The “New and Improved” Rebuttal Section of Useless Knowledge debuted this week and I honestly cannot see how anything has been upgraded.

First of all, bestowing administrative powers to Frederick Smith, seemed like a poor choice.  Smith, (of course it is doubtful that is his “real” name, something that has become he and Pain-Lewis' latest obsession: demanding others to declare their real names to them) well known for his atheistic dribbles and alien declarations, is a polarizing figure at U-K.  He fits quaintly and most comfortably in the Ron Lewis/Tom Pain camp, speaking of which, why is this Pain-Lewis person allowed to openly post under two different names? Known to most of us as Sybil, he even sneakily tried to double dip in the recent writing contest sponsored by U-K, in a most botched attempt to five-finger the prize.  Busted!

Now, Sybil has taken to the Flame Room, a room that excludes most of the actively new writers on this site.  This room is supposed to be, according to Smith, “a place for the authors to commune” and “racist language is not allowed”.  Huh?  One would not receive that impression by the list of “new topics” posted here.  See for yourself: “I Hate America”, “Jews Must Die!”, “Liberals Are Gay Cowards”, and so on.  How is such a thing any better from what was originally implemented here?  Clearly, this is far worse and downright hateful and ignorant.

Here is the difference between the old way and the new: Fred now has executive power and Sybil has free reign now, with no one to call him out.  What about the moderators here to stop such bias and hate?  Good question.  The two chosen appear to be too scared and too incapable to stand up to these two losers.  One moderator, by all accounts, is a young college kid!  He could not handle the job of moderator last time and now he is suddenly back to aid poor little Tom from the Big Bad Haters at U-K? Give me a break!

The second moderator’s only claim to fame, seems to be a book she paid to be published in, using Publish America!  Dang! So that was why all those references to that company were mysteriously deleted!  Her website, offers no insight into her book or her qualifications.  When one clicks on the press section, the ONLY ‘press’ her book has managed to receive, is a one sentence quote from, gasp: Ken Hughes!  How is that for credibility!  Oh, but she does offer anyone the option of a glossy, high definition picture of herself.  No thanks.

Why has the horrible criminal references to one of my favorite U-K authors made by one of the all time worst writers of U-K not been deleted?  Talk about hateful and biased.

Incidentally, someone needs to do a little proofreading with all of Fred’s new dribbles.  Here is one from his new greatest hits, Rules and Goals: “a intelligent mod can differentiate between harmless banter and outright insult.”  Um, Fred, you used the wrong article here—it should be “an”.  “A” is used with consonants and “an” is used with vowels.  Guess you were out sick that day when it was taught in school, ha?  Or were you chasing aliens?

A mini grammar sidebar is in order for one of my favorite U-K writers as well:  There is no need to add an additional “s” to a person’s name where an s already exists at the end of that name.

Example: 

Wrong: Gates’s words

Correct:  Gates’ words

For Sybil: You continuously misuse the hyphen as a dash.  Another Useless Knowledge writer kindly addressed this matter with you, and you refused to admit that you were wrong.  Here it is for you to look up, in a reference book YOU referred Smith to during you strange task of critiquing other people’s entries.  Refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, 14^th edition, page 185, Rule 5.106.  In short:

Wrong: Sybil-a disturbed loser, will not go away.

Correct: Sybil—a disturbed loser, will not go away.

So much for the “New and Improved” rebuttal section.  It clearly looks like it is just going to be “The Fred and Sybil Show”, void of intelligence, diversity, and camaraderie. Way to go!