5 August (Part 2) - Still here
As you will have noticed, Bonkers is still on line despite the Stop Go Ape
(SGA) people asking my web host to take it down.
Just to be clear the hosting company has not asked me to change anything, all
they said was that re-posting the SGA Group’s Facebook
announcement slagging me off for describing
a random crowd waiting for a bus as a Gaggle was causing stress or distress
(I forget exactly what they said) to their Administrator.
I am puzzled, and maybe the webhost is too, by the suggestion that publishing
their criticism of me to SGA’s 300 followers on Facebook is stress free but
repeating it on Bonkers merited legal threats because the author was distressed
by it. Self publication is something to laugh about but re-publication is shaming. It defies logic.
The hosting company made no comment on the allegation that I had ‘stolen’ a Facebook comment referencing myself.
Illogical though the SGA leaders may be I have
no wish to cause any vulnerable person stress so I modified
the ‘offending’ page somewhat. In order to protect my sources
I had implied that I stumbled across SGA’s Facebook comments accidentally which
was I think interpreted as me having hacked into their Private Group.
In fact it was sent to me by a Member of their Group who presumably found the
Administrator’s glee about having a go at me somewhat distasteful. Obviously I
do not really care if someone has failed to check the word Gaggle in a
dictionary but it did seem worthwhile to give BiB readers some idea of who they might be supporting.
The SGA GoFundMe page
is struggling. Think twice before you donate to it.
5 August (Part 1) - Bigger but not necessarily better
As a concession to
the almost blind reader who requested a larger font for blog
paragraphs the size used for viewing on a phone in portrait mode was
increased yesterday but this led to it being bigger than when viewed in
landscape mode so as of today that is a bit bigger too. This led to increases for
Tablets and Desktops, in fact everything other than on an Ultra HD TV screen
where the text should be more than big enough already.
Personally I am not too keen on the changes so if you feel the same please say so. (†)
The foregoing only applies to text within paragraphs and not headings and captions etc.
and will not take effect until the browser cache refreshes.
† Subsequently making the larger text bold looks a lot better to my eye, so it will probably stay that way now.