They Shoot Horses Don't They !

Hi carbo......long time no see ! I thought I should put the record straight about my 'pal' canuck otherwise known as Dr J. I have stayed silent over this until now.

Dr J arrived on DCUK and after a few innocous posts made a comment about the only way to control Diabetes was to eat little or no carbs and high levels of fat.

As both myself and Sue were successfully low carbing but for various reasons stuck to a low fat diet as well I told him what we did. He immediately started to tell us that this was unsustainable and implied that we must be lying and that I must be using excessive amounts of alcohol !!

Yes, I took great exception to that as I am not in the habit of lying and I consume a couple of pints of Guinness a week, not every week. I took him to task about this and he then made a post which repeated the allegations. At no time did he ever ask what both sue and I did, he just assumed we were weight stable and therefore we couldn't possibly sustain our method of control. His post was offensive and he edited it before we had a chance to copy it. He also made some disparaging remarks about moderation and started to quote rules to us. In accordance with the stated policy on DCUK we decided to suspend him for 7 days so that he could think about his manner of posting, which was both arrogant and rude. He was duly suspended for that reason and we would have allowed him back at the end of the suspension.

We later found that he then posted on a blog criticising both of us and also DCUK. Making quite a fuss about it all. We then decided to make the suspension a permanent ban as it was apparent he had deliberately targeted both of us in an attempt to discredit us. Something we were not going to tolerate.

We then had the spectacle of Benedict, the weak and PC 'support team' member make a grovelling apology to the said Dr J !! Benny boy had been trying to tell us how and what we should post for some time and this was just a culmination of the different style that we had compared to him.

The rest is history, we were kicked out as monitors, and I was later suspended for 7 days. That was the final straw for me and for sue, we asked for our accounts to be deleted as our posts were being 'micro managed' and we felt it was an untenable situation.

We no longer post on DCUK and have no plans to go back there. Whatever we post is not good enough for Benny and the lacklustre new mods, with just a couple of exceptions. A sad state of affairs after all the work we did to make the place a safe and informative place for ALL Diabetics......

There's a lot more I could say about many things but that will do for now.....

Ken (cugila)