Yes, Shambles, you are the one to ask about the subject of deleted threads because it is you who complain about the silent deleting of your threads/postings.

   Since it doesn't happen to me,I'm interested in what one can post about that is liable to deletion. You have the answer.

GUEST talks of anything but the ATTACKS on Shambles and the JIBES at him. Shambles is the only poster I know of,apart from some guests, who often gets attacks and abuse, even in threads where he has posted nothing. That amounts to scapegoating in my book. Which is extraordinary given that , unlike MG who rarely did too much apart from abuse (slight overstatement), Shambles is essentially impersonal. Shambles actually does full-frontally what we all do, which is to work away at any perceived weaknesses in others. In his case,it is any weaknesses in the Mudcat editorial team's activities or thinking. Shambles does it philosophically. A trouble with reasoning is that it is idealistic, and the world isn't ideal, so reasoning's job is endless.


'Giok' , I know what you mean, tho' a glance down the list of postings shows quite a few who don't leave Shambles to it. As a philosophy graduate (which is how I get to be such a 'fool'), I'm often ready for reasoning. However, as a student of psychology, I think it might be more productive to approach this thread from that point of view. Tho' delicately,hopefully. People here certainly find the idea that Shambles is a gift as in the joke I gave, or that scapegoating might be going on, or that people are blaming and avoiding their resposibility and so on, not straightforward to respond to.






       Ivor