site23 wrote:Re: Barnsy leaving the forum:
I think is bullying is wrong. But Barnsy hasn't been bullied off the forum. He's been called rude names a couple of times for posting opinions he knew would be, at best, very controversial.
In Games he comes across as friendly and wholesome. In Stuff he comes across as a right-wing misanthrope. Maybe he should stick to Games and we would all be happier...
To be honest, I'm not aware of Barnsy's record as to what topics in stuff he posts in and how he goes about it. But that last line... bloody hell, site. Telling someone to "stick to Games" so that "we would all be happier". That sounds to be pretty divisive.
I'm getting a picture that some folk who have disagreed with Barnsy in the past are now really unloading. It feels to be more than just about the posts today and - IMHO - some pretty bad behaviour is being largely condoned; possibly even encouraged.
site23 wrote:...I sympathise with not really being up for politics debates on here. (I'm only myself making this relatively serious post because the topic popped up in a non politics thread.) But you do have to take some responsibility to just, like, not talk about politics, if that's what you want.
I, too, do not take part in some topics. That's fair enough, of course. But is it the case that if someone disagrees with you in these topics, you can be called names? And that's all fine? It seems so.
I *know* it'd be easier if I just shut up and didn't say anything about this today; perhaps I should just look away as someone else leaves the forum. But, if we keep doing this, there's gonna be about fifteen people left.