Theo Saar: That was not the only incident that took place. Another time, one poster wanted a book which I found to be in our university library. By the way this was when I was under my real name. So I told him here on the forum that I would get it for him from the library. This was a book regarding Pakistan. So I checked the book from the library portal and went to the stacks to get it. This is one of the top three or four libraries in the US and the stacks are huge. Undergrads are no allowed into the stacks. Usually not too many people are in the stacks as different colleges have their libraries. Either the library staff can get the book for you or if you are in a hurry you can go int get it yourself. Since the circultaion desk people were busy and I had been to the stacks several times already, I decided to get it myself. When I got to the shelf of the call number, all the books in that shelf were on the ground in a heap. The stacks are usually quite empty at that time. I was scared sh*tl*ss. Nevertheless I rooted around a little bit in the pile and found the book I was after and almost ran out.
Yes there are some Pakistanis or people with agendas on this forum as is true with any other forum on the net.
My feeling is that as long as I was member of good standing at BRF, I was not threatened openly. Once Sri Arun_S ji, being a mod, made a personal attack on me, the Pakistani opposition felt it is OK to start their own intimidation.
Speaking for myself, I do not like to hide behind a pseudonym. I want to be open about my views, but I learnt a lesson the hard way that there are some people out there who, being drunk on power, want to bully others.
It is a truism that mods' actions of a forum have consequences for posters of the forum. It is especially so if the posters are posting under their real names. It is understandable that mods do not post under their real names.
Unfortunately that sets up an information asymmetry. Mods know - approximately - who the posters are yet the posters do not knowing who the mods are. That is the downside of a moderated forum.
Well, one has to live with it. It is not always fair. Not necessarily
