--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > I do a whole lot of standing up for folks who have been > unfairly maligned, more than most here. I've done so for > you a number of times, remember? Yes, you have. Thank you. > > But I continue to not understand why you feel it is important > > for other people to intervene in battles in which they don't > > care to participate. Most of us here, just, "let it go". > > You often don't just "let it go," you know. You just got > done supporting Curtis big-time, for example. (I'll have a > post or two tomorrow on that, because you foolishly took > his word for a number of things that simply weren't true.) > And you're doing your level best to exonerate him in the > very post I'm responding to.
> You, > > pretty much alone, have chose to make this a high profile issue. > > I think it *should be* a high-profile issue in a community > like FFL where posters like Barry and Vaj hang out. And I'm > hardly "alone." Bob Price took serious aim at Curtis not > long ago for castigating Ravi for his attacks on raunchy > and Alex while never saying a word to Barry for his years > of constant attacks on a lot more folks. So did Robin. And > there were a bunch of others who agreed with Bob and Robin > (and me) who dared to speak up for the first time. You've > gotten on Barry's back several times yourself for the way > he disses people. > > > And as I mentioned, I think you have some exposure in this > > quarter. Maybe a lot of exposure. > > Yeah, I think you'd have a lot of trouble backing that up. > No, I don't pick up on every single last unfair attack, but > that isn't what I'm advocating in any case. > Here's what bugged me, and I am sorry to bring it up again. Ravi discusses his New Years Night at the "Mist", where he describes having a 19 year old girl hit him up for drinks, and how the boner in his pants keeps getting harder and harder. Let me say, nothing in that story bothered me. I was rooting for the guy. But Curtis with a sharper eye and higher morals raised a few flags, and suddenly it's Curtis's who is being accused of debauchery, and becomes the victim of out and out slander, the likes of which I don't think we've been privy to here in some time. You raised no objection. When asked by a member if you felt this was appropiate behavior on Ravi's part, you refused to answer the question on the grounds that the question was not phrased properly. Maybe it's just me, but I felt you should have taken a stand, or at least be willing to answer the question one of the first two times it was asked. By the time you did answer it, it had lost any impact.
