Free Speech & Opinions - Thank God For Blogs

This week I was banned from a poker forum!

The whys & wherefores are plain to see in that this particular forum didn't like opinions that went outside its remit which was to provide for fluffy talk on a variey of subjects where threads would last forever with the under-18 moderators all sucking upto one another and its friends.

God help you if you disagreed with a posting or had the audacity to question the original poster. No sireee. It wouldn't be long before the 'mod' police were onto you with its usual 'Ello...Ello...Ello..what have we here' attitude.

One recent poster had someone with the begging bowl out for wanting to be backed at a soon to be held poker festival. Me, and one or two others, objected to the post as we felt that it had no place on the forum. Turns out the person concerned was 'good friends' with one of the 'mods' and the post was allowed to stand but uh oh...here came the 'mod cops...nee naw...nee naw...nee naw' questioning our rights to question THIER forum postings.

I then put up a post asking that the moderators put up rules regarding the behaviour of posters. This was terminated by the high command of the forum on the basis that 'all this misbehaviour' was bad for the forum.

And so it came to pass...I was banned. The first post I posted on this particular forum asked if anyone would like to receive a free book on poker. I was immediately attacked as being 'up to no good'.

Its a very sad state of affairs when people who have their own playground take the keys from you and then stomp their feet and throw all the toys out of the pram when they lose an argument.

I won't name the sad little people that did this cos I ain't finished with them yet and as I said in my title...thank god for Blogs!!