Big Sticks and Small Carrots

Bloggerheads: Elle Seymour: a timeline of lies and libel

Scary. Proper scary.

(I’m not going to label this post “New Tories” because it’s not fair on the many honourable right leaning bloggers out there. I normally do it to make a point but it might be better to make it explicit. I would argue that this sort of thing is a problem for the right too. The nasty party image is never going to go away as long as this sort of thing is tolerated. In fact, while I’m certainly not demanding a will-you-condemn-a-thon (© Malky), I do think it would actually benefit right-wing bloggers to publicly disassociate themselves from this sort of behaviour.

I hate using those labels but you hopefully get what I mean.)

Update (Wed. night)

It seems that some of Tim’s comments have now been restored to this thread but not all of them. Matt’s smear remains but Tim’s response has not reappeared.

In another thread, Ellee has continued to suggest that no comments have gone missing and continues to misrepresent, well, just about everything.

Bizarrely, Welshcakes Limoncello chips in back at the other thread to agree with Ellee, despite the fact that W.L. commented directly under one of Tim’s missing comments yesterday (see “Tim’s response” link above). Remarkable.

My reply was still in moderation at lights out. (Humour me, I’ve only recently discovered how easy it is to host images on my shiny new blog.)

There also still appear to be very large gaps in the “dealing with the point” section.

As an aside, you might have noticed that it now looks like I’ve double posted one of my comments on the linked thread. If you care, but mostly just because I’d like to record it, the reason for that double posting is below the fold.

— FOLD—

It wasn’t button bashing. I went to post the comment, got to the “enter the numbers here to prove you’re a real person” bit, then decided to read the comment again before posting it. I pressed back on the browser and that was my mistake. No conspiracy or skullduggery on mine or Ellee’s part. The back button confuses some interwebs.

On reflection, I was happy with the comment but when I tried to post it properly, I got a message saying I’d already posted it. Since I hadn’t filled in the “enter the numbers here to prove you’re a real person” bit, I didn’t think it’d get published. I deleted the words “Given your insatiable curiosity” and reposted the comment and that sorted it out. That second version appeared immediately. Job done. Much later, the earlier version appeared too (presumably when Ellee found it in her spam bin).

Interestingly, OK, not really but anyway, it was the “Given your insatiable curiosity” bit which caused me to hit the back button. It’s from the first line of the About Ellee page: “I have an insatiable curiosity…”. I wondered whether it might sound impolite. On reflection, I couldn’t see any problem with using Ellee’s own words. I’ve tried to be patient and give her the benefit of the doubt but am duty bound to report that I haven’t seen much sign of insatiable curiosity yet.