you were in total approval. You didn’t object once, then, afterwards, right up until now.

“Lol brilliant”

So back to you starting threads and getting your club members to gang-thumbs posts. Still denying it?

@fmf said
It was pitched to me as an attempt to gut the General Forum by drawing away as many high volume posters as possible and then leave the hollowed-out General Forum to Very Rusty as some kind of vindictive gesture. I declined to join.

The club’s premise was primarily to isolate and therefore bully Very Rusty. I deeply regret ever joining.

@divegeester said
The club’s premise was primarily to isolate and therefore bully Very Rusty. I deeply regret ever joining.

I simply said I wasn't interested in sabotaging the General Forum.

@divegeester said
I remember the incident, it was actually a poster who posts using their real name, right now.

At the time your reaction to the person being identified was, and I quote you verbatim from the club...

“Lol brilliant”

Wow, are you really referring to a bit of silliness and repackaging it as something sinister?

A member of the club volunteered 'themself' to make 2 consecutive posts in the GF, the second an exact anagram of the first. (Involving donkeys I seem to recall). The first post received 10 thumbs up and the second 10 thumbs down. It was funny to see 2 posts next to each other from the same poster one getting 10 thumbs up and the other 10 thumbs down, when they were anagrams of the same post.

It was a (one-off) piece of geeky harmless fun that involved nobody outside the club. Soon forgotten.

@divegeester said
I didn’t track it down FMF did and you egged him on in private to do it. Apparently you thought it a “brilliant” move.

This is true.

@divegeester said
So what, I tell them to the faces, in here exactly what I think of them, [or occasionally in a PM.]

And sometimes in a private club, hey?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Wow, are you really referring to a bit of silliness and repackaging it as something sinister?

A member of the club volunteered 'themself' to make 2 consecutive posts in the GF, the second an exact anagram of the first. (Involving donkeys I seem to recall). The first post received 10 thumbs up and the second 10 thumbs down. It was funny to see 2 posts next to each ...[text shortened]... t was a (one-off) piece of geeky harmless fun that involved nobody outside the club. Soon forgotten.

“Something sinister” haha certainly not! Not even gang-alerting posts is “sinister”. It’s just a forum board.

Perhaps you are just feeling your feathers being ruffled because you’ve been found out.

Have a Hobnob and maybe a lay down.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
And sometimes in a private club, hey?

No, always to their faces, the discussion in my club was nothing as bad as what ‘divegeester’ says to people’s faces. It’s part of my MO here and why I’m so unpopular.

Unlike you I don’t pretend, what you see is what you get.