Only occasionally I jump in like this, and I can assure you, the way I felt at the time was not ridiculous - as yes, "some posters" do know.
Oh for Heaven's sake! I didn't say that the way you felt was ridiculous. I said that comparing my perfectly polite posts to Dickens to those of 'V....r' was ridiculous. Please don't twist my words?
As I say, the 'some posters' thing is passive aggressive. Many of us have had that used against them, and that is very unpleasant, too. Defend yourself and you're 'making it all about you', or say nothing and have the digs stand.
The last thing I want is to have this thread blow up again, but there is a lot of hypocrisy going on. People saying that they have a right to free speech (true) are trying to deny that to others, either by running the thread down by posting chat all over it, and now, or after Dickens and I have agreed to differ, making accusations of bullying, veiled or not, and any disagreement is resurrected by someone claiming to want it to stop.
I understand people getting bored with a thread, but they can choose not to post on it. We all come on here at different times, and if people want to have their say when others have had enough, they also have that right.
