mantra wrote on Mar 14
th, 2008 at 10:28pm:
I've asked FD to delete my post, but he may not be back on this forum immediately. Could you please delete my post that you've altered. Seriously - I don't want it there anymore. This is the reason I left last time - the posters here just walk all over this forum and trash it and when threads like this are put up it just shows visitors what a low standard of posting is allowed here. If you've got the slightest decency you will do as I ask.
Decency? Why would you post in a thread which says if you don't use the word 'fart' I will add it for you, then complain when I add it for you? Are you the type who moves under a flight path near an airport then complains about the aircraft noise? You are sounding like that type.
I have no intention of deleting anything from the thread. I believe in free speech.
If the word 'fart' is so offensive to you that you must spit the dummy and leave, then farewell to you mantra. I feel sure there may be a forum for narrow minded puritans out there.
I am not a member of the Greens who feels obliged to obey the narrow minded. I believe in freedom of expression which is why I voted Liberal. We believe in freedoms. If you don't want the word 'fart' added to your post then have the good grace to remain out of the thread. After all you did say you found it crass, can you explain why you found yourself posting there? It appears you have deliberately posted there so you can then complain about the inevitable outcome of posting there.
While that may positively establish your credentials as a leftoid, it doesn't indicate anything positive about your obviously manipulative intent . . . .