Recently, Silence of Mind declared me to be someone who edits the comments of others on my site. This is quite ironic, considering he deleted swathes of comments of mine from one of his own posts (granted, deleting is not the same as editing). His claims of editing carry no weight, and he has not backed them up, yet it seems others give credence to them, without any form of reservation whatsoever (see the comments on this post).
This greatly disappoints me. The party who will not hold SoM accountable for his dishonesty holds me to different standards. I am expected to prove my claims, but SoM is given a free pass to commit what would be considered libel in different circumstances. He made an allegation, yet refuses to justify it. He won’t retract it either.
Do I sometimes block people? Absolutely. Sometimes I deal with people who prove so unreasonable, I have no choice. This is the sad reality of dealing with anonymous trolls on the internet. On my site, I reserve the right to exercise my powers of moderation, to deal with said trolls. I try to give everyone opportunities to be reasonable, but my patience is not limitless. I will only tolerate so much, for so long. SoM exhausted my patience, and given Citizen Tom’s unwillingness to hold SoM to the same standards he holds me to, I dare say Tom has exhausted my patience too. Tom is aware I don’t edit comments (he has posted several comments to Meerkat Musings, without any form of restriction), yet he doesn’t even want to acknowledge this, and instead sides with someone unashamedly committing a character assassination.
If SoM wishes to return to commenting on my site, and has concerns around editing, I’m sure he is capable of taking a screen capture, or a photo of his comment, and he can archive sites via the Wayback Machine. I have no issue with any of that. As to his desire to have a discussion on neutral ground, there are plenty of sites where we can be judged by our peers on whether or not we are making honest, logical arguments. There’s Create Debate. We have Flip Side. How about Debate Hub? These third-party sites would offer no one any opportunity to edit or delete comments. If he wants to issue a challenge, he has his own site, and presumably knows how to link to posts of mine. I look forward to seeing if he can display the honesty and integrity that so far, he has sorely lacked.
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Both Tom and Som ( the Terrible Twins) are little more than disingenious Indoctrinated Dicks.
There was a time ( quite a while back) when some of us wondered if SoM was under medical supervision or incarcerated.
Tom is a curmudgeonly old fart who, I suspect, is still living in some decade when women were measured for ironing- boards, children were seen and not heard, black people stayed ‘over there’ and Mexicans were only seen gardening or in a Client Eastwood film.
SMH
I don’t think I would categorise Tom in such a fashion. He and I certainly hold very different social and political views, and I don’t appreciate how he employs double-standards, but the implications of racism and sexism… I haven’t seen that in Tom. Is he frustrating to deal with? Absolutely, but claims like the ones you’re making Ark, are pretty serious, and need substance behind them.
It’s a personal observation based on his continual harping about immigrants and Christian values.
I just enjoy stretching a point.
You might be surprised how close to the bone such observations really are.
There could be substance there, but I want to distinguish how I operate this site, from how Tom operates his. He might be comfortable with playing host to unverified claims, but I am not comfortable with even the possibility. I appreciate it’s an observation, but but as you said, you are stretching it, and that will give ammo to him and SoM, which is the last thing I need.
You cannot reason with those who are disingenious and critically-thinking impaired.
SoM is a first rate twat.
I don’t a monkey’s uncle about him. I’ve had dealings with him on and off for years and will do my best to wind him up until he spits feathers.
Tom is devious and will wheedle his way through a dialogue in whatever fashion he can to ensure he point scores.
Go look at his latest piece of crap in response to what is atheism.
I am presuming at this point he doesn’t moderate your comments?
He is not deserving of respect
so you should take him to the cleaners.
I certainly don’t hold SoM in any regard. He is a liar, and he seems quite determined to goad me into letting him comment here again, but my conditions for that are very simple: he needs to retract his claims.
As far as Tom is concerned, I have serious reservations, but I won’t frame those along racial or sexist lines without a reason, and my site won’t play host to implications, allegations or suggestions of such. I hope you appreciate that Ark. I am not him, and I don’t wish to operate by his double-standards playbook.
Your house, your rules, Ben.