Qui tacet consentire videture... I want it to be understood by MNHQ and by guests to this site that my silence on the subject of the recent speculative threads does NOT condone their existence.

[Aitch]

Aitch.

because they don't stop. I didn't take part in sabotaging the thread, but I think that was a reaction to that, a way to try and shut them up. You can't engage in reasoned debate with people like that.

NFK - passive resistance.

You don't have to take part, you don't have to agree.
But in the early days once people who were getting mightily worked up arguing with people on MM threads, removing the 'flame fanning' of argument allowed the threads to drop...once those that had a burning need had had thier say.

You don't have to sign here, you didn't have to join the boycott thread (although I always thought that 'boycott' was too strong a word for simply absenting myself - and i started the thread). It wasn't a thread about protesting how many threads there were, so what did it matter if it was another thread...it was simply saying 'I'm nat taking part, would you care to join me?'. If we were all in the room together our presence would be obeservable. But as we are not visible, this thread marks our passive resitance.

You see - dissent kep the talk going, and going, and going...look at the way your dissent has diverted this thread......only because people chose to engage, of course

exactly Blu. we're just sitting down in the middle of the road. you don't have to join us but you can't fail to see us.

I am extremely grateful for this thread, and wish I'd had the idea myself. I have often felt discontent with my stance of simply staying away from threads I've found distasteful for whatever reason (not just MmC ones), for exactly the reason MB gives - it seems like some kind of (literally) tacit agreement or condoning, and I've felt cowardly for not getting embroiled.

There were people arguing the case on there yesterday, and doing a brilliant job of it. It didn't work. We have to have some way of registering our feelings- basically we argue, we bump the thread out of existence, we sign Aitch's pledge thread or we go. There isn't really another viable way IMHO, and this is the least disruptive and most dignified. I for one am grateful to Aitch for having come up with this idea.

SauerKraut.
With knobs on.

Spawn

always knew we were a bunch of bloody hippies

I'm also very greatful to Aitch.

As ever, totaly agree with Tamum

Guilty of sabotaging that thread yesterday.

Arctic

sea

Pollyanna

they are quite a few names on here who have been on the threads in question - for whatever reason.

Please explain this hypocrisy to me.

oh god, binkle, are you one of them?

there is a difference between the odd 'cease and desist' post, or 'stop the madness', and pledging on here, and spending all day posting conspiracy theories and miss marple-isms, and then pledging on here, IMO

come again?

I havent signed up to this have I? Just interested to see some of those that have done have also admitted to posting on the McCann threads!

So, what is the point of signing on to this? The moral high ground?

Not trying to start a row but hypocrisy really annoys me and its what is so infuriating about MN.

What's wrong with any MNr posting on the thread, thinking its going a bit awry and withdrawing from it? Why do we have to have all this overblown posturing "I'm in the strenuously opposed to Mccann threads camp (except from when I feel the need to intervene and tell those on it how thick/disgusting they are") stuff.

How many people who have signed here have indulged in lurid and repulsive speculation on those threads?

Message withdrawn

didn;t mean you binkle, am expalaining my own position

TigerFeet

I was on that thread -trying to point out that we will probably never know exactly what happened.

As the thread degenerated into disgusting speculation I found myself feeling more and more sick.

It is a shame that "discussion of this is pointless" and "this is vile and distateful" are not seen as a valid opinions on a subject.

For that reason I am signing up to this despite having posted.

Discuss, give an opinion by all means. But some of the stuff on that thread was beyond the pale and completely unneccessary.