No Mario, it's not the clique this time. Following my interchanges with Shambles on the other thread, it's now "Spaw's Spurious Spinnin' Mudcat Puerile Posse."

For the record - I did make reference to this 'posse'. As I thought this word was one that described the response of some - in the context of the thread in which the post was placed.

The rest of the words are not products of my imagination and I can claim no credit for them (or their speling).


But to defend Shambles and then to do exactly the thing you're defending him for, to another poster, does sort of disincline folks to think you're serious.

LTS

This response - made to our 'spurious Greek bearing gifts' - was in reference to an abusive personal attack (that was made to himself) and it turns out that Liz was right not to take this poster seriously.....

However, if this poster was thought to be posing in order to defend me in any way - I would like to make it clear that - it was NOT for making abusive personal attacks upon fellow posters or ever responding in kind to them. Perhaps the inference that I do indulge in this - can be corrected or evidence produced to support this inference?


This thread title was about what turned-out to be a spurious proposal but there is no reason why it cannot now contain some serious ones.

Whatever it may have been - posting to make personal judgements of each other's worth to post (bad or good) - was never the object of our forum. It sometimes seems that this is all that we are being encouraged to do. It should be no surprise that folk are judging right back and so on.........

Perhaps it would be good to adopt for the future - the idea that if we wish to express any form of personal judgement (good or bad) of a fellow poster - or indeed make this judgement to them - that we use PMs for this> That we never do it publicly and never respond in kind - if the original judgement was abusive?