You know, back in WWASPS Discovery class, they had a little exercise that ran "I'M right! No! I'M RIGHT!, NO, I'm RIGHT!..." repeated endlessly ad in finitum. (to illustrate the futility of mindless, unconstructive bickering).
Against all reason, this forum has essentially degenerated into a variation on this theme. Except here its become: You're 'affiliated' with PURE! No, I'm not!! You're the one 'affiliated' with PURE! NO! YOU ARE AFFILIATED WITH PURE! NO! YOU ARE AFFILIATED WITH PURE, AND HAVE BEEN SINCE BEFORE SUE HAD HER CHILD COMMITTED! NO! YOU WERE AFFILIATED WITH PURE BEFORE SUE'S CHILD WAS BORN. NO! YOU WERE AFFILIATED WITH PURE BEFORE SUE'S HUSBAND EVEN HAD A GLEAM IN HIS EYE!" and so on and so on ad nauseum. (And I do mean NAUSEUM.)
The loathesome ones are playing Ms. B. like a musical saw. Knowing her hot button, they feed her some dough, a few confidential documents, and treat her like a "player" in the W v P case, and then just set her loose on Fornits to do their bidding (perhaps unwittingly, one supposes).
Ginger, their strategy has succeeded in skyjacking virtually the entire WWF Teen Help thread away from abusive behavior mod into a meaningless (and redundant) semantic quibble-fest into the earth-shaking questions of who is feeding documents to whom, and whose name appears on whose mailing list. (Litigants using the media to influence public opinion? I'm shocked! SHOCKED! to discover that such practices could possibly be occuring! After all, this is the INTERNET! Everyone who uses the internet is supposed to be IDEALISTIC!)
Before Christmas, I noted that the posters on this forum are eagerly living down to the puppet masters' low expectations of our collective intelligence. Haven't seen much in the last nine days to dispel that fear.
[ This Message was edited by: scottT on 2004-01-02 20:29 ]