So. Thread running here in which I asked some perfectly reasonable questions. Paul's solution - acuse me of "having a tantrum" and then close the thread.
Man it must be great to be an admin of a site like this. If someone says something you don't like, you can just close the thread - the equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and chanting, "I can't hear you, I can't hear you."
This is the problem. Herr Oberlieutenant Paul thinks that I am spamming my new blog site. And where am I spamming my new blog site? In my signature? Nope. On the forums in threads and posts? Nope. In emails or karma messages to people? Nope. No - I have been accused of spamming my blog, from within my blog. Genius.
I mean, let's think about this for a second. The only people reading my blog full of my words about my experiences and using my pictures - will be people with a passing interest in what I have to say about me and my family. So quite how I'm spamming, by letting people know that my blog has moved elsewhere, is beyond me. It's not like I'm leading the users of this site, like some digital Pied Piper, to a big competitor to British Expats. Nope - I'm letting the 30-or-so people who regularly read my blog know that it's moved. Wow - what a wanker I am.
The powers that be on this site seem to be obsessed with external links. It's as if (MY GOD!!!!) there are websites other than British Expats that we might all visit. And by stopping anyone mentioning those other unclean websites, they might perhaps go away and British Expats can continue to reign supreme amongst niche web forums devoted to people of British origin now living abroad.
The whole place was going to shit long before it was sold to a large media aggregating company. I will watch the coming months and the stunning site updates (oooh look, vendor forums - how very fucking useful) with real interest.