A Letter To Any Newshound Mod That Wanders By:

I'll post this here knowing full well it won't stay on the mains for it's off topic, AND if I wrote it in a letter or PM it wouldn't get read or be addressed.

Whatever you may think of me is fine I really don't care but I do think it's more than a bit unfair when I have to come here and read comments that I have made in other places that are often taken out of context, edited, or in some cases flat out not even my own and knowing that If I address the person leaving these comments it's me who will be called out by a mod for "baiting" a troll. This policy is absurd.

We as regulars can not "engage" a troll under any circumstances and they in turn can use our names and leave comments that are taken out of context or in some cases flat out lies? Think about how stupid this policy is.

Yes what has been left all over this board tonight were my words. But what wasn't posted were the reason I made those comments. Taken out of their context they make it look as if I were telling the moderators here F-You. (and believe me there is one or two I have) but in this case what I was saying is that in my opinion this is what the moderator in question is
saying to her readers.

I will not stop saying the things I say on my blog. I have that right. Sometimes I say things that in hindsight I wish I wouldn't have, other times I say things and I stand by the words more today than I ever have, but in any case I DO NOT think it's fair that what I say gets posted here by somebody else without either a mod to say "this wasn't The Count who posted this", or the right to answer for myself against such posts. This is just yet another reason Others and myself have been vocal against the way this board has been moderated.

Thank You.

Count Istvan

Stephen