Nasty Clique

[Canary42]

It appears to me that whenever Gulliver starts a thread, a small clique then join together in discussing, not the subject of the OP, but the personality of Gulliver, usually in a fairly unpleasant manner.

I would have thought this was in contravention of a site rule (The User has used rude, abusive or generally unpleasant language.) but the Mods never seem to react adversely.  Could it be because they favour the clique - no surely not, I don't believe it.

[Prudie]

It's funny how differently we all perceive things. I've not contributed but I have read daily all year. Gulliver has been incredibly protected by the mods and site (probably because his constant rubbing your nose in it threads attract traffic).

As for the past, even the great and good were never nice to everybody. All  the regulars were nasty to people at some point in time. You'd have to be blind to have missed it.

[Peter Pedant]

I like Gullz

[tomus42]

Some mods join in on the abuse (with their I'm a regular AB user hat on of course), so it's no surprise they do nothing to stop it.

[ynnafymmi]

Methinks gulliver,like me,like Hymie,like TCL,like Khandro,like 3T,like a lot of the controversial characters on this site,we bring a lot of interest to this site.We arent going nowhere any time soon.Tell your friends.Everyone tell your friends.AnswerBank is the place to be.

[andres]

Gully is a wind-up merchant of the first order. He knows exactly how to wind people up and is probably sitting at home right now  and enjoying all the comments. 

[Peter Pedant]

a lot of what he says is true. 

mone is a profiteer or boris is a damned liar is not exactly rocket science - let alone troll-speak

 

 

[Jarg]

Nothing changes here does it?

All that happens is things go round in circles.

[Peter Pedant]

well it is  a talking shop

none of us are going to invent a nuclear-magnetic drone.....

or bring world peace to the er world

[royfromaus]

There are many ABers who think that gully is an idiot but those same ABers indulge him time and time again.

What does that make them?

 

[Deskdiary]

All very worthy sycophantic fawning BS, but the fact remains if Gulliver actually debated instead of lobbing non-sequiturs and mostly (I said mostly before the fauners pile in) baseless comments and lies, people would have more respect and would engage in debate with him.

I cannot recall a single instance of Gulliver joining in a debate and providing a robust counter-argument...or any counter argument much less a robust one.

In the Wetherspoon thread NJ utterly destroyed him, but rather trying to counter the destruction he simply posts something which wasn't true.

This is why people get frustrated, although fair game play he does produce traffic on this dying site.

[Pete65]

A good post by Canary42.

The sheer nastiness of some of the posts towards Gulliver1 should justify action by the Eds or mods, in my opinion.

[gulliver1]

Retrocop 20.15 "we are expected to swallow this stupidity from a witless clown"... As I have said before retro, if you want to address  a witless clown ....Try talking into a mirror.