"No personal abuse please"

[january_bug]

In the thread in news where some users actually celebrated the deaths of five teenagers, why is ok for Ding-Dong to call me a bitch, but no ok for others to call him names!?! He might have only implied it, but is that not still personal abuse!?!

Please don't tell me you've become biased ABE - I have such faith in your impartiality!

[woofgang]

j-b, report report report!!

[Gill 05]

I read that thread and totally agree with you january_bug. There was no need for any of that.

[jno]

agree with woofgang. Use your report button. I can't do so myself because after reading the first three posts I just ran away in horror and am not going back. It is not ok, and you can classify it as 'abusive'.

[mycatis]

I'm the same jno, I haven't been able to go back because I was so horrified at the things that were being said. Don't put up with it Buggy. What the hell makes them think they have the right to talk to you like that? ggrrrrr

[VINNY100_2]

Im with jno,Took one look and done a runner,as Woofgang says report.report.report(:)Mind you I cant see any report this answer on mine?(:)

[Ward-Minter]

JB come on hun he did not call you a bitch. He called you a legal beagle as opposed to eagle. If you do a google search on his term there are 859,000 hits. I think it was a genuine mstake.

Do you really think i would let somebody call the AB beauty a bitch??? No way Jose.

[B00]

out of pure nosiness......which post izzit? or has it already gone? If it has gone i wish they'd give us nosy boots time to read em 1st- it's very selfish of Ed to remove before i've had the chance to pull my mouth into a shape resembling a cats bottom in disaproval!!

[VINNY100_2]

Its still in News Boo..... unfortunately!!

[kaktus]

boo - It's in news, the one about five car thieves who died in a car chrash. As said above some answers are quite horrific!

[kaktus]

oops crossed with vinny. I promise you answer wasn't there when I started writing.

[kaktus]

God I can't spell/write today, I was trying to say that your answer wasn't there when I posted Vinny...

Then there is that crash that adopted an h...

Sorry Bug, I'll stop fillin your inbox with e-mails now :0)

[Ward-Minter]

Christ people. If the answers are downright abusive, racist homophobic etc for abuse sake only then fair enough. But all because somebody expresses a view you don't like it is no reason for boycotting the question or requesting it be banned.

It has been said a million times on here before but what a boring world we would live in if we all had the same views. I am sure the brigade on here (whether right or wrong) who agrue for banning this or that are the very same brigade who are totally in favour of immigration and human rights??? Tenious link, I know, but you can't have it both ways. Diversity is good surely?

I would like to think that a Karl Marx loving muslim could discuss ANYTHING on here with a skinhead Combat 18 member without resorting to being "banned" all because the reader finds something "horrific"

PS there is no reference AT ALL to the darling JB being called a bitch.

[VINNY100_2]

It happens to me all the time Kaktus. im just so slow at typing(:)

[january_bug]

WM - there darn well is any you know it! That guy hates me, and the changing of it from legal "eagle" to "Beagle" was absolutely deliberate - credit him with that at least! Don't fall for it like people have with a certain quiffed rock and roll star who, for a long time, (has) got away with causing havoc and upset only to say "Ooops sorry, didn't mean it" and have everyone forgive him. In fact it's MORE than obvious what D-D was doing because he feels I'm arrogant so he was trying a "smart" insult to see if I'd spot it. He doesn't like the fact that I did, so he pretends to apologise - well three words sprung to mind about the genuineness of his apology. One was my, another was fat. I think you get the point! :-)

Everyone else - thank you very much! I agree, I should report. It was just that the Ed had obviously carefully gone through that thread and decided that it's ok for D-D to call me arrogant and imply that I'm a bitch. I know relative to everything else in that thread, it wasn't that bad, but I thought the Ed usually maintained a degree of objectivity.

[woofgang]

j-b I do sympathise in principle but "legal beagle" has been used in the UK for some years for both men and women in the legal profession (I believe that Jimmy Young started or at least popularised it) and it isn't a term of abuse as such

[january_bug]

Rabet - has raised this point today. However, as I said there - total load of rubbish! I of course acknowledge what you're saying as being true... but he absolutely and CATEGORICALLY meant it as a dog reference and an insult. There is no WAY that guy would miss an opportunity for a dig. He could have chosen Eagle or Beagle, and he chose the dog reference. Ding-Dong is fast challenging 10Cs, but he's nowhere near yet. It's just a pity that ABE buys the BS from both of them. I think it's the usual attitude that it's ok to make pops at the gobby ones because they're really thick skinned and fight back. Well, that, to me, is just utter double standards. Perhaps I should learn to run crying, and then people wouldn't be allowed to get away with saying to me what, said to any other ABer, would get an editing, a removal, or perhaps even a banning.

[woofgang]

well yeah, but can you appreciate how difficult it might be for the Ed to censure people not on the basis of what they typed but what they meant by it?

[january_bug]

I take your point, and of course it's unworkable. But I still think different people enjoy different levels of (for want of a better word) "protection" from the Ed.

This is just a very raw point for me, cos as school I was told that being bullied was basically all my own fault because I stood up for myself. Apparently by not allowing people to say what they liked to me, I actually invited further abuse.

I'm not saying it's bullying here, but it does seem that Ed assumes certain people can stick up for themselves, and that may be true, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't be treated fairly too! For example, Dakota is intelligent and fiesty and defends herself in a fight, but I bet the ed would jump to remove a post calling her a bitch. Yet for me, nothing. Just doesn't seem right, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't get backed up.

woofgang - you are right though, it's just too much hard work for an already over-stretched Ed.

[netibiza]

I didn't see it that way jan_bug but then I probably thought it was a real legal term. Don't worry what one person thinks of you. Don't rise to their bait. You can more than stick up for yourself, as we have seen in the past. Maybe Ed - like me - didn't understand the reference.

[Ward-Minter]

JB if he did intend to call you by a dog reference (which i honestly think he didn't intend to) look on the positive side.

a dog is a friendly, cuddly (not in the overweight sense!), cute, loyal, intelligent, loving creature who i very much like to be beside me in bed to snuggle up to and play with their ears.

JB, in the nicest possible way I would love you to be my dog. X