He had the power to banish me into the wilderness at the slightest provocation, which he had already done several times in the past. His handle "Te Reo Putake" means "The Voice of Reason."

Unfortunately for Te Reo Putake, he fell foul of one of the other moderators on the site, a ghastly censorious presence rejoicing in the moniker of "weka." He is now effectively banned from The Standard.

Weka's main strategy is to embroil people in the most arcane and crazed sexual politics. Here she notes that John Pilger will be interviewed by Kim Hill, and that she "will be listening to see if he has learnt how not to support rape culture in his support for Assange."....
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/weka-has-go-at-john-pilger-aug-22-2015.html

Here she is using the same "rape apology" line on me, as well as banning me for three days...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2020/04/kim-hill-slurred-james-k-baxter-at-end.html

Her other strategy is to inject herself into threads and peremptorily demand evidence for every single thing one says. That is, if you're a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2020/04/weka-no-evidence-of-labour-party-purge.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2020/04/attention-weka-apr-6-2020.html

The moderator "Incognito" is even more unreasonable and sinister than weka...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2020/04/breen-threatened-yet-again-by-moderator.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2020/04/banned-for-week-by-incognito-again-apr.html

Here he is banning me for six months back in 2019...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/08/banned-for-six-months-from-standard-aug.html

And here's another moderator, "Ad"---perhaps the most fervent Russiagate Truther in New Zealand, by the way---accusing me of "McCarthyism"...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/breen-denounced-for-mccarthyism-jul-14.html

https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/08/morrissey-banned-links-on-standard-aug.html