And Mr. Myerson has now been suspended:
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1068707&postcount=30

There's a nice "1984" feel to the way they are using these rules against Mr. Myerson - if The Dandy is a troll, then the mods will take care of him and you can't confront him, if he is not a troll then you're not allowed to say anything because it's not "gentlemanly", and if the mods are wrong then you can't criticize them because they're busy volunteers. Internet mods, man, they do love to establish these tiny e-dystopias! Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a diminishingly small amount of power apparently does the same thing!

Mr. Myerson, bid farewell to that silly website, it isn't worth your time to argue with these trifling people.

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I gather I'm banned. Not that Mr Gilchrist was able to summon up the courage to tell me of course.

Oh well. I shall write to Mr Gilchrist's advertisers and encourage them to stop paying him or giving him freebies. I am a member of a rather large syndicate who are likely to support me, so something may yet be done in terms of teaching Blandy some manners.

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Last edited by Simon Myerson (2010-03-09 01:40:29)

- Oh, and, just like Harris, The Dandy's stuff is full of mistakes.   Troll!   

Groupthink at both places - although more interesting here. Also, in view of Simon's experience, while there is proper conflict here - nothing wrong with that - at AA you are more likely to be stabbed in the back. It will be recalled that Sir Humphrey Appleby noted that to stab someone in the back, it is first necessary to be right behind them.

A brief note - The Dandy, and his semi-obvious sockpuppet Augustus, have now disappeared from Ask Andy entirely. Banned or just bored? Who knows!

Those are reasonable questions to which the answer is no.

I wanted to be told why I was being warned for calling out a troll. I expressed myself in a way which I thought would get me what I wanted. In doing so I took Blandy at his own valuation. That he is a screaming hypocrite is his problem. I thought that he would be more likely to respond sensibly if he was addressed as he wished to be addressed. The same applies to WTF, who poses on AA as some sort of idealised gentleman (perhaps this is where i-gent comes from?), but behaves like a small-minded and frightened jobsworth whose role as a 'Moderator' is his life-defining achievement.

I actually didn't want to be banned by Blandy, although it hardly matters that I was. Had I told him to go fuck himself, I would have been banned for sure.

I am enjoying the company of the other convicts, thank you ...

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