As Voltare said, when the argument is long, both sides are wrong.
Since you seem to only see one side, I am going to tell you about the other for a moment.* I do not, however support either, so don’t be like oldscratch ad say honest people can’t disagree. *(It demeans us both, oldscratch!)
Show_biz was not engaging in mod bashing by complaining about Alphagene.
Alphagene goes out of his way constantly to insult people and make his name as “the angry, sullen mod”. Fine, he’s welcome to the “honor”. But then when people recognize it, accept it.
Lynn does not find insulting pet names to pepper her serious posts with, nor TubaDiva. They can discuss rationally.
Nor does it do any good to the honor of mods when they don’t accept legitimate opinions about whether their “sock war” is a) important or b) producing the intended results.
It seems to me there is an honest difference of opinion there.
And it doesn’t help the furthering of honest debate to say only the people who speak out don’t agree with you.
When you say 10,000 people agree with you, a fair percentage of them know you are lying.
When you say disagreeing with one mod contention of fact make you anti-mod and anti-board, that’s a transparent lie and you will be caught in it.
Oldscratch provides the chilling notice that any disagreements, no matter how minor or passing will make someone ask for you to be banned.
Oldscrach, don’t think for a moment that you haven’t convinced some people of the irony the people who always call for banning are the ones that should be banned.
Now, I want both sides here to admit that there can be honest differences of opinion here as in every other question on the board. There is no call, no call whatever, to escalate, to try to cast one argument as making one anti-board or anti-sock or anti-trollhunt or anti-anything.
There are NEVER just two sides to an argument. No two people agree on everything.
And sometime, when you try to separate the greys into black and white, that is just dishonest, and you’ll find both black and white are now lies.