You’re at risk of acting like those you are criticising.
I guess it’s what social media is all about?
A fair note of caution there, NI.
To be fair .. I managed to avoid most of the heated stuff. My only real Social media is on here and I live away from the town. I don’t see Simon as much more than a passionate fan who has wanted to believe the best ..probably knows he’s been duped and may have made some errors of judgment. We need passionate fans.
Some of the other cited behaviour sounds criminal to me. However, being a teenager or just being immature shouldn’t mean ‘banning for life.’ That’s where we start to get into the territory NI warns against.
My aim has been not to get drawn into the partisan exchanges … a bit like knowing when to withdraw from a row. Things get said ..even done ..in the heat of the moment which only deepen the problems. Perhaps the most irritated I got was the relentless ‘exposures’ of Interested Bystander. I know that he was seen as a valuable contributor. I recognise that he has been largely vindicated. What irked me was the sense of a personal grievance that was never explained and would not know when to stop. If we carry that same intensity forward in the fan base then the ‘legacy’ we give to Peter Swann and David Hilton will be months ..even years .. of toxic exchanges and a disunited fan base.
