Originally Posted by
teecee
Quite clearly from your response you didn't read the post at issue here, LOL, trying to tell me what I did or didn't read. Come off it. I guess if I am ever drunk/take roofies one night and forgetful the next day I can just message you and you can tell me what I got up to that night as well? While I don't have a photographic memory I know Don Corleone made specific mention to Zac Butcher bringing the sport into the "21st century" (note the quotation marks, I bet my life on that) That bit was certainly on the topic of the thread, whereas in post#9 you categorically said Dons post was in "no way any type of response to the issue". Well sorry, but does saying congrats to Zac for bringing the sport into the 21st century constitute being on topic? I think so. Again I don't have access to the post to go on any further than this. nor do you understand its significance. This has nothing to do with moderators or specifically me. You're right, I bit into this thread after Neil's post. I hope you arent seeing this as an anti Teecee thing. It is a case of impugning someone's charcter directly rather than the views they may hold. He expressed an opinion.(not fact but opinion) His right.
I expressed my opinion on the topic.(not fact but opinion) my right.
In quoting my opinion in his response he directly responded to my opinion.(attached my post).
This response had nothing to do Get your hand off it Teecee with the issue being debated, whether my opinion was flawed or otherwise.
It was a direct attack on my personal character.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. If you dont like an opinion offered you can challenge it with facts or conversely offer your own opinion.
It's not appropriate to attack a person because their opinion differs from yours. I have tried to make the point many times on this forum.
Attack the issue not the person. Some people have recognised and taken the message on board. If I seeposts which attack the person rather than the issue and I believe them to be malicious in nature I will delete them.
You may believe that you read something placid today but down the track have a falling out over some other unrelated issue.
What you read on the forum may give you ground to act against the forum.
You think this unlikely and I'm scaremongering eh? Yes, 1 poster on a forum when there is, a conservative estimate, hundreds of forums operated in NZ. Pretty unlikely I would say. So while as you outlined the legalities within this post I respect those and appreciate the job you and other mods do on this forum, but seeing as you bought the likelihood up lets not kid ourselves of the chances of that happening here.
Well it has happened, Is happening today,.. )a case of what's written on a forum like this is a current defamation case before the NZ High Court) and surely can happen in the future.
As Neil said in post no 6 above.
Finally If you read it and "didn't see much in it" and "I see you as deeply disturbed" (your opinion with no factual basis), an opinion not shared by my legal adviser.