A year or so has passed since I did a Take on punchups etc on a Friday night. I was wondering if it would happen again - and lo and behold last night it erupted. There are two war-zones and combatants so I will split this into separate comments. First we had a new moderator installed on a certain forum, a long-standing poster with strong views on certain matters but whose attitude is measured and fair. Her main opponent was a well-known poster, known by many for her abusive attitude to anyone who opposes her obsessive views and who has been banned from practically all forums. Immediately the shrieiking started, with threats etc to the Admin. To make things clear I will call the new mod A, the opposer B and everyone else D. D angrily demanded that B be made a mod, someone seconded it and B immediately posted up how she would control things if she was in charge. D also demanded that something be done about A or she would leave the forum ie a flounce. The Admin tried to calm things down, a exasperated poster said the whole thing was Groundhog Day and it went on and on. It is now Saturday, so it will continue on, I suspect, until Monday. We shall see, but I think Admin should seriously stand back and consider their options as I prophesize that if a certain path is taken the whole forum will become an unacceptable cesspit where free speech is not permitted. We will continue to post up anything about the progression of this matter. Now, elsewhere a certain nasty foul-mouthed poster decided to come out of the permanent fog she seems to inhabit and start posting up long gibbers, laced with disgusting foul language and threats. Reading her diatribes I wonder what exactly she is on - booze or drugs? Whatever the problem she is obviously deranged, as are the posters screaming back at her. The vitriol is high already, who knows how much further it will go and whether the whole thing will descend into something I would rather not contemplate. As with the early subject we will put up any posts that come our way. Keep watching this space.
