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23 Sep 2011, 10:36 pm

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So anyway... the benefits of respectability and moderation in autism advocacy politics...

As you were gentlemen...
glad your back


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23 Sep 2011, 11:41 pm

We're glad to have your back. :D

We're by no means perfect, but we do try.



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24 Sep 2011, 4:18 am

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I knew he was unfit to be a mod or any kind of "liaison member" because he is just too far out of his depth intellectually, and happy to let anyone who flatters him and plays up to him use him as a weapon.

Now you're just calling vermont an idiot. This is just criminal.

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It would makes more sense to reinstate ci and make him "liaison member".
:/ What is this, a tantrum?

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After watching me persistently stalked and harassed by Gedrene, derailing thread after thread in pursuit of his obsession, this unwarranted attack on me is absolutely disgusting.

I think to be honest you have simply ignored what I have said about catching up on EVERYONE on this forum no matter who they are. You aren't up for some special treatment. He was talking about tambourine_man anyway, a person who you have just called bad news and insulted, a person cornflake showed isn't bad news or should be insulted. That you'd manage to take what vermontsavant said and shift back to me is more indicative of an obsession.

Not that you already hadn't been obsessively condescending to me on the make me moderator thread, a thread where you made no complaints about vermontsavant...

I mean it's funny that you have already been asked not to cause problems before on the Autism Speaks U thread:
I would also like to ask that Zeraeph and aghogday stop derailing the conversation.

I didn't get a mention.

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I will never post here again unless there is a public apology from vermontsavant, appropriate censure of Gedrene's vicious obsession with attacking me, and the whole travesty of letting vermontsavant think of himself as some kind of moderator comes to an end, because he is instrumental in stirring more trouble than he prevents.


Oh, heavens. Fifth time you have said you would leave...
There is no vicious obsession just like there is no proof of Tambourine man being condescending or harmful.



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24 Sep 2011, 4:19 am

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I utterly disagree with Gedrene's statements, but will comply with vermontsavant's request and say nothing further at this time regarding Tambourine-Man.
i didnt say you couldnt talk about him,just not PERSONAL ATTACKS.feel free to make as many POLITE critizism of his political view points as you like

I'm sorry if I gave the impression that you had said I wasn't to post about Tambourine-Man at all.

You did ask that none of us make any personal attacks on him.

What I have to say regarding him, however, would be construed by some as personal attacks.

I am fully capable of playing with language enough to communicate my feelings without violating the letter of your instructions, but I will refrain from doing so out of respect for the spirit of your instructions.

The line between honesty and personal attack in this situation is very, very thin.
im sorry if i gave an impression you did anything wrong at all.i didnt say you were rude at all,far from it.i just wanted everyone to know only rudeness and personal remarks were banned.i should maybe have made that more clear,my bad


He started a vicious mess over on AFF. They are still burning me alive over there. I'm making wrongplanet my new home.

They really turned sick over there.

Mind if you give us a quote? I'd like to see whether their madness is all that it is.



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24 Sep 2011, 4:27 am

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vermontsavant wrote:
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I utterly disagree with Gedrene's statements, but will comply with vermontsavant's request and say nothing further at this time regarding Tambourine-Man.
i didnt say you couldnt talk about him,just not PERSONAL ATTACKS.feel free to make as many POLITE critizism of his political view points as you like

I'm sorry if I gave the impression that you had said I wasn't to post about Tambourine-Man at all.

You did ask that none of us make any personal attacks on him.

What I have to say regarding him, however, would be construed by some as personal attacks.[/quoute]
Construed? They are! You said that after viewing hundreds of posts by him that you had come to the conclusion that he was, what now? I think it was condescending. That's a personal attack when you have no proof, which you said you would provide and you haven't. Cornflake then had to, and he did very quickly and all the proof he got showed that you were wrong.

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I am fully capable of playing with language enough to communicate my feelings without violating the letter of your instructions, but I will refrain from doing so out of respect for the spirit of your instructions.

The line between honesty and personal attack in this situation is very, very thin.

No there isn't. Personal attack and honesty are very clear when you think about it. For example saying that I am personally attacking you is wrong, because all I have said is that you have no right to attack Tambourine_man at all and that all of your criticisms of me are salacious.

You only ever talk about me after whilst making some condemnation, trying to ignore all the sense I make. I can only think that you are offended to answer me because you'd have to admit to something, like how Tambourine_man is absolutely harmless.



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24 Sep 2011, 6:58 am

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You guys don't allow the same kind of bullying over here. I see that and I am incredibly pleased.
Welcome back!
*wheels in another comfy armchair, fetches cup of tea*


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24 Sep 2011, 8:03 am

AFF seems to be a modmin-free zone currently. I will sit back and wait and see if the founders can get involved and sort things out. For now it doesn't look so good. :(

I doubt I will become a regular at WP. Just thought I'd pop my head in and wish Tambourine Man all the best in his new endeavours.



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24 Sep 2011, 9:39 am

"AFF seems to be a modmin-free zone currently. I will sit back and wait and see if the founders can get involved and sort things out. For now it doesn't look so good."

Amy only gets involved when her power is threatened. A rabble of disorganised, self-indulgent cripples suits her fine. You witnessed AFF in action.



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24 Sep 2011, 9:41 am

Yesterday morning, I created a thread on AFF entitled "tambourine-man's thoughts on AFF" in the General forum in which I posted the Tambourine-Man's post of yesterday morning in this thread in which he roundly mocked and condemned AFF. I added no editorial comment.

I added two more posts over the course of the day in response to questions as to why I copied the text of the post rather than linking to it. Again, no editorial comment.

His comments were not very well received.

He and his sister posted many times, doing their cause no good whatsoever.

I woke up to some interesting developments.

Gareth, one of the founders of AFF, created a split from that thread:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthread.php?tid=23279

Post number 5, by Mechanima, is a scathingly accurate description of the situation and of Tambourine-Man.

It is expresses perfectly how I and several others, including Zeraeph, feel about John-Scott Holman, aka Tambourine-Man .

I will only quote one portion of the post, adding emphasis to some interesting news:

Mechanima wrote:
He has also shown considerable skill in playing off AFF and Wrongplanet forums against each other to his advantage. At this present time it would seem he has left AFF and been given columnist status on Wrongplanet, which seems to me a far more equitable arrangement that having him as "covergirl" on AFF.


If you read nothing else, I urge you to read that one post.

The thread that I started yesterday on AFF is at:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthread.php?tid=23266&page=1

I urge you to get to know our new columnist a bit better. Read the post, read the thread, and think a good while.


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24 Sep 2011, 9:44 am

fraac wrote:
"AFF seems to be a modmin-free zone currently. I will sit back and wait and see if the founders can get involved and sort things out. For now it doesn't look so good."

Amy only gets involved when her power is threatened. A rabble of disorganised, self-indulgent cripples suits her fine. You witnessed AFF in action.

Just for the record, both Amy and Gareth, both founders (as I understand it) of AFF, were involved in the discussion yesterday.


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24 Sep 2011, 10:13 am

Are we starting this all over again?

Yes, everyone check all of it out.

I'm really, really, really tired of all this.

Check it all out. Please, everyone, have a good look at the giant, unwarranted spectacle.

Have a good look and then PLEASE stop talking about it.

Anyone with an ounce of humanity would be disgusted by what went on over there. I can't believe it was allowed and I'm not going back.



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24 Sep 2011, 10:15 am

It's impossible to know T-M's motives at this stage and it doesn't matter. He was useful, he should have been used. Huge victim mentality means a lot of aspies genuinely believe that interaction will lead to them being taken advantage of. That's tragic because they're only harming themselves.

mechanima wrote, "We will never be able to trust a word they say, they are never going to let us have any real inpurt into their organisation, and it is fatal to take on anyone manipulative unless you have the time, energy, and stomach to manipulate them even better"

So, so wrong. If someone may be manipulative, you don't win by 'out-manipulating' them. You stay honest and let them hang themselves. In the meantime - hey look! - they're actually helping you get stuff you want.

You have Alex, say, doing his videos and using the weight of everyone here to further his ambitions without having to listen to anyone, or T-M, still smalltime so desperately needing to be popular, actually having to listen to people. Stupid mother f*****s.



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24 Sep 2011, 10:18 am

FOR THE LAST TIME!! !! STOP BAD MOUTHING TAMBOURINE MAN


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24 Sep 2011, 10:24 am

fraac wrote:
mechanima wrote, "We will never be able to trust a word they say, they are never going to let us have any real inpurt into their organisation, and it is fatal to take on anyone manipulative unless you have the time, energy, and stomach to manipulate them even better"

So, so wrong. If someone may be manipulative, you don't win by 'out-manipulating' them. You stay honest and let them hang themselves.


Well said fraac. If we really think that Autism Speaks is bad, shouldn't we really be trying to be the opposite of what they stand for and how they operate?



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24 Sep 2011, 10:30 am

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FOR THE LAST TIME!! !! STOP BAD MOUTHING TAMBOURINE MAN


Thanks. I'm pretty thick skinned but enough is enough.



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24 Sep 2011, 10:41 am

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FOR THE LAST TIME!! !! STOP BAD MOUTHING TAMBOURINE MAN

I'm honestly confused about what you mean about 'bad mouthing'.

I said I wasn't going to post any more about him. You said that wasn't what you meant - that I could post about him as long as it wasn't 'bad mouthing'.

Gedrene ask for links about what was happening on AFF.

I provided some of those links, with a minimum of editorial comment.

I did not, in any way, 'bad mouth' Tambourine-Man.

I'm afraid I must ask you to be very explicit about what will and will not be tolerated.


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