Comments on: Hooray.

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:42:38 +0000

And there was me thinking that you were the manic meddler…http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml...

By: Manic

Manic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:11:51 +0000

Responses: Dale's decision to introduce registration greatly reduces the potential for anonymous attacks against anyone, including you. It also makes them easier to police.Blogroll: I explained quite clearly that my stance on sock-puppeting conflicting with yours was whwat prompted your removal from my blogroll. I could not speak out against the use of sock-puppets while carrying a link to someone who thinks its OK and does it on a regular basis. You may note that you have not been banned from commenting all this time.ID: Blogger allows you to create multiple weblogs on a single account.Issues: We all have them.

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:55:00 +0000

I have not forgotten, it was not my comments that were the problem but some of the responses.It was your decision to remove the link to my blog, note I did not remove mine to either you or Iain Dale's. Therefore, I feel that my honour is intact.There was no JHL reference on my blog attacking John Reid when he was Home Secretary, in that sense it was anonymous. However, it was an open secret. I recall leaving a comment on Bob Piper's and he asked whether I was the real John Reid, I made no secret it was me in my reply. Bob amended his blog roll to add (spoof). As with Ironed Sardine (I'm still proud of the anagram), I emailed Bob to claim authorship and not to worry. I don't know why he chose not to inform you, I just assumed he would pass the message on. I was wrong on that score. I still feel that you were miffed about being left out of the loop.It takes me all my time to run JHL's blog and the legal and political challenges to set up any other blogs. Now and again I come up with a good idea for a name, but not enough to create a full identity and blog and I have difficulty remembering all the passwords etc anyway.My two big issues at the moment are prisoners votes and Titan Prisons. I am disappointed that the Left is not more supportive of these issues.

By: Manic

Manic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:01:11 +0000

It's a big gripe for a reason, JHL. And though Iain didn't admit it at the time, I was essentially banned for complaining about anonymous abuse. It was a big issue for you on his site, too IIRC.Let's accept self-interest as a possible factor, though. I'm entirely ready to believe that Iain can finally see what I'm been bitching about for years now. Take for example what happened over his Ross/Brand post:http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2008/10/sock...A rare 'lefty' sock-puppet has also unwittingly been helping things along by being such an obvious multi-faced troller that he simply could not escape attention.On that note, JHL, perhaps I can coax out of you a pledge to stick to a single identity when commenting or creating sites in future. I'd love to be able to return to you my blogroll.

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:26:23 +0000

Tim: It is just that we were not banned for leaving comments and the comment registration thing to me seems irrelevant. Even if this is one of your big gripes. I appreciate Iain trying to clean up his act. I cannot help feeling given the underhandedness before that there may be an ulterior motive.

By: Manic

Manic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:32:26 +0000

No, JHL. I think he's quite sincere and deserves a fair shot at it.There are many things that Iain and I will never agree on, but he stopped being a major priority from the moment he switched registration on. Now the only sock-puppeting sewer belongs to Staines. There'll prob. be a post about that shortly.Tom: It's on the other side of this field of thorns(gestures)

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:15:30 +0000

Tim: Not in Hull, it rains Datsun Cogs (the old ones are the best). Do you reckon he's up to something?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:32:45 +0000

*applause*Now where's my bouquet of roses from Gilligan?

By: Manic

Manic — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:26:16 +0000

It just keeps raining puppies, doesn't it?

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:03:19 +0000

Iain Dale has emailed me to say that you and I are no longer on the banned list.