That was in the days when the Brexit thread was extremely accessible and noticeable from the main forum. My words were brief, but what I meant was that I would have preferred if politics had been kept away from the electric bike forum. The reasons being that there were many bad words posted and things got very personal, which caused many good contributors to the electric bike stuff to leave the forum entirely. If you look at the posts in this Brexit thread at that time, you will see that a very large number of people from the main forum got drawn into it.
All this was solved when admin more or less hid it. Now, people that come to Pedelecs looking for electric bike info, don't find it, so they don't get drawn in. If you look at who's posting now, you'll see that virtually no new people have found their way here from the Electric bike sections. It's just the same approx 10 people.
Now that my wish has been achieved, and this thread is not corrupting what goes on in the electric bike section, I'm happy. I think admin did a good job.
The threads's whole existence seemed a bit pointless other than being a means to vent off some steam. The facts presented were never going to convince anyone nor influence anything. It never achieved anything other than bad feelings.
Even now, it's toxicity hasn't gone. Look how you're trying to dig up evidence to expose me as a bad person, and trying to twist what I say into the most negative interpretation, like some sort of witch hunt. I'm not a bad person, so that's not going to work, but if it helps you vent off steam from your own problems, then go ahead. It doesn't bother me.
I'd like to remind you Mr Zlatan that in post #20 of that thread, when Tommy said that the Brexit thread should be closed, your name is there with a big fat green tick!
If it adds to my case, I'll give you this quote from Mr Zlatan in the same thread, which pretty well summed up the situation at that time. Note the bit about dual identities. I think you should review some of your posts in the last couple of days Mr Zlatan:
"Expressing opinions on anything is absolutely fine...hijacking sections of a forum, insulting opposing views and then using forum to soap box your own indoctrinations should not be tolerated.
Just for record without flecc ( and Woosh) that thread would have deteriorated even lower. It seems to me some ( including those two) can have civilised discussion with opposing views and agree to disagree. For some on that thread this quality is missing.
Mods should delete and sin bin offending posts, posters. ( Calling all leavers racists, all Tories scum etc etc has no place on forum in any section)
I also suspect there are dual identity posters prevalent on the thread. Mods could stop that.
If there were a poll, I,d vote to close thread. "
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