If you're referring to Toasty Jon, I don't recall him being ganged up on. That was him and me, mano a sexpat. Most spectators seemed fairly neutral, applauding skill in a non-partisan way, but chiefly concerned that the match should go 15 rounds at least.
He also brought it all on himself, by starting the row and then following me to continue it on a new thread once the original thread was closed. It died down a few times and was quiet for a day or two, then he deliberately re-started it.
As for jibes and lavatory humour and so on, unfortunately not everyone likes to engage in reasoned debate. They will make a post, have it demolished in reply, and refuse to answer or even acknowledge this. They repeatedly post falsehoods that are the complete inversion of the truth, no matter how many times these falsehoods are exposed.
At that stage they have demonstrated that they are barbarians with no regard for the rules of civilised debate. Well, so be it.
So I don't think it is fair to use this case (if that is whom you are referring to). He has a commercial agenda and should stick to that, rather than petulantly pursuing vendettas against other members (unprovoked I might add). I don't mind it particularly if someone does pursue an unprovoked vendetta against me, so long as I am allowed to deal with them. But this shouldn't be categorised as people ganging up on another member. He initiated the situation unprovoked, asked for everything he got, ignored repeated opportunities for it to end, and as a commercial member was extremely lucky that the record of his behaviour was deleted.
