CUK Forum Members Poll

[NickFitz]

If Squirrel Man was so jealous of his product, reputation and project members' standing, he should have a. Never made it so easy to identify himself b. Realized that web forums are not vicars' studies where folk chat nicely over tea & biccies c. Taken more care to protect his reputation and that of the project. It's wrong to point the finger of blame solely at Likely (RIP).

Likely posted libellous comments. Nobody forced him to, he was just being an obnoxious (and apparently rather unhinged) troll.

AtW defended himself, his project and his business against those comments. That was perfectly justifiable.

[Old Greg]

Well, I missed the latest spat. What happened?

Unfortunatley the sCUK pectrum from light-hearted fun to more edgy debate sometimes gets blown apart by some tw@t who is purely out to cause trouble - hopefully I'm not one of them.

[AtW]

I really wish that I was not involved in it at all, and I ignored completely the fact that Likely posted link to personal info about me which is what matters bad because his comments would appear to be not in light of saying something to anonymous name but to very identifiable person suggesting that that person's business is engaged in deceit.

I mean, how would anyone feel if someone posted link to your LTD website with CV/client list (many don't have it public but imagine you do) and said that you specifically (he created thread about how ugly I look like - something that I ignored totally) deceive your clients? If you don't respond to this it would mean that you agree with his statement but he kept digging himself deeper and deeper.

Maybe there should be a rule on this site which prohibits posting any personal information about its members - I am not suggesting this to protect me, you know I am not afraid of people associating me with specific real life person, but it seems to me his started thread about me personally saying I am serial killer (I ignored that) made it inevitable I'd post there at some point and he'd try to wind me up or something, in a way he succeeded (if he planed that), even though I think he was just acting on impulse saying things in the heat of the moment that he was not meant to. Which is why I asked him repeateable to evaluable his statements in light of new information he received and reconsider. What more could I do? All I effectively said that if it was in court then I'd easily disprove his statements that he'd have to prove - this made his posting libel that can potentially cost him

I mean we all have fun here and I do say stuff like guru and all that, but if I knew sasguru's real business I would not be posting about it here and I certainly would not be saying he deceives clients etc - that's serous stuff that can affect people in real-life, any responsible person would be very careful about things like that - it can cause real very serious damage, the only consequence of which would be that the person in question would have to sue the guy who made wrong statements if only to clear their name (nevermind money), that's why I pressed him to retract statements because I don't want to be sueing people (it's expensive and very aggravating to all sides).

[Incognito]

AtW you have nothing to feel sorry for. As far as I'm concerned and most of the sensible posters on here seem to have the same consensus, you were entirely in the right.

Banter is one thing on a website where everyone is anonymous, but some of the comments about AtW today have been over the top and certainly not 'just a bit of fun'.


And I hope your plan B is a success.

[AtW]

I am just annoyed at wasted time - middle day discussion was much more amusing, thanks for support, time to finally go back to SKA!

[SandyDown]

AtW you have nothing to feel sorry for. As far as I'm concerned and most of the sensible posters on here seem to have the same consensus, you were entirely in the right.

Banter is one thing on a website where everyone is anonymous, but some of the comments about AtW today have been over the top and certainly not 'just a bit of fun'.


And I hope your plan B is a success.

yep for a change I think you were totally in the right AtW

Hope your SKA is successful

[AtW]

yep for a change I think you were totally in the right AtW

Hope your SKA is successful

Thanks

[tay]

I dont get this debate at all. It seems a pretty easy line not to cross, when you start using peoples real names things get dangerous, not just for the person saying it, but also the people that own the forum that the comments are on. If I was a mod, I wouldnt even bother risking it.

[AtW]

when you start using peoples real names things get dangerous

Aye.

http://www.urban75.org/info/libel.html - "You can't defame nicknames when people don't know who they are. ". If he was just talking about AtW then it's fine - talking about specific personal names providing links to their site and then making seriously bad comments is not wise unless those people are politicians and other folk who due to their public status can be expected to take flak but even in this there are lines not to be crossed.

[BrilloPad]

I am just annoyed at wasted time - middle day discussion was much more amusing, thanks for support, time to finally go back to SKA!

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