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[ABSpareEditor]

After the events that occurred over the weekend, rather than emailing several individual members, this is a public statement.

In life, you will find that you get along with some people more so than others. Online, this is amplified, as the Internet allows you to meet and communicate with more people than you normally would. This can be a good thing, getting you outside your "echo chamber" and "filter bubble" and introducing you to new ideas and experiences. But it can be a bad thing if people, rather than opinions, end up being attacked.

Therefore, please make sure that personal, harmful attacks do not get posted in your questions and answers. Such thoughts can’t be helped, however writing down those thoughts and clicking “Answer Now” is not acceptable. There is a space between action (somebody posts something you don't like) and reaction (you post something back) - that space is your thinking time, when you can choose to be better. Write the post, by all means, but do not click the "Answer Now" button!

If you know that there are certain individuals on The AnswerBank that cause upset beyond the topic of discussion, then you need to take it upon yourself to ignore, avoid or handle them better. Goading is unacceptable, do not rise to it, report it to us and we will deal with it as best we can. We can't referee "Who is right", "Who is wrong", "Who is lying", etc etc. What we can referee is "Did you post a personal attack". Don't do it.

Please realise that The AnswerBank is a community that connects us all. As part of the community, it is your responsibility to make it a place where other people want to be. This applies all of the time, not just some of the time or most of the time. If you can’t do this then we must and will take action for the benefit of the community as a whole.

[bednobs]

Thanks for explaining my answer removal ed

[davebro]

oh dear! is the spare ed going to have to delete his/her own thread.

[MissTerious]

Can I add that I have never been in a clique and only communicate with three old members occasionally of AB on FB, none of whom were trouble makers or the person I was trying to defend.

[Peter Pedant]

o god am I allowed to whisper - I will if you will
( sudduv inclusive and fun)

cd we perhaps have a rule, any short crushing one liner see above has to be in a foreign language?

foo = ouai ! - end of = finis, or ( vel!) ite missa est
put a sock in it = ita domi
Gawd ! = kupie

[MissTerious]

Hopefully stop the thread Dave and remove the very recent posts including mine.

[Peter Pedant]

Jamshed wino
he is mentioned in the rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
says PP tryinng desperately to life the um tenor of this thread

The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep; And Bahram, that great Hunter

I think the great mass of ABers would do better if they read more widely

[Canary42]

I see some (albeit mild) sniping has already occurred on the thoracotomy thread, within hours of SpareEd's warning.

Sighhhhhhhhhhh..

[Peter Pedant]

I quite like mine - I do think about them
many people are piping ( R of O K again) (*)
scrap this thread! scrap this thread!

and the difficulty is that I cant recollect what they said first time round

(*) And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Pehlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! "Red Wine!

honest someone started this with Jamshed wine.....

[Peter Pedant]

I dont remember the bit where Jamshed gets a rib spreader and perfoms a thoracotomy ( cracking a chest) on Khayyam

but hey it is a long poem

[LadyCG]

Perhaps Suzy the troll missed the provocative comments at 11:57 and 12:01 yesterday whilst munching on her haggis.

That's the thing with bullies - they can give it but they can't take it. Oh and they have aliases because they haven't got the guts to post as themselves.

[choux]

[LadyCG]

I will not be bullied of AB and neither will my Geordie pal.

But now the time for me to be the bigger person and walk away from this exchange.

[pastafreak]

Please...just give it a rest.

Not you choux x

[gulliver1]

E/D How about a special section for women Only
and let them fight and squabble amongst themselves .Then the men can enjoy sensible threads . ha ha.

[choux]

SpareEd, you will be pleased to read that my friend andy-hughes and I kissed and made up yesterday - your words have not fallen on stony ground :)

We retain the right to disagree in future though but more politely.

[pastafreak]

There should be more kissing on AB

But maybe not as jealousy will read its ugly little head. Oh well...

[ABSpareEditor]

Fantastic, Choux. That is wonderful to hear. Be the change you want to see and all that.