Most of us write into forums because we enjoy it and we trust those controlling the forums.  Ozpolitics has a forum moderated by a person who believes he has the right to manipulate and change a persons post.  Even on request - Deepthought has refused to delete a post and continually rewritten my post in his own words.

Is this how a decent forum should be run?  Does a person have the right to ask for his/her post to be deleted by the moderator, but instead have the request ignored and fraudulently rewritten in the moderator's own words.

Deepthought - you may believe you are a good moderator - but you are breaking all forum rules by your actions.  Whether or not you are trying to destroy Freediver's credibility is another matter - but you have no right to humiliate any poster publicly by using their name to reproduce your posts.

Is this how a decent forum should be run? 

I didn't hear you b!tching when Oceans was deleting all and sundries posts at any opportunity.

You have got to be the biggest hypocrite around Mantra- you show more of your true self everyday. It's rather distasteful.

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As a matter of fact I did IQ - obviously you've got a selective memory,  but I didn't post here much at the time, so obviously didn't see everything that was going on.  Although what I saw was mainly inappropriate and if Auz_gurl deleted those posts she answered to the consequences.  Did she alter your posts by the way IQ?  No only you and DT alter the words of others.

DT - I couldn't give a stuff whether you demanded I write something in particular - you're not a lawmaker.  Yes I shouldn't have posted on your crass thread - my mistake, but I still requested you to delete my post, which you didn't.

You had no right to misuse my post in the manner you did.  I had every right to say what I thought - I wasn't being abusive - I found the thread offensive and it was my right to say so.

As a moderator,  and at my request - your duty was to delete my post - but instead you altered it to suit your own agenda leaving a misleading and inappropriate (by my terms) post on there under my name.

Quite frankly IQ & DT your opinion means nothing as far as whether you think I have a sense of humour or not, obviously I do at times, but WHEN IT SUITS ME.  If you two want to roll in the gutter together by all means do, just don't drag me into it.

Yes DT - maybe I shouldn't post here and I doubt I will for much longer if your behaviour as moderator is condoned by the administrator of this forum.  You shouldn't even be a moderator - you have no sense of fairness generally and have an obsessive nature.

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Is this a rational statement?   Obviously I would accept responsibility for my post if you hadn't changed it fraudulently, so it no longer consisted of my words.  

mantra wrote on Mar 15^th, 2008 at 5:39pm:



I say.  I expect you will realise you are a bit hypocritical calling me obsessive?  Who's the dude who has posted a bunch of posts complaining about a fart thread which clearly spelled out it was a fart thread, and who's the dude who even complained in the fart thread that what was said would happen, actually happened?

If you don't like the thread an adult would not have posted in it.  Have you seen me posting in threads complaining about the thread I am contributing to?  If the thread is of no interest to me I have the option to be an adult and let those who are interested in it enjoy it unmolested.

And farting is not exactly in the gutter.  Do you fart?  Does anyone you know fart?  Are you aware of what a fart is?

And if you choose to resist posting because someone posted a thread about farts and you spat the dummy perhaps you should.  Perhaps you need a forum you can dictate to.  A forum where people have to do what you say. Is there a Greeny forum especially for people with God complexes?

mantra wrote on Mar 15^th, 2008 at 5:56pm:


No. Take responsibility for your actions and the consequences.  It's character building.


Incidentally stop being hypocritical, you said this

mantra wrote on Mar 15^th, 2008 at 5:39pm:



But you also said this

mantra wrote on Mar 14^th, 2008 at 7:04am:


Now unless you call your family and friends idiots I suspect you used "idiots" as an abusive term.  Stop being immature mate, it's unseemly in a grown up.  But you have proven your leftard roots.  You have proven me right.  I told you that in my experience leftoids inevitably resort to insult and you disagreed.  I'm right aren't I.

DT - you're a bully - plain and simple.  Say whatever you want, but as far as I'm concerned and no doubt others who read this - you are being allowed to harrass posters and get away with it.

I did not liken you to an idiot until the 3rd time you made alterations to my post.

If that's the worst that has been said to you, then you are lucky.  

Your attitude is very intimidating DT - whether you're aware of that fact or not.  No-one should feel this helpless on a community forum and post something and then have it changed without permission.  Obviously you've had a free reign here for a very long time - to do whatever you want, say whatever you want, monopolise these forums with pages and pages of useless, repetitive quotes and unsubstantiated material - even fraud.  You don't even wait for an answer from anyone before you proceed with your multiple posts. 10 posts from DT to every response.

I am not taking responsibility for something that I didn't say.  You are a serious liability to Ozpolitics.

The only serious liability I see here is you Mantra because you fail to read the written word and you fail to take responsibility for your own actions.

Maybe you should try and learn from your obvious failings rather than trying to change the rules to suit yourself and place the blame on the moderator when clear rules were set out from the beginning?

Are you dyslexic or retarded? Maybe that would be ok for DT to delete your post on compassionate grounds?

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Aren't you the one who modded with gay abandon and deleted posts all over the shop?  Just what are you talking about Oceans?