Comment from Steve:
"As I wrote on the other site, it's just before Yom Kippur. [quote of comment removed because we have edited it] all this Chillul Hashem?
PS Rubashkin's appeal has just been dismissed. Time for some introspection."

Response To Steve:

Two points on the above comment:

A) The 'fifth chelek' was started in November 2010. In December 2010 David Werdiger and his cronies submitted a controversial article to 'Galus Australis'. 'Melbourne Chabad Talk' took off only recently in May 2011, in order to provide a voice to those who were being slandered on the 'Fifth Chelek'.

B) With regard to the mention of it now being prior to Yom Kippur. Let us take a look at what the Shulchon Oruch says about forgiveness for those sins that one commits between man and his fellow. The shulchan oruch states that prior to Yom Kippur one should ask his fellow for forgiveness, if he has sinned against him. The Shulchon oruch then goes into details of how one must ask forgiveness (he must state the details of the sin, he must do it in front of 3 people etc.) following that it states, the one who is forgiving should not be mean, rather, he should go ahead and forgive right away, however, if one spread a bad name about someone else, he has no obligation to forgive, because, there may be people that heard the slander and didn't hear the reconciliation, and they may think the slander was true.
Therefore in the true spirit of Yom Kippur, the members of the fifth chelek should take off the masks they hide behind and correct their wrongdoings, by stating that they regret the lies that they published and by asking forgiveness publicly from the people that they have defamed.