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[GloriaVanderbilt]

Hello,

I just reported a thread started by 'Dittony' which had a title attacking another poster and provided a link to a blog post.

It looked like a few others had reported it too as they had posted on it.

However in A/C there is another thread with the same title, which when you click on it takes you to a page saying 'error: thread deleted at OP's request'.

The OP however would appear to be someone who posted on the first thread, but not the same person who started it.

So can anyone please clarify what happened here...assuming the second thread was not posted by the same person as the first, (which has now gone) under a namechange?

(really hope not!)

But this is terrible.

What can we do?

It was awful here when you were away Dittany So many threads with people getting confused and saying "I wish Dittany were here"

And I miss Sakura too.

Dittany I know you have been putting up with a LOT of shit on MN. Please don't go because of posters like Reality and Hully though .

The trolls are another thing like you say.

If they do show up, I'm off out now but I think there are a lot of posters who should be ashamed of the way they have treated dittany. And I think it needs to stop.

SQ what we can do is stand up and be counted and defend dittany. If we want her to stay around we need to speak out against ganging up and bullying when it is happening.

Perhaps dittany could look at her own behaviour as well Beach. She has also acted very immature when posters have opposed her and resorted to insults and false allegations

You learn at a young: If you can't take it back then don't dish it out

I haven't dished out anything Bob I've hardly spokent o you.

I think you're prob well meaning and hopefully not a troll, but sometimes you come across as really self pitying and self-important.

Sorry but you do. People take the piss out of you not because you're a man, but because you're a bit... well, whiney tbh. People don't take the piss out of lots of other men on here.

You've said you've given up on feminism. Whcih is giving up on women, because feminism is about women being not being considered secondary to men.

I got mugged by black people years ago, but that doesn't mean that I've stopped supporting anti-racism. My belief in equality isn't dependent on randoms I meet on the interweb or RL, either you believe in equality or you don't and you don't turn your back on a principle because you meet people who piss you off. Saying you do, sounds like a) you're whiney and b) you didn't mean it int he first place.

Sorry if you don't want to hear that. But if you're sincere, you'll give it some consideration,.

edd, I am still very upset at your nasty and uncalled for attack on me. I think you are just attacking dittany because you do not want to explain why you attacked me for a post that was very lighthearted and nice. It is very hypocritical to suggest someone else is being immature when you are doing this ganging up on me nonsense.

edd, when you're backed up against a wall, sometimes all you can do is lash out.

You've missed half, maybe three quarters of the abuse dittany has received over the past few months.

I think she's more than entitled to act in any manner she feels fit to defend herself.

And that is reason 1 of fuck knows how many that I love dittany. Right there.

I don't engage with Edd directly and would prefer him not to address me.

Frothy: Works both ways on an open forum where there is free speech. If someone can give shit and not take it then the internet isn't for them

LRD: I never attacked you. I just asked you to enlighten us with your technical expertise and that you came accross as a bit rude. Doesn't seem like an attack on you

Don't worry, Beach... He's just trying to put dittany in her place, like a real man should....

But I'm no troll. I came here to discuss feminism. I sometimes agree with you I sometimes don't

edd, you and bob both attacked my lighthearted comment that was meant to be friendly. Don't you see that you are alienating the people who are making teh effort to understand you? If you become more and more extreme in your defensiveness, no-one will be able to take you seriously.

I apologise Reality - I didn't notice that you were already here.

As for the rest - Hully said some mean personal stuff to dittany on those numerous massive threads and a whole lot of people piled in.

It wasn't nice.

and sometimes, edd... you make deeply offensive comments, and try telling us women how to behave...

Guess why we don't like it

When did I do that? Link the thread

bob, I still do not understand why you do not accept my lighthearted attempt to engage with you. I have already apologized that it was so easily misinterpreted. As I say, i think you are perhaps becoming a little too emotional over this, and you and edd ganging up on me is not very fair, since I have been trying to engage with you in a way I thought you would appreciate. It is very hurtful to me. And I am afraid that it discredits you too, because this sort of extreme and emotional response to a simple joke just makes you look as if you cannot take any comment in the way it is meant.