The Comment is Free bus keeps trundling along and shedding gems as it lurches and wobbles from one accident to another.
As someone who no longer actually posts on CiF and only visits occasionally and fleetingly, today has thrown up material for three posts, which might make up for the gaps on other days.
Anyway, it seems that usini got into an exchange about the business of trolls from the political right being allowed to break the rules to give the impression of CiF being right-on and accommodating and caring, while reasonable discussion from anywhere else gets muffled and disappears.
He asked whether any of this would change once the election is out of the way and the funny old Guardian works out where its political heart might have been buried.
Then he says this:
Hell I don't mind naming a few names but I can't remember them off hand. Next time one of the Guardian black or Asian correspondents comes on I will post them. MaM is a racist, apart from his generally ultra right views but he has been here for ages. Armaros is a ferocious anti-leftist as is tom wollacott. There are so many here now. I may end up getting modded for this post, put on pre-mod or even banned, but to be honest I couldn't care less. Sometimes I am beginning to think like Olching that the whole idea of CIF has gone so badly wrong that it should be abandoned.
Whoops!
Moments later, of course, the post, as usini predicted, was deleted by a moderator.
Goodness Atomboy you don't get banned from CiF for calling people racists, paedophiles, child abusers, threatening them with violence or any other things you and I might consider serious enough.
ReplyDeleteYou get banned for criticising the Ciffers who happen to have got their names ABL.