Interesting.

I ought to go ask the Great Magus and Emperor Loh just what was the original favour of the Lothlorien BBS. Whatever I had to say in reply to that is (for those who haven’t already noticed), I ain’t Marc Tan – the original sysop and founder of the BBS, and this group of people didn’t just include the original Lothy people. That’s not mentioning a lot of old Lothy people are out of contact and they didn’t bother to join anyway. It’s clearly a different setting with different people at a different time! So quit lamenting about it as if it’s some forlorn dream already!

I also wondered if anyone alone qualifies to define what that favour is. If some people thinks he has an absolute right to rampage free on the forum, and repeatedly issued the threat of ‘leaving the forum’ to that end, I simply felt that allowing this person to make good his threats would be better than subjecting myself to them every few days.

It was not an easy decision to make since I do appreciate all the effort given on his behalf to make the forum a success. I didn’t like the outcome of it at all. However, he isn’t the only person who is allowed to get angry and I definitely didn’t need his approval on what level of moderation is needed in the forum. Call it tyranny and double standards, because all I did was simply telling him to ‘go ahead’ with his threat. [Note: While I did already agree to the creation of multiple IDs originally, I at least expected to have prior notifications of their creation. I simply did not expect anyone to just threaten me with leaving when I expressed a certain level of displeasure for not being informed. Maybe that’s what ‘double standards’ is all about!]

As to to the charge of ‘tyrannical policies and double standards’, my reply to that charge – addressed to the forum – can be seen at the forum posting here. That should also give everyone more or less a brief idea on what I meant by ‘rampage free on the forum’.

As to the comment ‘the place is descending into some form of an anti-government forum with political agitation and more’, I must ask whether a person who said in MSN chat that he has the least of interest in local issues – if not the entire ‘Mordor’ section – and avowed not to post anything there is actually qualified to make such a comment.

As a matter of fact, there are almost few active posters on Lothy now and on last count only 3 people – including I – were the most active posters in the ‘Mordor’ section. 3 person out of 37 registered members of Lothy, and 3 people out hundred of thousands of Singapore Internet users out there – with just a few posts in ‘Mordor’ and those in the ‘Tenth Pit’ section, out of 700 over postings – and the forum is labelled as comparable to soc.culture.singapore or turning into a cesspool similar to it.

I must say I am quite flattered that just a mere 3 posters are capable of helping this incarnation Lothy gain the notoriety of soc.culture.singapore.

Perhaps it’s the beginning of the end to this incarnation of Lothy once again… but no one was really in favour of its survival when it went came online anyway.