A very interesting while unpleasant and so human-typical page this is.
There are very few "bad guys" on this forum, less than 5 IMO, very very few. Most of the "combatants I've learned to see as people with dedication and good intentions, each of US with their flaws of course.
I recommend that the pinch of wisdom that is shining through in the last few posts be adopted by all you good guys.
If ever I have a real problem is when the manipulators of which as I said are very very few get away with their dirty play.
In my opinion the forum quality in general has improved recently. I feel very comfortable and there are so many good and smart people here.
I opted out of the COVID thread months ago because it's a useles attempt to hit the fear out of some and bang reason into others.
This is a great place to be so forgive the flaws and emphasize the vast amount of great stuff in here.
Have a nice weekend @all
Why don't you post the private message you just send me here in the public forum? Why start gossip in private?
Very easy to answer, it's to avoid further discussions to no avail, but if you insist there is no problem.
I sent him via PM a message that says in general that I know that there are groups who exchange regular PMs to decide upon some user's to unify responses in away that makes it look like the guy is alone and all others don't like his approach/attitude.
Why I know that is from two sources, one is a PM from a person who knows such things because he is on the receiving end and then from time to time things look like a bit concerted, often to be confirmed in one or another way later.
So I wanted to be nice and give FG a heads-up without breaking loose another back and forth bickering and let hime know that this can happen and that he is not totally paranoid, this in response to someone who called him that. While sometimes there might be some to it, not in this case. Perhaps the fact this was not well taken has to to with one of my earlier replies to some doomsday-threads and posts which I do not support in that form at the time, who knows.
Of course I wanted to be kind and now I've been punished to see fit to reply to this again unncecessary escalation of a non-topic (small topic)
Further I believe PMs are more or less exactly for this purpose, to exchange thought that don't belong into public or that would derail a thread. I do that once in a while, for example I predicted Phoenix his fate on day 2 of his appearance but he didn't want to understand and it happened.
however i think i can live with it and as long as i learn from my mistakes I forgive myself and anyone else.