[jambutty]

In response to an anonymous and negative Karma comment for the thread “Thai Army 1 – Thai PM 0” I simply asked “What’s A Nice Thread?”

The nearest that anyone got to providing an answer was WillowTheWisp with a picture of some thread. Not exactly what I was looking for.

Other posts seemed to be more about negative Karma rather than the topic.

Then Less’ post referred to me as jam and Jambuttie and also declared in a smiley that “THIS TOPIC SUCKS”. Now that is not the nicest thing to state about a topic. In a further post Less tried to laugh it off by saying he didn’t mean it to refer to the topic but to his post. Never having had the ability to read minds I could only take “THIS TOPIC SUCKS” to mean – well “THIS TOPIC SUCKS”.

I don’t know about anyone else but the Amercanism SUCKS is a rather derogatory remark so I asked Less why he was adding to the thread if he thought it SUCKED. I also asked:

By the way my user name is jambutty, not JB, jam, Jambuttie or anything else so please do me the courtesy of addressing me as jambutty.

A simple request put quite nicely I thought.

Less came back with a deliberate goad in large red letters, which I ignored.

Seeing as the thread had deviated into negative Karma I published three more awards with my comments about them.

The thread then degenerated into reasons why some people use ‘pet’ names for their friends and I felt that I was being bullied into accepting that they should be able to call me anything that they like for their own convenience. I countered that outlook and received three more anonymous and adverse comments for my trouble. Two of which went out of their way not to use my user name. I’ve seen more adult behaviour in a Kindergarten playground than you get from some people on this forum.

It is comforting to know that there are several qualified psychologists on this forum who can diagnose a mental condition on virtually no evidence whatsoever.

But some people still don’t get it!

All that I have asked for is that people use my user name and not anything else and also to put their name to comments that accompany a negative Karma award.

I don’t care about the system of Karma, Power and Ackers. I view it on the same level as getting a gold star whilst in Nursery School, although some members hold a great store in receiving Karma. I do care about anonymous and derogatory remarks that accompany a Karma award though.

I don’t care if members, who are friends off the forum and know each other well, call each other by whatever name comes to mind. It’s got nothing to do with me. But it seems like I am not allowed to have my own opinion on that issue because it clashes with the opinions of certain members, what I have labelled as a clique or faction (not Mafia). Although it appears that most members seem to agree that Karma comments without a name to them are the pits.

This is supposed to be a friendly forum and in the main it is but there is a clique or faction that maintain the friendliness but only if non clique or faction members agree with them or at least not disagree.

Woe betide anyone who happens to disagree. The clique closes ranks and at best the thread gets pulled off topic.

Now if anyone wants to argue against me then go ahead, it is your right to do so, but I will not respond unless any comments aimed at me are addressed to me – jambutty.

It won’t surprise me if one or two members go out of their way to use any name but jambutty. If they do I can only conclude that they like ‘talking’ to themselves.