richard wrote:I agree your quote is not 'bashing' and an honest question which should have been answered
You should know better than to be taken in with this old chestnut (long ago responded to), which has clearly been fed to him by another member. I have posted rarely on health matters in the last year, due to the ridiculous fuss created by the statin-addled.
hhfarang wrote:Unfortunately, most of the threads he starts are written knowingly that an adverse reaction will follow.
You jest. Do you think I have some masochistic need to be constantly abused by those who succumb to their worst impulses? This is just another way of saying 'he made me do it'. On the rare occasion I have been left alone, the subject is discussed civilly, with no fuss.
Other members have expressed similar views to mine. So I am hardly isolated. This cuts no ice with bashers due to their 'just one person' homo-erotic need. They cannot see anyone else, locked as they are, in their fixation.
TROLLING. One of the definitions of 'trolling' is to 'provoke an emotional response'. Well, my posts certainly do that, at least with those who lack emotional control. Yet, what do you think the mainstream media do? Day in day out. They sensationalize and write to get an emotional response. The dominant theme is fear.
If you want to be read, amongst the thousands of talking heads trying to get your attention, on a daily basis, then designing posts to be read, is common sense. If you want dry prose, go the library.
Others have their own way of getting the attention they crave. One way is shout and bellow and demand to be read. To use giant fonts, pretty colours and hide your writing deficiencies in a forest of juvenile dancing icons. Another is to hurl abuse in 'drive-by shootings. Another is to act like a Quality Control Inspector, picking others up for their literary or logical failings. It helps keep you smug and relevant, in your boring existence. Or simply be a pest. They will all claim to be the one who is rational but...
I certainly do not write to be chased around the forum by muggers bent on vandalism.
For years a small number of members have complained and complained and complained. They want the forum to be shaped to their particular tastes, to only allow their viewpoints, so their world stays cozy and comfortable. Reading about fishing and trips down Soi Bintabaht. If they stayed in those areas of the forum they would find the peace and tranquillity they desire. At least, that is the thinking. But no. They stray from the reservation and read and read and read, even when the option not to read is available to them. Their suffering is grievous. The noise they make is frightful. Their pain totally unnecessary. Ex-military 'medics on a boat' know this as a 'self-inflicted wound'.
While I may have been the key to unlocking their psychoses, I am not my brother's keeper. Bashers need to take responsibility for their own bad behaviour.
...you would be better off answering questions that you can answer with confidence and proof.
Better off? In what sense? Attracting the psychologically vulnerable naturally carries some risk. Thailand is a magnet for some very disturbed individuals. Will they take their hatred and obsession off the forum? I have already been told I am discussed.
As for proof. Information is no longer under the absolute control of the 'elites'. Whether junk science, media experts, flawed or manipulated studies or the lack of any studies at all, the proof we are presented with is no longer accepted, unchallenged. That can be tough for some people to cope with.
The internet has given us many different versions of events. Fighting this is a losing battle because the genie is already out of the bottle. I am not the first 'dissenter' nor will I be the last.
Bristolian wrote:MrP, this particular thread and the Opening post was clearly was in my opinion, intended to attract the responses already posted. Why would be my question? If the responses were so predictable for the most part and predictably negative towards you, why, why, why?
I initiated this topic for several reasons. To draw basher fire away from other topics, to cast light on the problem of internet bashers in general and to flag (as if it was necessary) the arrival of another 'basher'. This one a little more venal than others who have gone before.
I'm well aware such a topic would be quickly infested and that the 'Is Trolling a sickness?' topic or similar would be created in response. I have the malcontents on ignore, so don't pay them any attention.
I'm interested in comments from other forum members because looking ahead, balance in the forum should concern everyone. Now that a particularly venal newcomer has established his level, it is likely that more flaming and perhaps a solidification of the 'pack' will occur. Basher wannabes who were easily contained may now be emboldened to come out and play. The result is not going to be beneficial for the forum.
I have been on enough of them to know that cliques will always try to establish themselves and dominate. If they prevail then the forum is no longer a shining example of free speech but a place fit only for a particular sub-group and the thick-skinned. Hence my battles with SJ.
You are intelligent enough to understand.
Who is the Boss in Your House? poll was the last one. 
Are you qualified? 
