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Once again, it appears admin has seen fit to remove me permanently to ?The Lounge?.


This time, no warning, no explanation, no compassion.


I have struggled my way through these past few months trying my best to enhance discussion on this forum. Encouraging debate on days when the forum is almost completely abandoned by everyone. I?ve managed to rip apart convention, heal wounds, bring people together, and yes, at times be somewhat controversial. I don?t apologise for this.


The price? Yet another working class voice silenced in the name of middle ground dullness. Controversy and bluntness shoved by the wayside, in favour of quiet sameness. Dull and pointless agreement. Is there any reason in me staying around if I am confined to ?The Lounge? like a criminal on tag?


I sit here in the garden, in the sun, pondering what I have done that is so bad as to be once more imprisoned in this way, just for having opinions. It?s not the drink talking, this is a genuinely perplexed me wondering what I?ve done wrong.


Have my forum days finally come to an end? Or should I wait until the magic 10k and self implode?


Louisa.

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It?s almost certainly because I had a different opinion to Mark on the thread about this festival in the park. Apparently, people aren?t allowed opinions on here anymore. We all have to agree.


Louisa.

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I think Admin does a great job and am very grateful for it, given the amount of entertainment and information to be had from this forum, but I can't see anything in your occasional spats any worse than mine or those of dozens of others on here, to be honest, and yours are a lot more mild than some.
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I think that the job of ANY Moderator on Any Forum is to insure that post do not contain any Offensive comments,


such as Racist, Sexist, Homophobic .. comments (I'm not sure if there is an -ism for remarks against any religion)

Comments that are offensive to certain groups of people.


I have Never seen Louisa say anything that would deem to be offensive.

I do not think anyone should be Banned, Blocked, banished for expressing an opinion.

Thats what forums are for. Discusion. The drop in posting on EDF (and there has been a Great reduction)

may well be due to people too frightend to speak out for fear of being blocked.


Nothing wrong with a good bit of Banter. Jesus, take a look how they go on in the House Of Commons. lol



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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> I have Never seen Louisa say anything that would

> deem to be offensive.


On this point I can't agree! I'm assuming you don't identify as middle class or a blow-in...


> The drop in

> posting on EDF (and there has been a Great

> reduction)


Has there? Isn't it just the Lounge? The other sections seem as busy as ever.


ETA: Hilarious! I had no idea that the forum converts the term Louisa used to use for incomers into that. See Louisa, you can't go - you have your own expletive!

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Bravo Louisa, your opening comments put other martyrs to shame "Struggle", "class", "criminal" and "imprisoned" you get lots of them in there.


I really can't be bothered for another discussion about this but the complaints I get and the "please ask Louisa to wind her neck in" requests just get tiresome. You're not banned, you're just confined to the Lounge where you can continue to encourage debate, heal wounds, disarm despots of their nuclear arsenals and bring people together etc but stay out the rest of the forum where the everyone is quite happy getting on with stuff without you.

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To be fair Louisa, you do bang the same drum *a lot*, and as I?ve said to you before, there?s no law against the changes that ED has gone through and there never was. You seem awfully bitter about something that you - and I - can do nothing about, whatever our feelings.


All that being said, people who send complaints to Admin about you are - in my opinion - forgetting that this is the internet...

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Louisa Wrote:

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> Once again, it appears admin has seen fit to

> remove me permanently to ?The Lounge?.

>

> This time, no warning, no explanation, no

> compassion.

>

> I have struggled my way through these past few

> months trying my best to enhance discussion on

> this forum. Encouraging debate on days when the

> forum is almost completely abandoned by everyone.

> I?ve managed to rip apart convention, heal wounds,

> bring people together, and yes, at times be

> somewhat controversial. I don?t apologise for

> this.

>

> The price? Yet another working class voice

> silenced in the name of middle ground dullness.

> Controversy and bluntness shoved by the wayside,

> in favour of quiet sameness. Dull and pointless

> agreement. Is there any reason in me staying

> around if I am confined to ?The Lounge? like a

> criminal on tag?

>

> I sit here in the garden, in the sun, pondering

> what I have done that is so bad as to be once more

> imprisoned in this way, just for having opinions.

> It?s not the drink talking, this is a genuinely

> perplexed me wondering what I?ve done wrong.

>

> Have my forum days finally come to an end? Or

> should I wait until the magic 10k and self

> implode?

>

> Louisa.


Just remember Louisa...


And in the end

The love you take

Is equal to the love

You make

..............Ringo and The Gang....

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JohnL Wrote:

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> Aww feel a bit sad - never really felt any hate

> from Louisa personally (I don't know what class I

> am - I work, but I get paid OK to do it, but I

> spend it irresponsibly)


She hasn't actually gone though JohnL , I hope, has she ?


It must be very difficult for Admin if they are in the individious situation of keeping the good Burghers of Dulwich happy though and if they receive complaints, may feel compelled to act on them.


I, also, presumably, have been the victim of Admin receiving the equivalent of " Whispers in the Locker Room as I, also, have recently been confronted by " you do not have permission to post on this Forum" which refers to all Fora outside The Lounge though I ,genuinely, don't know why and, clearly, circa 2018 am not going to be given an explanation.

This is the antithesis of the way I operate because I communicate and explain everything, however negative, to someone and directly, in real life, by phone or person, as well. No cowardly,weak or cold texts or E-Mails...

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in the big world of internet, this is a fairly lightly policed forum - more crown control admin than the steel fist of respecting my authority meme. have a look at other very local forums not a million miles from here, where you needed to provide ID to register and then be subject to the horror of a randist admin team.
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I'm sorry to see Louisa go. Although others - including me at times - may not agree with her views, I admire her outspokenness and the fact she's always true to herself and pretty consistent in what she says. Rare qualities in this forum and the country these days. Younger forumites may not know that these are qualities that used to be recognised as essentially British, but these days most of us seem to have become too soft to be able to listen to anything we find uncomfortable - again, me included.


In other words: 'I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.'

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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> I'm sorry to see Louisa go. Although others -

> including me at times - may not agree with her

> views, I admire her outspokenness and the fact

> she's always true to herself and pretty consistent

> in what she says. Rare qualities in this forum and

> the country these days. Younger forumites may not

> know that these are qualities that used to be

> recognised as essentially British, but these days

> most of us seem to have become too soft to be able

> to listen to anything we find uncomfortable -

> again, me included.

>

> In other words: 'I disagree with what you say but

> will defend to the death your right to say it.'



In theory sometimes.......

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Quia Differt Wrote:

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> I, also, presumably, have been the victim of Admin

> receiving the equivalent of " Whispers in the

> Locker Room as I, also, have recently been

> confronted by " you do not have permission to

> post on this Forum" which refers to all Fora

> outside The Lounge though I ,genuinely, don't know

> why and, clearly, circa 2018 am not going to be

> given an explanation.

> This is the antithesis of the way I operate

> because I communicate and explain everything,

> however negative, to someone and directly, in real

> life, by phone or person, as well. No

> cowardly,weak or cold texts or E-Mails...


It's because in your previous incarnation as the skin-crawling misogynist casual-racist Tony London Suburbs you were banned for making the forum an unpleasant place to be. Now you've come back the admin team have allowed you a second chance because we're nice like that.

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