You are the very last person that should be accusing others of deflection, backtracking and outright lying.
You unfortunately have been trolled soo many times, that I really had to take my lead heavy foot off of sucker throttle. You're a nice enough guy, but it's your mealy mouthed comebacks is what I think has posters wanting to verbally beat you to a bloody pulp. You're like that kid in elementary school that would hide behind the teacher's skirt, and make faces while the aforementioned teacher was admonishing the class for giving you a taste of your own medicine. Like Prowler stated, you use whatever little grace you get from Bastard Factory and try to rub X's nose in it.
If that wasn't pathetic enough. You "lie" in wait in Meltdown and lurk. You only pop out of your "safe place" to rep those who have posted something that aligns with your opinion of the poster they were bashing. With you it doesn't matter who it is. You've repped me, Aryan, Freud...etc...when we've posted something unintentional that melds with your opinion of that poster.
I think also, the whole not being able to fight your own battles is also what makes some people feel turned off by you as well. I see nothing with it, you're just playing your strengths. If you can't go head on, then play the political game, I get it. I can't really be mad, then again, I can't speak for the rest of the forum as a whole.