Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
There's a big difference here I think between bond21, SW\BLE and Rodgie and pretty much all others - everyone recognises that they're dickheads of the highest order and no-one was sorry when they were removed (in SW\BLE's case every time he's removed). Even the likes of Fiery and Murphy, who're gone and few suggest that their being gone for good is the wrong decision, they had those who liked them. So therefore besmirching them after they're gone doesn't seem quite right, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with it with the case of bond21 etc. It's basically acknowledged in human society that the likes of them are lowlifes, and those types deserve whatever crap anyone says about them, to their face or behind their backs.sledger's banning is the mods decision & right, talking **** about him while he's not here doesn't seem quite right, though I guess it's happened with other posters, probably been guilty of it myself (BLE for example, and your good self with bond21, everyone with Rodgie).
And certainly there's a difference between those who've been perm-banned (or perminantly or apparently perminantly departed of their own volition) and those who're on any length of temporary absence. I've possibly been guilty of besmirching those who I know are to return at some point (obviously many have been equally guilty of doing that to me during my own absences) but it really does smack of trying to grab what opportunity is there while it's there.
The fact that the types who are likely to attempt to besmirch sledger are by nature likely to be types who I have a very low opinion of ITFP, though, is the overwhelmingly important matter. To see those who you consider poor types throwing mud at your mates is particularly deplorable.