John Barnes' Granny wrote:Redrider wrote:As a new member to this Website, I have relatively little knowledge of the site politics and do not get enough time to read sufficient posts to recognise multiple names of the same person. But what I have observed is a clique of personalities who seem to 'Hunt in a Pack' either supporting each others topic or disrupting a 'non-clique members topic'. Together with a very distasteful element of behaviour, where members of the clique pick up on a moderators comments to an individual member and join-in with a 'good kicking while he is down'
All very immature and reminiscent of Class 3b School Politics: we're in the gang and your not.
I also wonder about the position of the moderator, joining in with the 'hares' but really being a member of the hounds. Which seems to create an inflated position of respect and sycophantic behaviour from the clique members.
I'm not sure what you are driving at.
However, I do agree that there are certain members like A.B. and The Hustler/Hustler's Revenge, who get ganged up on. I think the A.B. thing is unfair, but its hard to have sympathy for the Hustler, who has been banned before for starting inflammatory threads.
I personally don't feel that I'm ganged up, I can be stubborn and I will not agree with someone because they are the veterans of the board. I don't suck up to anyone, respect is earned and not given.