Arrogance can be Tolerated but not Hypocrisy

Recently someone invited me to join a Facebook page called Ceylon Then Sri Lanka Now.

There were some interesting historical pictures, facts and trivia in it so I decided to join the group.

Then I posted a picture of a not so well know heroes of yesteryear.

It was approved without much delay and was well received by former fellow members.

The second post I made was about the VOC coins issued by the Dutch in the 17th century.

That too was approved with not much delay.

The third one posted was a picture of the then CBC (now SLBC) and wanted to know the identities of the personalities in the picture, as I knew the identity of only one person.

That post got delay to come up and thinking that there was some technical difficulty that it did not reach the right people (despite having seen the prompt I got on the screen when posting that it has been sent for moderator / Admin for approval) I repost it once more.

Again the same result and I was curious to know the reason why it had not been approved.

So, for the third time, I posted it again and requested the reasons for not approval.

After my third attempt, it got approved and the Admin / Moderator sent me a PM stating that it was initially not approved because there was not Caption in it, but that was incorrect.

It too got enough traction and part of the information I was seeking came from a source overseas, which I duly updated.

My fourth post was about a coin issued in 1815 and that two had a Caption written both in English as well as Sinhala.

It too got the same treatment as my third post.

Since I knew the identity of the Admin / Moderator by then thanks to the PM he sent earlier, I asked his again as to why it has not been approved.

I felt fishy earlier because I have seen that some guys who are in the friends' list of the Admin / Moderator getting their posts appear quite frequently.

I hate to beat around the bush; therefore I asked him directly if you do not want us to post there, say so then we can stop posting and leave.

At the same time, I reposted the same post again while I can still see him online but this time with a Caption written in Sinhala.

My last comment angered him and started becoming more and more aggressive in his responses.

First, he wanted to know what was my problem and why was I grumbling so much about not getting my post approved.

Then he changed the direction and said that delay was that he was not online for two days.

Then he was complaining about having more than 80,000 members to look after and I am not the only person needs his attention.

Further, he admonished me to try not to teach him how to manage his page which he had been doing since 2014.

The line was changed again and the reason it was not approved due to no Caption which was not true and when I mentioned that it had a Caption.

Then he said that posts with Captions written in Sinhala will not be approved due to many overseas members who are unable to understand the contents.

The man who tries to portrait him as a Busy Bee and have to look after more than 80,000 other members was sending PMs to me from 13.38 till 15.05.

A few hours prior to this conversation, another post was approved with a Caption written in Sinhala.

Even prior to that too, some other posts appeared some without Caption and or some not written in English.

Immediately, I sent him a screenshot of that post and he came back suggesting me to check my eyesight first.

I have put an arrow mark near the Sinhala Caption to draw his attention.

His last response was that he has no problem with his eyesight and Goodbye.

I knew what was to come so I made him read that I can tolerate arrogance but not hypocrisy.

With that parting remark, I was trying to access the page and as expected he had removed/ banned me from his page, which I have no issue but the purpose of this is to expose such hypocrites on social Media.