Forbidden Topics of Discussion - request for addition

mathepac

In this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057016628 a number of posters have advocated certain measures to "encourage" lane-hoggers to move to their left. If these illegal measures fail to achieve their purpose, posters then freely admit to undertaking lane-hoggers. The admissions have received thanks and elaborations on how to undertake "safely".

Given the appalling toll in lives and injuries we continue to suffer on our roads in Ireland, I ask that admitting to or encouraging drivers to engage in intimidatory actions towards "lane-hoggers", or admitting to, encouraging or thanking posters for undertaking be added to the Banned Topics list.

I think it would be an unfortunate oversight if boards.ie were to do less about such important an issue as road safety.

Thanks.

Beasty

Have you discussed this with the Motors Mods?

Dades

We have a banned topics list?

Certainly, if we were to ban discussion of every act that leaned over the line of legality it would be a long one, and this place would be a lot quieter.

mathepac

Beasty wrote: »

Have you discussed this with the Motors Mods?

I have reported the posts if that's what you mean, using the "report a post" button. No response from the mods and no action that I can see.

Beasty

mathepac wrote: »

I have reported the posts if that's what you mean, using the "report a post" button. No response from the mods and no action that I can see.

No, I mean have you PM'd them to discuss the issue?

It's clearly a forum-specific issue - if you have a problem why don't you discuss it with the mods first before starting a Feedback thread?

mathepac

Dades wrote: »

We have a banned topics list? ...

No, there's a Forbidden Topics List. I thought irt was a requirement of site use to have knowledge of such matters for regular posters and mods alike.

Dades wrote: »

... Certainly, if we were to ban discussion of every act that leaned over the line of legality it would be a long one, and this place would be a lot quieter.

I haven't advocated what you describe.

Just to inform those of you of the current forbidden topics list content, here you go:

• Pictures or links to pictures of Porn
• Pictures or links to pictures showing nipples and/or genitalia
• Child abuse/under age/jailbait/Lolita stuff
• How to do illegal things (this ranges from software piracy, to swindling the Revenue Commissioners)
• Pictures or links to pictures of self harming
• Pro anorexia pictures and websites
• Trepanning websites
• Bestiality
• Ordering medications online.

I'd propose adding that posting admissions or encouraging others in illegal / dangerous driving tactics with the "How to do illegal things (this ranges from software piracy, to swindling the Revenue Commissioners)"

mathepac

Beasty wrote: »

No, I mean have you PM'd them to discuss the issue? ...

If they are unwilling to take action on the posts I've already reported do you seriously think they will engage in discussion on the topic?

Beasty wrote: »

... It's clearly a forum-specific issue - if you have a problem why don't you discuss it with the mods first before starting a Feedback thread?

I don't agree that it's forum specific. "Swindling the Revenue", to use an example from the current list, could include not paying VRT on a car. That doesn't make not paying VRT on a car a Motors forum-specific topic.

Thus posting about your own life-threatening actions or encouraging others in replicating them is not Motors specific.

Dades

Having read the thread in question, I think you're being overly dramatic about what was posted. I was expecting high speed scores and motorway drifting techniques, not flashing headlamps.

I also think the way you went about broaching the issue in that thread was counter productive to your cause.

mathepac

Dades wrote: »

... I was expecting high speed scores and motorway drifting techniques, not flashing headlamps. ...

The point at issue is undertaking, as I stated in my OP above. How can I rephrase the OP to make that clear to you or are you just being your usual obtuse self?

returnNull

mathepac wrote: »

or are you just being your usual obtuse self?

says you with a posting style thats more abrassive than a brillo pad.

Its a non-issue and the fact you are looking for an explanation speaks for itself.

Callipo

mathepac wrote: »

No, there's a Forbidden Topics List. I thought irt was a requirement of site use to have knowledge of such matters for regular posters and mods alike.
I haven't advocated what you describe.

Just to inform those of you of the current forbidden topics list content, here you go:

• Pictures or links to pictures of Porn
• Pictures or links to pictures showing nipples and/or genitalia
• Child abuse/under age/jailbait/Lolita stuff
• How to do illegal things (this ranges from software piracy, to swindling the Revenue Commissioners)
• Pictures or links to pictures of self harming
• Pro anorexia pictures and websites
• Trepanning websites
• Bestiality
• Ordering medications online.

I'd propose adding that posting admissions or encouraging others in illegal / dangerous driving tactics with the "How to do illegal things (this ranges from software piracy, to swindling the Revenue Commissioners)"

Thank you for posting that.

I saw a few people banned awhile back and they were banned for discussing Forbidden Topics. I though it was something along the lines of when MCD was banned or those two mods who had access to a certain forum when they shouldn't have had (say nothing!), type thing.
At the time I did a search and thought how the hell do you know what a forbidden topic is if there is no list!

Know I know

returnNull

Callipo wrote: »

Thank you for posting that.

Know I know

didnt you tick a box saying you've read the sites T&C??:D

Stabshauptmann

You are upset you got laughed off the board when you said "there is no such thing as an overtaking lane "

You're explanation makes no sense. You quoted a poster who has complaining about a tard in the overtaking lane, to tell them that there is no such thing as an overtaking lane.

It is infuriating to drivers who know the ROTR that people sit in the over taking lane against the law.
The amount of times I've heard someone say "but I was doing the speed limit" which is your point #4.

You then start to get really p1ssy with the people trying to give you the benefit of the doubt

You made a big bo bo, and got laughed at, and now you are coming to feedback looking for support on an unrelated grievance. You want the people who also break the law by undertaking to be lynched the same way you were... or something?

mathepac

returnNull wrote: »

says you with a posting style thats more abrassive than a brillo pad...

My style doesn't boast about breaking the law, nor does it encourage others to do so or put lives at risk on public roads.

returnNull wrote: »

... Its a non-issue ...

I agree, my style is not what's at issue here.

returnNull wrote: »

... and the fact you are looking for an explanation speaks for itself.

Just what is it I seek an explanation for? I don't understand

returnNull

mathepac wrote: »

My style doesn't boast about breaking the law, nor does it encourage others to do so or put lives at risk on public roads.

was in reference to your critique of Dade's posting style,as well you know

I agree, my style is not what's at issue here.

again you're missing the point on purpose.

Just what is it I seek an explanation for? I don't understand

I dont know,you posted the OP,you tell me.

mathepac

Stabshauptmann wrote: »

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It is infuriating to drivers who know the ROTR that people sit in the over taking lane against the law. ...

Do I take it from your post that you support illegal and dangerous undertaking as an appropriate response to "lane-hogging"?

YbFocus

returnNull wrote: »

I dont know,you posted the OP,you tell me.

I think it was because he got roasted on the motors site through his own fault and wanted to see if he could get us back through the mods.

Mathepac:

No one was encouraging anything illegal, it was just our own acknowledgements of what we ourselves do to overcome these ignoramuses on the road that no one can get past.
At no point did it enter where anyone was giving tips on how to do it etc.
I also think you misunderstood the use of the thanks button. We were thanking in such a way to say "yes this is what has to be done, I agree" kind of fashion.
Not a "ohhh go on you mad cun*, tell me more about all the laws you break" which is what you appear to have taken it up as.

Stabshauptmann

mathepac wrote: »

Do I take it from your post that you support illegal and dangerous undertaking as an appropriate response to "lane-hogging"?

You can take it that I agree with laughing you off the motors forum, AND I agree with people here who say that the problems you encounter are mostly to do with your childish, disingenuous posting style.

What I was implying by the piece you quoted, is that I and others may have concluded from your post that you are the type of person who sits illegally in the overtaking lane.

edit: Anyway, I'm off to race down the N7 (genuinely)

Czarcasm

returnNull wrote: »

says you with a posting style thats more abrassive than a brillo pad.

Its a non-issue and the fact you are looking for an explanation speaks for itself.

returnNull you deserve POTD for this turn of phrase alone.

Quality


As for the OP using such a serious issue as road deaths to continue to piss all over the Feedback forum, yeah, that's quality too, piss poor quality, as I suppose has come to be expected.

BuffyBot

There appears to be little value in this thread, apart from the OP's axe which he appears to wish to grind to a stump. Let's put an end to that here and now.