Poet:
I appreciate your comments and response.
Without belaboring the point, I would like to make a few observations in return:
1. It strikes me as being deliberately provocative, not to say just plain tacky, for bonnuss to have continued to post here once the new porch was organized. If it was truly her intention to avoid being the continued subject of "unfair abuse", she could easily have moved to a different neighborhood and made a fresh start. I believe she posts here primarily to keep the conflict going and to keep herself "in the news". I don't see how it can be construed as anything else.
2. I believe the same holds true, to a lesser degree, to a growing number of the other regular posters here. They are here, to all appearances, to "show" Voltaire and the rest of the other porch. That seems genuinely antagonistic, and it's highly disingenuous for any of them to claim they are being bullied by anyone when they are virtually camping out on his front yard and thumbing their noses at him daily.
He's only human. Eventually he or one of his friends will say "enough!", and respond.
3. I have read extensively on the new porch, and I have read here. There is simply no comparison in terms of the thrust of the two boards, and recently the contrast has grown even starker. Bonnuss is only an issue on the new porch to the extent that she is able to continue to attract attention to herself. Otherwise, there is almost no discussion of her (or of this porch) at all...only an occasional reference. There is a huge amount of other content and opinion. This porch, on the other hand, is virtually obsessed with the new one. People even seem to posting here lately in order to compete for congratulations on who can go over the other porch and incite the biggest response, or stick the sharpest jab.
Criticize and blame Voltaire or other members of the new porch all you like (Poet, I mean "you" rhetorically), but as long as you do so from this board, you are implicitly saying: "We want this conflict to continue, we want to keep it alive. And if we can finally irritate you enough into responding, then we have proven how truly vile you are and how guiltless, we."
My personal opinion is that it would be show far more class and constructive purpose to create your own board rather than simply continuing to ride on the coattails of someone else's accomplishment.
And those are my thoughts simply as an outsider looking in. |
