Madeleine McCann - why are people so obsessed?

[Mr Gray]

As usual you are in feet first without reading and understanding the post.
EBBOM

I understood the post...it seems you don't understand your own post.....seems I understood it well as Brietta made a similar comment

[Alice Purjorick]

I understood the post...it seems you don't understand your own post.....seems I understood it well as Brietta made a similar comment

It is such a shame you were both wrong then isn't it? And for approximately the same reason

[Mr Gray]

It is such a shame you were both wrong then isn't it? And for approximately the same reason

would you like to point out how we are both wrong re your reference to "mild criticism"....as we both pointed out...mild criticism is not the problem...you are wrong ...best just admit and move on rather than continual wriggling

[Alice Purjorick]

What view is that Alice?  I was under the impression that there was more than two people on here who had a somewhat low opinion of the McCanns and who enjoyed making known their doubts.

There probably are.
I don't recall slagging off the McCanns in my posts.

[Alice Purjorick]

would you like to point out how we are both wrong re your reference to "mild criticism"....as we both pointed out...mild criticism is not the problem...you are wrong ...best just admit and move on rather than continual wriggling

Go back and read the post properly. You both read what you wanted to read not what was written.
But whatever you say Ace it's all the same to me.

[Mr Gray]

Go back and read the post properly. You both read what you wanted to read not what was written.
But whatever you say Ace it's all the same to me.

perhaps you just expected to get away with BS

[Alice Purjorick]

perhaps you just expected to get away with BS

You are leading with your chin again I see.
Don't judge others by yourself or whatever it says in Romans.

[Mr Gray]

You are leading with your chin again I see.
Don't judge others by yourself or whatever it says in Romans.

the lady doth protest too much methinks  ...except you are a bloke

[Alfred R Jones]

There probably are.
I don't recall slagging off the McCanns in my posts.

I don't recall saying you had.

[carlymichelle]

You are leading with your chin again I see.
Don't judge others by yourself or whatever it says in Romans.

davel is a prime example of being obsessed with the mcanns

[Mr Gray]

getting back on topic, the posting of pure BS by Alice has made me realise why people are obsessed...it's not so much with the McCanns as just obsessed with posting online in general.

In the real world its necessary to say something intelligent to earn respect and have people listen to you. In the virtual world any idiot simply has to say the McCanns are shit parents. The poster will then be applauded as a genius and immediately gains a whole gang of friends who patiently wait for his next gem. So the person who in the real world is a right plonker can easily achieve celebrity status online.

[Mr Gray]

davel is a prime example of being obsessed with the mcanns

see my thread above

[Anna]

Please refrain from using insults in posts and adhere to the topic of discussion. Thank you.

[Lyall]

The value of being a member of a forum such as this one which prides itself in allowing debate of differing viewpoints cannot be overestimated.
It is valued all the more if you have been on the receiving end of one which just does not tolerate diversity.

Innocently, I started posting around October 2013.

If you want to experience censorship and abuse of all kinds in the raw just nip over to a McCann board on Yahoo and post a mildly supportive comment regarding Madeleine' parents ... I guarantee the jaws of Hell will open for you.

Not only were we obliterated, our profiles were hacked, avi's taken and adulterated comments attributed to us.

It certainly was a learning curve of exactly the unscrupulous and wicked techniques adopted by those with a seemingly inbuilt antipathy to Madeleine and her family ... when one watches the counter on a post being thumbed down before one's eyes just as a demonstration ... it is instructive.  I stopped counting at 89.

I realised that people who were so intent on allowing no comment but their own to stand are a big problem.

So without the immediate attack I experienced and the nasty content of the posts which really sickened and disgusted me; if I hadn't followed links to mind numbing, intelligence insulting HiDeHo videos; I would probably have made a couple of posts and moved on, still blissfully ignorant.

So that is the root of my 'obsession' ... you could probably call it freedom of speech.

No-one has ever been allowed to dictate how I will think ... I make up my own mind based on the evidence available to me ... so if that is obsessive ... so be it.

McCann board on Yahoo? What they they? Do you mean the comments under articles?

[Lyall]

getting back on topic, the posting of pure BS by Alice has made me realise why people are obsessed...it's not so much with the McCanns as just obsessed with posting online in general.

In the real world its necessary to say something intelligent to earn respect and have people listen to you. In the virtual world any idiot simply has to say the McCanns are shit parents. The poster will then be applauded as a genius and immediately gains a whole gang of friends who patiently wait for his next gem. So the person who in the real world is a right plonker can easily achieve celebrity status online.

Do you agree the action Sky News took has made this much worse?