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So, to those of you who are not bothered by fellow ABers being verbally abused by WM in the way Ratter15 was - how would you feel if WM had said things like this about your parents, your upbringing?
Octavius, this was not about fighting Ratter15's battles, as I am sure he is perfectly able to do this himself without any help from me. I brought this up as I don't think ANY ABer should have to put up with being slagged off in the way Ratter has been by WM today. I agree that tongue in cheek remarks are a lot of fun, but there is a limit beyond which it becomes abusive and intolerable, not to mention unnecessary. At some point it stops being funny and WM seems to thrive on reaching that point with his comments. It is not just Ratter15 this has affected in the past as we all know. I do think though that those of us who see this happening should have the guts to ask that it be stopped. Simply reporting an answer doesn't seem to stop this kind of over-the-top verbal abuse by WM.