FAO GarlickBread

[sinkov]

Just a few observations on this latest storm in a teacup.

First of all Garlickbread has not been banned, he threw his toys out of the pram and flounced off, making the bizarre claim that he was being denied his right to free speech, and yet it's Alto who gets accused of taking himself too seriously.

There are two Mods on this board, Alto and BT, and it couldn't exist without them, if anyone is unhappy with the way they operate I'm sure any offers of assistance would be appreciated by both of them.

Looking back over the last 150 threads started on CM in the last three months or so, there have been 25 different posters contributing, 5 of them have contributions in double figures, another 4 between 5 and 9 contributions, These 25 posters are the lifeblood of this forum, they put up their opinions for discussion and argument, they have to be prepared to be argued with, told they're wrong and sometimes laughed at, it goes with the territory, but they are prepared to put their heads above the parapet and be shot at.

Garlickbread isn't amongst those 25, as far as I can tell, and I stand to be corrected, he hasn't made one single contribution since he suddenly arrived out of the blue on this forum, all he has done is lurk in the background and snipe at the contributions of others. Which of course he is perfectly entitled to do, but I fail to see how this makes him a 'good poster', in my opinion he's nothing of the sort, he simply exists on the backs of those that do attempt to make a positive contribution to the board.

If no one was prepared to put the time and effort into modding this board that Alto does, it couldn't exist, if we were all 'good posters' like Garlickbread, simply sitting back sniping and contributing nothing, it wouldn't exist.