SYKES' TAKE ON - FRIDAY NIGHT IS MAYHEM NIGHT AND UPDATE FOR SATURDAY

It all started with my sitting down, coffee cup in hand, to see how things were progressing across the forums.   At first it seemed fairly routine, a few insults here and there, some misinformation being touted as truth and then, without any warning, all hell broke loose.  Controversy was at the heart of what was happening, having now become a three headed hydra, with hysterical screams and comments flying back and forth.  I tried to understand what was happening and finally, after some toing and froing across the facebook/twitter postings I managed to gather that there was a hacker on the loose, that hundreds of members had 'dropped off the radar', that admin were up the creek without a paddle - which admin I wasn't too sure - and it went on and on for what seemed like eternity.   It got very shrill and I am afraid childish as each of the now three Controversaries bellowed in rage against each other.  I did notice that one of these new Controversies was advertising the BNP and EDL on their index page banner, not a good idea. After a while I got bored so popped over to see how the vitriol was doing on Justice.  It wasn't going anywhere  as it would appear the antis were all muttering in their collective beards while there was no sign of any of the opposing crowd.  It was, to put it mildly, dead as a drowned dodo.   I don't know how that forum works, ie its situation re the forum providers, but I do know that quite a few forum providers do expect the people running these forums to keep their numbers up as high as possible as it helps keep the advertising revenue flowing in.   I wonder how many posters/visitors will be on tonight?

The Controversy Hydra reared its ugly head again and the blood-letting continued. And I notice HoHo and some of her little friends fiends have joined one of the three - don't ask me to explain, the whole thing is straight out of a Whitehall farce cobbled together with a Carry On script - a bad one - and a dash of Monty Python. I hope someone has employed a large force of cleaners as I can see the blood all over the walls again - very soon. Meanwhile, over on the Justice forum, it was execution time as admin wiped out Debunker - do not fret, you can see his major post where he let fly with a vengeance - on the No Justice thread here. It would seem that the more sensible posters on there have had enough and gone out there, thataway, which means the forum's numbers will drop. And now the rating of the forum has, as they say, lost its triple A rating and is now somewhere down in the minus F section. An attempt to muzzle the posters who disagree with the Party Line, by removing a certain case to its own section in order to distance it from the MCanns, doesn't seem to have done much for anyone. I remember the trouble the Australian footie forum had when they opened up a McCann section with trying to stem the false info, bad language, insults ad naseum - they finally closed it. You can still read but it is locked. And I am sure many of the posters from there landed on the Justice forum, going by the identical posts that have appeared. So, we can look forward to much mayhem etc on both the Controversy and Justice forums - so tasty titbits for your delectation will continue to be posted up on our threads.