Why Did #MindsGaming @MindsGaming Lie?

In the comments section of a blog located here, I engaged in criticism of the author @MindsGaming. He didn't appreciate what I had to say, so he began addressing me in a derogatory manner, which he is entitled to do, as "bitching" about something he wrote in another blog. He suggested that I was merely complaining about something that I then complimented others on in the comments section. Both blogs label users with low network scores here on the Minds platform as "Lemon Users", meaning, if you don't have a high network or engagement score, you are defective.

I went to the comment section of the original blog and tried to find the comments he was referencing only to discover that he had not only deleted all but one of my comments in that blog post, but all of the others before what you can currently see there right now.

On his new blog the conversation went as follows. I've screen capped because it seems that there are a few people here who tend to delete comments they don't like that merely criticize or disagree with them.

My first comment on his new blog:

There were some other comments I made after that, but then he replied without tagging me, which is known as a "sub" response, which is underhanded and sneaky:

To which I replied:

The comment flow I'm referring to is following. Note now luculent is quoting another comment that is no longer there. I didn't make that comment, so how is it that luculent could be quoting another user's comment if it weren't there at one point, and then been deleted?

So my response to his is as follows:

He's clearly referencing an entire conversation that's no longer there, including the compliment I gave to luculent and medworthy, as well as their comments that I was making note of. It's all gone. My comments, medworthy's and luculent's comments that I was complimenting, nowhere to be found. I cannot delete other people's comments on blogs that don't belong to me.

His responses are as follows:

And then this:

Finally, I attempted to make another comment in order to further outline my theory that he's lying about not deleting comments and this is what happened:

These aren't the actions of an honest person.

Recently Minds has had another user who used trickery and dishonesty in attempts to get people to get on board a "reputation keeper", a system we all know would be faulty; just as faulty as @mindsgaming uses the term "lemon" to describe users with low network/engagement scores. It bears repeating that honesty is important when having conversations with people.

Deleting comments, then lying about it, is dishonest. 

Blocking a person who's calling you out for your dishonesty is not only cowardly, it disingenuous. 

While new users are coming onto this platform such as myself, I will tend to gravitate and compliment, and even reward people who are honest. 

@MindsGaming probably has a pretty high score on this platform, yet he's shown that he lies and without shame, then blocks people who disagree with him. 

I know there were others on that thread who know quite well that he deleted comments from the original blog. You can choose whether to address him publicly or not. I won't expect you to either way.

Keep in mind, many on minds have recently called out and marginalized, rightfully, a user named ChrisandAmber, or something similar. He tried to prove the need for a reputation keeper using deception. @MindsGaming has shown why such a reputation system would never work.

He is high status here, so there will be many who might tell me, "stop the drama, we all like him, who cares, what's the big deal..." And etc. When an entire community won't hold their most popular or well known people to standards others are expected to be held to, why should any of us support Minds monetarily by subscribing to Minds Plus? Why should any of us support ANY kind of reputation system if it ends up rewarding people who lie by giving them higher status over people who tell the truth?

All he had to do was say, "yes I deleted many comments because I felt the conversations was straying from where I wanted it to go," and called it a day? That would have been a reasonable response.