Apols me old fruit, it was your quote about 'outrageous silencing' - I had assumed (maybe wrongly) you meant blanking by putting on ignore - I function that sadly I have started to use for reasons stated. Apart from Mods removing people from threads I hadn't noticed any other form.
i meant shouting down of folk - I've seen the perpetrators of that then congratulate themselves and their fans/helpers for the silencing. Plus telling folk in the forum that they are going to be reported, very often for no good reason. Reminds me of damn primary school. Worse still the gratuitous reports sometimes get the ear of teech.
All of which is very sad I think - most of all for the reporters/silencers, who then in the calm of night may sometimes wonder why not just the bad bits of cchat (luckily a very small area) but the country is these days so divided. Folk not listening to each other.
I also thank my lucky stars that I don't share an office/club or whatever with some of these folk - for they delight in small worlds they feel they can control/reign over. Worlds where their co-habitees cannot just walk and pedal away.
On the positive side, NACAs provides a pit for the small group to exercise themselves in with little damage to wider society.
