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Originally Posted by Howard Treesong
@Rasta: If you stop focusing on yourself and focus on what the community wants, you could be too.
Trouble is that what the 'community' wants is misrepresented by the posters who personally dislike me, who just want someone they dislike to either go away or be reduced to what they consider to be a second-class citizen on the forums.
Take the beginnings of the Sexodus thread for example. Most people on here are fairly liberal, feminist people and clearly wanted me to be proven wrong, humiliated and have my ideas utterly discredited.
So, when Anais posted a study supposedly supporting the idea of internalised, universal misogyny, and I pointed out that it was unscientific, had less than 200 participants, failed to establish a controlled study and was clearly agenda-driven it annoyed people.
(This was the one which claimed that internal misogyny caused people to show a bias towards men when looking across a range of CVs, and threw in the completely unevidenced claim that 'men lie on their CVs more than women'.)
In that example, 'giving the community what they want' would simply have consisted of not challenge his misinformation in order to let him win the debate as people were hoping he would.
Changing the subject slightly, there was an interesting discussion yesterday on the LC thread and I replied with a little insight that did indeed provoke a brief discussion/debate. It was only a short post, but it fulfilled every single standard of what I've been told qualifies as a constructive and reasonable one.
I'm sorry it seems like I'm dwelling on the cricket post but its something that pretty much conclusively justifies what I've been saying. People objected not to what I was posting, but to the fact that it was me posting it. Fabien and El D wanted
me to go away and told me to piss off to the containment thread despite the fact that I was making what was demonstrably an on-topic contribution that contributed to the debate, that people responded to and that had nothing whatsoever to do with me personally.
I did everything that was asked of me. I still got the same response.
Put simply, there's nothing wrong with disliking me, but just be honest about it. Tell the mods that you dislike Rasta and that you want him to be removed because you don't like him.
Or failing that, try and hone your keyboard warrior skills to make things so unpleasant for me here that you drive me out, but don't be a little bitch and act is if you're somehow doing favours for 'the good of the forums'. Doing the latter only helps me laugh at you when you resort to the former.