@engineer,
As Region has now twice - on two different threads - provided the link to the conversation I had with the owner of this site on the
Wikileaks thread, I think I'm entitled to respond to the scrutiny which that conversation has received.
Quote:Robert said his motivation for this particular change was one annoying poster who kept trying to engage him in a conversation....
Yes he did say that. Or something to that effect. That I'd been trying to talk to him for something like
two years, which is absolutely
not true. As I pointed out during that conversation.
What I had in fact
done was
question some of his recent
statements (on only two threads, as best i can recall) like ...
... that drone attacks in Yemen are acceptable to him, when they aren't in Pakistan. I asked him why he held that view because I couldn't see the difference.
... like saying Julian Assange is just using the possibility extradition to the US as an excuse to avoid facing "rape" charges in Sweden. When there is plenty of evidence
on the record of flaws in the prosecution's case against Assange ...
Never mind
your own particular views on the use of drones in the middle east, or Julian Assange or Wikileaks, I was asking/ questioning
statements that had been made in discussion.
Every single one of you who has engaged in debate on this site has done that, surely?
But to cut a long story short ... to
then be told that
I was the reason for the planned blocking changes on A2K, because I was so "annoying" to the owner of this site ... simply beggars belief.
That's a ridiculous thing to say.
And pretty offensive, too, I might add.
If management of A2K decides on particular changes to how this site operates, then fine. Management should
own those decisions. I accept that users don't have any say in these decisions these days.
But at least have the integrity to be be upfront about those decisions & not blame them on any one particular site user.
That's bullshit.
.
