I don’t mind that we have differences; I do mind the continual sniping, which continues even into the new TaP forum. I do mind that your mates spent a huge amount of energy/time muck spreading in my direction; and I mind that you are STILL making out that I am somehow to blame for your forum closing.

I’m a convenient fall guy, who dared to write down what he observed, and was promptly pilloried.

Mr Dixon, surely it is up to me to decide what does me favours. I’m 100% certain that your systematic blaming of me/other nameless individuals does you no favours.

Your forum closed because you wanted it to close. The fact of your employment elsewhere and the timing of the closure = putting two and two together. The problems that your new employer is experiencing are public knowledge.

Now – whatever I have written, or said, you have yet to convince me that the slagging I received is unconnected with my dealing with these issues together as a single piece of news. In fact, Jen is quite clear about this. But, for the umpteenth time, if I was so wrong, why all the fuss?

a. I am sane, not obsessed, and not malevolent, and

b. that since I have not given up and gone away, maybe, just maybe, I am making valid points which deserve more than sarcasm.

Pete: This is not a forum, and you are not being misrepresented here – but I am. When (if) the time comes that you get a public slagging, I will expect that you have the right to be heard.

This is why I feel I should speak: “The last straw? A tantrum of a discussion concerning long-standing common family-friendly forum moderation policies.”

So, Neil is saying that because I asked not to be censored, he threw in the towel ? I really don’t think that is true, and if you persist in repeating it, I will continue to say otherwise.

Neil: “Dean, you are the only person determined to make the sole connection between BritCaster closing and my involvement with PodShow.”

No, I am not, I am a person who wrote it down, and that is all.

and: “I’m not going to address your personal frustrations regarding PodShow.” – that, Neil, is because to do so would expose you. Which despite my article, I have not done…

Jen: Read this: http://teaandpodcasts.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=30&Focus=582#Item_22

This is a quote from the article you wrote for Blogger News Network. Seemed clear enough.
http://www.bloggernews.net/12631/

How many hours have been lost going over the ins and outs of this? Drop it. Onwards and upwards, eh?

Dean, you are the only person determined to make the sole connection between BritCaster closing and my involvement with PodShow. If others are making that assumption, apart from those lifting information from your ‘article’, then point me in that direction.
You’re starting to sound like a man obsessed.

I would have throught you’d be pleased BritCaster forums are closing because that gives you (and others) the opportunity to build a forum community yourselves, be even more actively involved in community goings-on, and whether or not it were based, funded, run by or on the behalf of UKPA is irrelevant – it can only act as positive community PR related to the UK Podcasters Association.

“Plus, although you and others have adamantly denied it, running PodShow is a huge task, fraught with organisational problems, it’s not been 100% smooth, and while I sympathise with the enormity of the task and its demands, you have been running into difficulties with that too, which have had repercussions and created several personal frictions – I write with my own experience of this, and first-hand knowledge of others. I would expect this in any new organisation – but it is foolish to pretend otherwise.”

Any negative responses ought to be seen in this context – and so my article was perfectly fair.

But for the fact that a certain colleague of yours decided to “expose” my article in our new forum, it would have quietly died. If I was so wrong – why all the fuss?