Words such as "whore" applied to any Strictly contestant, however bad, are Stricty not necessary, neither are threads that hurl personal insults at remaining contestants this close to the finish line. I simply cannot see why any couple who has worked their socks off weeks on end doing difficult routines and getting into the final should encounter personal abuse of the type that has been sprouting in this forum in the past few weeks.

I'll support that! Well said......

Thanks, Pentax,

I cut out the rest of what I said. (eg I hate the threads that say "X is rubbish" because if the OP goes on and gives a full explanation of the "rubbish", then you can't really diss that.)

But that "media whore" thing just got my goat.

Don't care who flames me back, I have my new asbestos overcoat on

I do not understand why anyone does it and am glad that the mods move quickly here.

I'm with you on this too

Its gotten very personal this year - much more so than in other years.

Right, now, just to show you that I am ready to be fair, you can compare and contrast the following two new threads:

'Artem is rubbish and Aliona is rubbish.

I had more to say on the first one.