Mate the history and animosity seems to be quite deep. Becomes monotonous and boring - almost to the point of "systamatic bullying". Not pretty - but im sure @bonobashi can handle it....
It's more rank hypocrisy that gets the goat of people there . While one can't deny the no of devotees of Modi , who take umbrage over anything containing a whiff of what they would perceive as disparaging of their diety , including out here , the past two years have had a sobering effect on them .
Out here , it's his back handedness , disparaging comments , undermining of opposing points of view , attempted browbeating & bullying , holier than thou attitude all while claiming the high ground for better discourse and higher standards on this forum while ignoring and providing cover to ideologically aligned members who can be categorized as trolls just as there are RW trolls out here .
But this isn't exclusively why he's despised . Most of the so called " Dirty Dozen " and others out here , passive observers perhaps who've yet to become members or actively contribute out here apart from many members who're still on PDF have had first hand experience or witnessed episodes where he's entrapped members on PDF , while getting into slanging matches with them or censuring their comments with negative marks - one of the privileges he enjoyed over there , getting such inconvenient members infractions issued courtesy friendly moderators or ganging up with exclusively Pakistani members to harangue members who refused to be cowed down , forcing infractions and possible bans , just because they happened to have an opposing point of view .
And I'm not bringing up the issue of certified trolls here of whom there were quite a few our there who contributed nothing of value - the bane of any forum .
I challenge anyone out here who's been witness to such disgraceful and disgusting behaviour by someone considered as "mature and knowledgeable " as the member in question , to dispute my statement .
To an ordinary Indian member this was a double whammy . On the one hand the atmosphere there was hostile to begin with given the usual state of affairs between the two inimical nations , facing as they were an overwhelmingly hostile Pak membership apart from the Bangladeshis and of late a legion of Chinese members equally hostile , biased moderators and then to make matters worse this member who'd turn on his compatriots . Now I'm referring to sane and sober posters not the low quality ones or the trolls out there .
There were other Indian title holders there too some of whom are present here and can match this member in terms of sheer knowledge but have you ever wondered why's it they're never in the line of fire out here , however much they disagree with opposing points of view .
I must recount an interesting incident I happened to witness first hand on PDF which involves the afore said member a few years ago. There was this thread (I forget the topic ) on which the discussions veered around to the Prophet . This was around the time SHEIKH Haseena dismissed one of her ministers for blaspheming . The gist of what that minister said was that he considered the Prophet to be running an organised gang centred around extortion of pilgrims to Mecca by taking advantage of their piety just as the Quraish had done before him by prescribing Haj as one of the pillars of Islam .
Smart Alec here said something similar couched in less offensive and obtuse language till a perceptive member - a Pakistani called him out and challenged him . What happened after that was memorable . Our esteemed member here started passing out stones from his backside . Perhaps all those visions of being issued infractions , getting banned , losing his privileges apart from his standing , etc came across just as a man going out of this world has in his final moments his life flash across before his eyes . What followed was highly amusing - He issued fervid explanations , deleted his own posts , amended others all while claiming to have the highest respect for all religious figures particularly the Prophet . Now , apart from the fact he's a self declared atheist and like all atheists has a dim view on religion apart from religious figures , had any reactionary Indian member posted it , he would've immediately censured such a post with a negative mark apart from calling such an infraction out loud , to curry favour with the mob out there .
It's this hypocrisy , which casts a cloud over his knowledge and sheer grasp over certain subjects , which his detractors here detest - something that's mutual but something which he can't do much about , much to his despair .
