The lesson here? It does not pay to spew hatred (because you will be reduced to reading postings on the blog when you should be participating and contributing) on to any commentator for whatever reason, becoming territorial in attitude (much like a dog in the manger) on a blog provided by the blog owner for all who visit it to express their opinion on national issues - not personal issues.

There was a commentator in Susan Loone’s blog some time back who goes (and still does) by the handle ‘monsterball’ who behaved like a dog in the manger and mauled almost every poster (local and foreign) who so much as expressed a different opinion to his - becoming personal and insulting at every opportunity. His behavior was somehow tolerated over the years. He was finally booted out and banned from her blog after years of expressions of support for her.

Blog owners through their administrators, of course, would do well to nip the problem in the bud by dealing directly with such recalcitrant commentator before his comments are allowed to taint, trash, and destroy the blog’s reputation with frivolous and irrelevant remarks personal and insulting in nature, especially when it is a blog run by a man long regarded the leader of the opposition in Parliament.

Sometimes especially when gentle persuasion and diplomacy fails to achieve the desired results, it is time to respond more directly as Susan Loone did. What the blog owner is reluctant to do for obvious reasons, the administrator can and should.

AND pass the inform to others.

But even I could see that if someone went so far as to search two years archives to find something, he must be strongly motivated to do so. This poster must have an axe to grind!

poor undergrad just said this to you…perhaps you should let the matter rest?

undergrad2 Says:
December 21st, 2007 (6 days ago) at 12: 20.23

A piece of advice to you, limkamput - if I may. You need to have some humor, and accept the rough together with the smooth. Do not feel like everybody is after your blood i.e. out to prove you’re wrong and they are right. It may appear that way but it is not.

Hello, SPM grade 3 with a P7 or P8 for English. What do you know about the finer nuances of English? A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. If you want to know stuff, I suggest it is important for you to know enough to know the exception and not just the general rule. I hope this is not too difficult for you again. Come to think about it, am I wasting my time here or what with this bunch of losers.

You machai people can’t even see their own irony. You fellows did MORE THAN preventing others from speaking. But of course you can’t feel or see it. What to do, one is bodo, the other “rot to the core” and the last one the “in between people” who will never hesitate to use vulgarities. See, I am very focussed. I did not start all these vulgarities and I hope the moderator is here to watch too.

I think what you meant to say is to let you have your say - and what is your say??

Nobody is preventing you from having your say. Nobody is preventing limkamput from having his say. We don’t know where you’re coming from and where you’re going with your comments.

Scroll up the entire thread if you need to, and tell us where limkamput or anybody else is being prevented from having his say?? Asking the moderator to consider censuring or banning altogether any poster who insists on continuing his tirade against another poster surely is NOT preventing! He is referring to the warning made earlier by the Administrator.

Looks like, you merely want to play agent provocateur for a reason. Wonder what that reason could be. On second thoughts, nobody really cares. Just don’t trash or instigate others to do the trashing for you.