Thread in Soccer Access Requests Deleted

Le_Roi_Eric

I don't think that was necessary and I would ask you to undelete it.

It may have said some things you didn't agree with or like to see but I'm as entitled to have my say as any other registered poster on the site.

Who are you trying to protect when you go about burning books like that?

Here is the post:

Can somebody explain to me why on earth this is necessary?

What incentive are you giving people who would like to discuss football and have a bit of a laugh and a chat?

You know it's a football forum, yes? As far as I'm aware there aren't any Vatican secrets to be disclosed on there.

Fifty posts before you can talk about football? After a month? Why would anyone want to do that? And they'll be banned for a month if they don't follow the protocol? It sounds like communist Russia.

In a time when football is being taken away from the working man and becoming less inclusive, people are being told they can't even discuss it without joining some private members' club and having to prostrate themselves before some pontificating mods before they can get in.

Even in today's day and age, getting a mortgage is less of an effort.

seamus

:rolleyes:

We're not in the business of giving free advertising to other sites.

That's why your thread was deleted.

Moved to feedback.

If you have opinions on the Soccer Access mechanism, feel free to speak them here.

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Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

I don't think that was necessary and I would ask you to undelete it.

It may have said some things you didn't agree with or like to see but I'm as entitled to have my say as any other registered poster on the site.

Who are you trying to protect when you go about burning books like that?

lol

Wazdakka

Ahhh Context free feedback requests...


The best kind.

Gordon

seamus wrote: »

:rolleyes:

We're not in the business of giving free advertising to other sites.

Lord knows their site needs it.

seamus

I've edited the thread title to include context and be fair to the OP because I was the one who removed the context in the first place

Sherifu

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

It may have said some things you didn't agree with or like to see but I'm as entitled to have my say as any other registered poster on the site.

You have no entitlements here sir.

Le_Roi_Eric

seamus wrote: »

I've edited the thread title to include context and be fair to the OP because I was the one who removed the context in the first place

Take the name of the website out of the post and its contents are still relevant.


Just giving an option to the people you are banning and turning away from your own site.

seamus

The contents aren't relevant to the forum that you posted them in. Feel free to repost it in this thread without the link.

People very much have options:

1. Follow the process, post about soccer.
2. Don't follow the process, don't post about soccer.

Le_Roi_Eric

seamus wrote: »

The contents aren't relevant to the forum that you posted them in. Feel free to repost it in this thread without the link.

People very much have options:

1. Follow the process, post about soccer.
2. Don't follow the process, don't post about soccer.

I don't have the original post anymore, you deleted it unfortunately.

And what fantastic options they are, thank goodness for the internet, where anything is possible.

jaykay74

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

I don't have the original post anymore, you deleted it unfortunately.

And aren't we all the poorer for that

Gordon

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

I don't have the original post anymore, you deleted it unfortunately.

And what fantastic options they are, thank goodness for the internet, where anything is possible.

Incorrect, I deleted it. And I banned some of your mates too. If you want to use boards as a discussion forum: fine, if you want to use boards to pimp other websites then f*ck off and stick to your own site. Thanks.

seamus

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

I don't have the original post anymore

I've added it to the first post in this thread.

Now, please continue.

If soccer fans weren't all such a bunch of children, none of this would be necessary. You and your mates quite beautifully illustrated this childishness.

If you can provide solid evidence that an open forum doesn't just descend into name calling and posts such as "Man U FTW LOL", you may have a point.

Boards.ie has 154,000 members. Half of them probably like soccer. So that 77,000 people. 90% of soccer fans act like children when the topic comes up. This is scientifically proven. So that's 69,300 potential children posting on a single forum. Far too many to just ban the people acting the maggot.

Le_Roi_Eric

Gordon wrote: »

Incorrect, I deleted it. And I banned some of your mates too. If you want to use boards as a discussion forum: fine, if you want to use boards to pimp other websites then f*ck off and stick to your own site. Thanks.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Gordo.

And I'd like to think we can discuss things with each other without having to resort to obscenities.

I'm sure a lot people are frustrated and disillusioned after looking for somewhere to discuss football, like the guy who was almost bounced because he only had 48 posts, to be told "You didn't read the charter".

Take a step back and think about how farcical it looks from the outside.

Chong

Some seriously trolling here by the OP, bannage and thread closue is needed here.

Le_Roi_Eric

seamus wrote: »

I've added it to the first post in this thread.

Now, please continue.

If soccer fans weren't all such a bunch of children, none of this would be necessary. You and your mates quite beautifully illustrated this childishness.

Seamus, don't blame me for what other people have written.

If you want to talk about childish posts I've made myself, fine.

Gordon

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Gordo.

And I'd like to think we can discuss things with each other without having to resort to obscenities.

I'm sure a lot people are frustrated and disillusioned after looking for somewhere to discuss football, like the guy who was almost bounced because he only had 48 posts, to be told "You didn't read the charter".

Take a step back and think about how farcical it looks from the outside.

Read up on why this has happened.

Crapjob Sean

Gordon wrote: »

Incorrect, I deleted it. And I banned some of your mates too. If you want to use boards as a discussion forum: fine, if you want to use boards to pimp other websites then f*ck off and stick to your own site. Thanks.

Is not mentioning other sites a rule?
My request is still pending and I don't want to be banned for mentioning one.

Can we mention video sites like Youtube that have football clips?
Or is it just football sites that are banned?

Thanks

Le_Roi_Eric

Gordon wrote: »

Read up on why this has happened.

Have done.

Le_Roi_Eric

Cruijff wrote: »

Some seriously trolling here by the OP, bannage and thread closue is needed here.

Why?

Gordon

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

Seamus, don't blame me for what other people have written.

If you want to talk about childish posts I've made myself, fine.

In post #38 of the thread you are discussing on the forum you frequent - you are telling people to "get on this" - the thread you created advertising the site you frequent.

seamus

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

Have done.

And?

Gordon

Crapjob Sean wrote: »

Is not mentioning other sites a rule?
My request is still pending and I don't want to be banned for mentioning one.

Can we mention video sites like Youtube that have football clips?
Or is it just football sites that are banned?

Thanks

You are perfectly welcome to mention sites, you are not welcome to pimp or advertise other sites.

Thanks.

jaykay74

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Gordo.

And I'd like to think we can discuss things with each other without having to resort to obscenities.

I'm sure a lot people are frustrated and disillusioned after looking for somewhere to discuss football, like the guy who was almost bounced because he only had 48 posts, to be told "You didn't read the charter".

Take a step back and think about how farcical it looks from the outside.

Nope, looks fine to me. Rules made, Rules enforced. discussion forum works fine. Try BBC 606 if you want a free for all. Its gets tiresome after about 5 minutes...

Le_Roi_Eric

seamus wrote: »

Boards.ie has 154,000 members. Half of them probably like soccer. So that 77,000 people. 90% of soccer fans act like children when the topic comes up. This is scientifically proven. So that's 69,300 potential children posting on a single forum. Far too many to just ban the people acting the maggot.

I can sympathise with you on this, it's difficult, but it's not impossible.

Aside from anything else, live and let live.

If you're going to have a football forum, it will be full of football fans, and being a football fan is by its very nature about slagging and namecalling, it's the language of the terrace.

If you want to end up with a sanitised, posing forum resembling something like Sky Sport's Sunday Supplement, this is a good way of going about it.

Some of the best forums I've been on have twats on them. You can ignore them if you want, it's pretty easy.

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Some of the best forums I've been on have twats on them. You can ignore them if you want, it's pretty easy.

Thankfully this forum discovered some this morning, and deleted their posts.

Mr Magnolia

Hi there Le_Roi_Eric. Boards.ie's Soccer forum has been running well for a number of years under the admins' direction without your contributions. I like it, so do most of the other soccer forum users. If you want to use it, then you have to abide by the rules, if you don't there are plenty of other forums out there, go use them.


As for the thread on your the other soccer forum; it's pretty pathetic to be honest.

seamus

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

I can sympathise with you on this, it's difficult, but it's not impossible.

It's not worth the effort, that's what it is.

Unless you're willing to stump up some cash to pay someone to monitor the thing full time, then you can have 200 volunteer mods and you'd still be pissing against the wind.

Le_Roi_Eric

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

Hi there Le_Roi_Eric. Boards.ie's Soccer forum has been running well for a number of years under the admins' direction without your contributions. I like it, so do most of the other soccer forum users. If you want to use it, then you have to abide by the rules, if you don't there are plenty of other forums out there, go use them.


As for the thread on your the other soccer forum; it's pretty pathetic to be honest.

That's great.

Bully for you all.

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Mr Magnolia wrote: »

Hi there Le_Roi_Eric. Boards.ie's Soccer forum has been running well for a number of years under the admins' direction without your contributions. I like it, so do most of the other soccer forum users. If you want to use it, then you have to abide by the rules, if you don't there are plenty of other forums out there, go use them.

He knows all about other ones, and the type of juvenile twatology that goes on in them.

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

As for the thread on your the other soccer forum; it's pretty pathetic to be honest.

link please?

(PM Please, son't want to be giving these fúckwits any more free advertisement)

Mr Magnolia

Here ya go.

Cuddlesworth

seamus wrote: »

It's not worth the effort, that's what it is.

Unless you're willing to stump up some cash to pay someone to monitor the thing full time, then you can have 200 volunteer mods and you'd still be pissing against the wind.

200 Mods on a forum would lead to chaos.

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Cheers.

Wow, how pathetic are people?

Toys out of prams I think.

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Gordon wrote: »

In post #38 of the thread you are discussing on the forum you frequent - you are telling people to "get on this" - the thread you created advertising the site you frequent.

And he still hasn't addressed this particular piece of numbnuttery.

Doctor DooM

Le_Roi_Eric

Gordon wrote: »

In post #38 of the thread you are discussing on the forum you frequent - you are telling people to "get on this" - the thread you created advertising the site you frequent.

And?

I don't tell people what to write or how to write it.

Perhaps, if they'd followed my example rather than a different angle, they wouldn't be banned now.

Ringo Gringo

So what is the point of having to reach the 50 post mark? Do you suddenly become imbued with the essence of boards.ie?

There's been a degree of mud-slinging about other sites yet there are posts that are permitted on boards.ie that are more worthy of ridicule on the grounds of stupidity.

I can appreciate the deletion of offensive remarks but I don't see the point in having to post 50 times just to be permitted to post about soccer. Doesn't that encourage people posting token posts just to hit the mark?

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Which one of the banned twats are you?

Gordon

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

And?

I don't tell people what to write or how to write it.

Perhaps, if they'd followed my example rather than a different angle, they wouldn't be banned now.

Perhaps if you hadn't spammed your forum you wouldn't be on the edge of being banned right now also.

Ringo Gringo wrote: »

So what is the point of having to reach the 50 post mark? Do you suddenly become imbued with the essence of boards.ie?

There's been a degree of mud-slinging about other sites yet there are posts that are permitted on boards.ie that are more worthy of ridicule on the grounds of stupidity.

I can appreciate the deletion of offensive remarks but I don't see the point in having to post 50 times just to be permitted to post about soccer. Doesn't that encourage people posting token posts just to hit the mark?

"Jap Sigh": read up on the history of the soccer forum.

Sherifu

Ringo Gringo wrote: »

Doesn't that encourage people posting token posts just to hit the mark?

+1

seamus

Ringo Gringo wrote: »

I can appreciate the deletion of offensive remarks but I don't see the point in having to post 50 times just to be permitted to post about soccer. Doesn't that encourage people posting token posts just to hit the mark?

It doesn't seem to. It's easy to clock up fifty posts in month without token posting. It's less than two per day. The month rule prevents people spamming just to hit fifty posts. And the fifty posts rule discourages people registering new accounts to get around their ban.

Ringo Gringo

Gordon wrote: »

Perhaps if you hadn't spammed your forum you wouldn't be on the edge of being banned right now also.


"Jap Sigh": read up on the history of the soccer forum.

Is there not a short logical answer that doesn't involve me wasting copious amounts of time?

I'm not trying to be facetious but you seem to have a set against me for questioning it.

Ringo Gringo

Sherifu wrote: »

We take our soccer seriously here

I'm not questioning that.

I've been on other forums where people have dipped in and out on occasion and added interesting posts that promoted a lot of discussion. They can't hit 50 posts because they don't have the access or other fundamental reasons. Yet they would be worthy additions to any football forum.

Le_Roi_Eric

Gordon wrote: »

Perhaps if you hadn't spammed your forum you wouldn't be on the edge of being banned right now also.

Maybe, but it would be fighting a good fight for all the disenfranchised.

Do you seriously not mention any other websites on here?

F365? Rivals? PLB? The Fantasy League website?

Why the taboo?

I'm not making money from it.

Gordon

Ringo Gringo wrote: »

Is there not a short logical answer that doesn't involve me wasting copious amounts of time?

User spends time : Investment : Forum profits.

I take your comment to mean that we should spend our time educating you? No, it doesn't work like that, I have personally wasted enough time clearing up your mess today.

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

Do you seriously not mention any other websites on here?

I commented on that earlier.

6th

Christ Brian, can you not just accept that this hugely popular site knows what its doing?

raido9

Ringo Gringo wrote: »

Is there not a short logical answer that doesn't involve me wasting copious amounts of time?

I'm not trying to be facetious but you seem to have a set against me for questioning it.

Its always the way.

Questioning the soccer forum is taboo, don't you know. Don't worry, you're only new, it'll all become clear once you've posted 50 times.

Le_Roi_Eric

raido9 wrote: »

Its always the way.

Questioning the soccer forum is taboo, don't you know. Don't worry, you're only new, it'll all become clear once you've posted 50 times.

Is it worth it?

When you get in there, you know?

What's it like?

I can only speculate but I imagine the banter to be red-hot.

Ringo Gringo

raido9 wrote: »

Its always the way.

Questioning the soccer forum is taboo, don't you know. Don't worry, you're only new, it'll all become clear once you've posted 50 times.

Is there a special language as well?

Newspeak, perhaps?

Sherifu

Le_Roi_Eric wrote: »

Is it worth it?

When you get in there, you know?

What's it like?

I can only speculate but I imagine the banter to be red-hot.

Read the ****ing thing. Anyone can. You only need to apply to post. Reading is free.

Le_Roi_Eric

Gordon wrote: »

I commented on that earlier.

I don't think it was advertising or pimping, both cases suggest that I have some sort of product from which I stand to make some sort of benefit.

Just letting people know they have somewhere to come in, from out in the cold.

God only knows to where they might turn from the door which has been closed so callousley in their faces.