- Nick Wall wrote:
- WARNING - SERIOUS ANSWER COMING UP..
I have stopped using PASOTI and prefer this website for genuine messageboard reasons. I find the debate on here is healthier with a variety of posters. This maybe something to do with the average age on here being older and the increasing linking of PASOTI to the football club ownership. The result of the latter is that dissenters such as Hairy and X Isle are rounded upon by "collaborators". These may well be genuine posters but the suspicion is, based upon events created solely by Mods of Pasoti, that these are merely made up posters who are needed when the debate turns against the clubs message.
This may well be a legacy of the "war" in that Pasoti was mobilised to back Brent's bid, be for or against Ridsdale depending what the mood of the time was, question Buttivant and rightly hound out Heaney. I supported all of this. The result has been though that the people in control liked the power and just can't give it up or now Brent is in place can't allow anyone to criticise anything about the club and the owner.
PASOTI, like Sparksy's commentary, is increasingly Pravda like in its message.
I also prefer the more colourful language and sense of humour, even Jock's Look at some of the Pasoti threads..they are as dull as ditchwater..with equally vacuous replies.
In addition the stitch up of the Trust by prominent PASOTI members is something that I found abhorrent.
There you go....my reasons for cancelling my Pasoti account.
and.........if I wasn't a memeber on this site I would never have read Knecht's post and heard of "Phillip Henry + Hannah Martin" who I spent an enjoyable half hour You Tubing last night.
Cheeky git, and you're the same age as me!
Your reasons are very similar to mine though Nick. Maybe Pasoti is slightly improving in respect to people being allowed to post criticism of the club/team/manager/owner which definitely wasn't the case last year. These posters still tend to get rounded on by the mob on Pasoti, but isn't that what happens on here in reverse?
There are also an increasing number of new accounts that are so obviously multi's it does take the piss out of their statement which reminds posters that multi accounts are not allowed. This only applies to regular posters and not the in-crowd.
The Trust hounding and anonyomus attacks was disgusting and cowardly, and that was all done with the knowledge of the mods and owners of the site, which pretty much tells you where their loyalties lie. James Brent is regarded as some kind of demi-God for buying the club for feck all and selling off anything useful for his own benefit. This would not have been allowed to be done by anyone else other than JB, as the dogs of war would've been released and that great union man and socialist Chris Webb would not have been his right hand man or propaganda minister. For some strange reason the in-crown have thrown all their weight behind JB and have repelled any challengers thus far, and Pasoti has become an extension of the official club website.
Pasoti has become a club for a small number of fans who are all REAL mates. Anyone who is deemed "dangerous" to the Pasoti hierarchy gets the same treatment. People like Grovehill hounded and hounded but he kept his stance up and stood up for himself, so lo and behold some threatening PM's were sent from his account, which he couldn't access at the time strangely
and although the Pasoti mods were questioned and asked to show evidence of these malicious PM's from Grovehill, they haven't seen fit to show the Pasoti public exactly what dastardly deed Grovehill did to earn his ban.
If these threats were made by Grovehill to Chris Webb as claimed, I'm sure Mr Plod would have been despatched to have a word with Grovey, who was actually outed and derided with a stupid nickname by Herr Newell, which related to his job. If anyone else had done a similar thing to someone who didn't want their actual name and occupation known, a ban would've been issued, but Herr Newell, who isn't a mod any longer, just like Daz isn't
has special dispensation to break every rule in the Pasoti handbook.
There have been several instances of ex-Pasoti users who now use this site having their personal details leaked, when the only people who had these details were Pasoti mods. E-mail addresses used to sign up on Pasoti being used by people wanting to start accounts on here with mischief in mind.
There are always people moaning about ATD on Pasoti, but these come from people who do not have first hand knowledge of the dirty tricks used by the usual suspects on Pasoti.
The spoof website ADT. Ten times more disgusting than anything that is posted on here. Set-up by Ian Newell, and he has admitted to that before anyone says that's rumour, aided and abetted by Daz Desmond who is too busy to be a mod on Pasoti
and that paragon of virtue Dane Bunney. The posts on that site were far worse than anything seen on here, with users of this site accused of being slags, whores, junkies, paedophiles etc. plus a picture of a pig being displayed and being said to be the wife of a member of this site! The Pasoti masses who don't like this site turn a blind eye to all of that, yet say the things posted on here are out of order? Doesn't add up does it?
Then there's Argyle Moans on Twitter, gone now of course when awkward questions started to get asked about the identity of the person behind it. As soon as Chris Webb's name was bandied about the account goes up in a cloud of smoke, just like the Deepthroat and Windsor Boy accounts on Pasoti when photographs from Ian Newell's flickr account show him and Chris Webb together in Windsor of all places
And again, Chris Webb no longer posts on Pasoti? Does anyone REALLY believe that ffs? The club president Chris Webb who appeared from nowhere on Pasoti and became it's darling, with the backing of Newell and the other mods. And yet as Trust Leader, an e-mail sent to him in confidence by Rickler, also ends up in Ian Newell's flickr account. Neither of these people have been able to explain that as yet, unlike the dozens of text messages and e-mails with personal information such as a minors medical history, which were all Pasoti business according to Ian Newell
And yes this is the same Ian Newell who was so up in arms with Thai Green for using Chris Webb's son's name in a post, that he sent him a white feather to denote he was a coward.
And yes this is the same young child who was shamelessly paraded in front of the audience at the Guildhall last year and who's photograph and name are displayed for the whole world to see on Greensonscreen? Double standards are the norm with Pasoti and in particular the in-crowd who control it.
When I sent Ian Newell a series of e-mails criticising him for sending Thai Green the white feather message, I get called a stalker who is being reported to the Police because I have private information about Ian Newell? But don't you have private information about dozens of people Ian? Information that has been used for nefarious reasons?
Then Ian Newell who doesn't like private information being kept on people or displayed, somehow has copies of the threatening e-mails his son Mike sent me last Friday, yet had nothing to do with the sending of them? So how did Mike Newell get my e-mail address in order to threaten me Ian?
I could go on about the Private Investigator hired to track me down, by one of the Deepthroat account users, which was set-up by Ian Newell for harmless activites which went on to try and bring down The Argyle Fans Trust after Ian Newell gave people the password to use it anonymously. The Private Investigator who was named by Ian Newell and Chris Webb over and over again because they were disgusted that one Argyle fan could do this to another, and because my mothers address and phone number were shown to Ian Newell on a GT's coach trip.
So disgusted was he that the Private Investigator has been given more column inches on Pasoti and Vital by PL2 Faced, than all of the other candidates put together. Ian Newell was so disgusted by this action that he still chats and sits with these people at games and enjoys Twitter conversations with them both
Something isn't right with all of that, which involves several members of the Pasoti hierarchy, or Superfans as they are affectionately known.
Postey, or PL2 Faced as he is now dubbed for trying to slur Graham Clark on here, when Graham was Trust Leader, by saying he had rolled over rather tamely with regard to James Brent and would be rewarded for doing so, is the face of Pasoti now and promotes it's wholesome image. Blatantly disregarding the aforementioned incidents, but at least there is no swearing on Pasoti eh Ian?
Then we have Nikk. Obviously a huge Argyle supporter who ploughs an amazing amount of money into the club, and indeed Pasoti. Nobody can deny the fantastic amounts of money that Nikk has donated via the pantomime auctions, but anyone who has donated anonymously or obviously to a lesser extent because they don't have the same kind of disposable income to hire a plane to fly over Sid James Park trailing a piss-taking banner, is asked "What did you do during the war" Surely everyone deserves credit for whatever they managed to donate, whether it was £5, £50,000 or 5 hours of their spare time? Not so on Pasoti. Nikk is heralded as the most philanthropic person ever because he arranges little treats for Pasoti regulars.
It's also a shame that Ian Newell didn't piss his pants quite as much when the boot was on the other foot and a really funny post that was put together by a Exeter fan and posted on Pasoti by me. This led to the post disappearing and me being banned. There was nothing worse on that post than was trailed behind the airplane over Exeter's ground, but as that was paid for by Nikk so it was a real jolly jape.
I have no problem with Nikk, and only have admiration for the amounts of money he has donated. I don't agree with the money being used to accelerate the staff wages and the way Nikk is just hailed for his donations and no questions are asked about why a rich supporter is accelerating the debts of a rich football club owner. I would have thought Nikk's offer of investment in the club would be welcomed with open arms, but James Brent doesn't want anyone else investing in the club which would improve the clubs finances and chances of moving up the leagues.
Nick Wall touched on the humour on Pasoti as well. It rarely has any. ATD is funny and acerbic and boasts input from the one, the only Mock Cuncher, who takes time off from keeping foreign marauders at bay, to inject an irreverant take on life that couldn't possibly be found anywhere else. On Pasoti you have OllieArgyle9 and his Sainsbury's analogy
The Trust has been dropped from having it's own section on Pasoti, in favour of the PASB
Good move one that guys! Oh and The Trust doesn't deserve it's own section, but Forza Verde does so that everyone can learn how to wave a flag and what comes after Whoooooa whooooooa in the new club anthem.
I guess if you want to read what PCH is listening to tonight, or what Luke Young is having from Nando's then Pasoti is the place. It's also where the players are known as Big Reg, Rene Gilmartin, or all have a Y added to the end of their names so you can show how big a fan you are. ATD members couldn't possibly be as good a fans as you get on Pasoti because on here we're not Twitter friends with Daz Pursey or Lukey Youngy.
If watching two mullet haired "comedians" sing the same songs about pasties every 2 weeks, sitting on a coach with no alcohol next to Ian Newell and then staying at a holiday camp with him overnight is your thing, then Pasoti will be your thing.
If you enjoy sending messages of support to Lithuanian swimmers and watching Home Park turn into a Walt Disney theme park where swearing is frowned upon, then again Pasoti is where you should be wearing your jester hat with pride
I prefer a site that doesn't rejoice when another bit of the club is sold off for a multi-millionaires pension fund, or when a lifelong fan is taken off of their regular feature in the matchday programme because they dare to question what is happening to their beloved football club.
Each to their own I suppose, but when someone like Pilgrim Pete gets his kicks out of starting a thread like this, and he's a bigtime Pasoti fan, I wonder if anyone could honestly imagine the same post being allowed to saty on Pasoti?
I'll stick with the unsanitised flavour thankyou.