Re: A Behind the Scenes Incident

[Marmora Man]

Will Admin "name & shame" the abuser or do we have to make assumptions from the absence of posts from known users?

[ratty]

SOunds like you have made the same assumption as me!

[Mikecg]

?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Whose absence are you noting MM?

[bigbadwolf]

Round of applause for Marmora Man for raising such a controversial subject, I bet it was L.....

[Administrator]

The abuser had the username "tomcat1".

[ratty]

2+2 = 56152

[Marmora Man]

I had no particular thoughts on who it might be - just that without hard news there's speculation. Given that some posters go "off the radar" for a while due to other commitments, holidays and time out it seemed unreasonable not to be definitive.

[KalamityKel]

It made big news ya know - the South London Press...

[bigbadwolf]

Sad isn't it.

[HonaloochieB]

It's that sort of behaviour that leaves one feeling crushed and devalued.

[PeckhamRose]

Those pesky "journalists", can't they do REAL news, like theft of clothes from outside the Mind Shop?

[bigbadwolf]

Or Mikecg's spelling.

[Brendan]

Odd Spelling of Mike on Internet Forum

[HAL9000]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> It made big news ya know - the South London Press...

Indeed. It also raises suspicions on whether the 'incident' was a behind-the-scenes advertising stunt.

[buggie]

.... would be a bit of a random thing to make up wouldn't it??

Looking at the number of views/posts there are per day don't think the forum is needing to stoop to that.

[bigbadwolf]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> Or Mikecg's spelling.

Can you picture the headlines? I'll help you through it.

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Today history was made as the first man in history has been arrested on the charge of poor spelling. Today police officers of the Met's newly formed grammar unit arrested a man in south east London and also seized his computer. Sentencing was swift as the judge took no pleasure in handing the defendant a copy of lines to be copied 5000 times and if done incorectly he would have to do them all over again. The defendant has reportedly made an appeal to the courts of human justice but it was rejected on the grounds that they couldn't make head or tail of what he was on about. Senior detectives some with over 30 years on the job spoke of the utter barbarity in which the defendant had abused our rich and diverse language. Speaking outside of court detective inspector Wolf played down claims that the law lords were thinking of imposing custodial sentences on these scum. "No we wont be reverting back to the days of the spelling Nazi's who followed a policy of mass extermination as that would be a step back in the ongoing crusade against thickies", "what we want to do is rehabilitate them back into intelligent society through a structured programme of Fuzz buzz and Biff n Chips books not label them as outsiders". "I'm also very glad that operation Typo was a complete success and congratulate my officers in their dedication of my new units baptism of fire case".

A woman who goes by the name KalamityKel was also taken into custody in relation to the charges above but was later released as she'd only been using text speak in which the only person who is harmed is the person who uses it.

[bigbadwolf]

Yes alright I edited it, shoot me!

[Mikecg]

Computer is spelt with an e as in computer....

[Andystar]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> It made big news ya know - the South London

> Press...

really, r u serious??

[will dex]

im still here!

[KalamityKel]

Andy* see the thread on other page or pick up a copy at your local news agents. No I don't work for either the newspaper or newsagents ;-)

[HAL9000]

buggie Wrote:

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> .... would be a bit of a random thing to make up

> wouldn't it??

>

> Looking at the number of views/posts there are per

> day don't think the forum is needing to stoop to

> that.

It was just a fleeting thought - I'm sure you're right.