Abuse on AH

BillyBoy13

I was just thinking about this....

If I was to say something like "that Frada chap is a smug b- " Id get banned right away no questions asked.

But if I wanted I could talk about how much of gob****e ryan tubbs is or make jokes about Mary Harney having one too many mcdonalds and nobody would bat an eyelid.

Just wondering is it basically you can attack someone so long as they arent members? Or if Bertie signed up would that mean all the moaning about him would have to be stopped?

darkpagandeath

Simple attack the post not the poster...

Gummy Panda

The reason you'd get banned is no so much to protect frada's feelings but to stop a back and front flame war between posters.

Kylo Ren

If you try and rationalise mods enforcing rules

You're gonna have a bad time.

Plates

What if the poster is a tool?

Son Of A Vidic

BillyBoy13 wrote: »

Just wondering is it basically you can attack someone so long as they arent members?

Correct and I mean seriously, do you even know the handshake?

Shakti

What makes you think he's not already a moderater member

Vito Corleone

Plot twist - Frada is Mary Harney.

stefan idiot jones

Even greedy corrupt politicians have feelings.

And cash.

dpofloinn

If you put yourself in the public eye its expected you will be criticised but if you post on a public forum you shouldnt expect to be personally abused for expressing your opinion no matter how unpopular it may be ,argued with yes, but not personal attacks

darkpagandeath

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Even greedy corrupt politicians have feelings.

And cash.

Did not one of them want Boards closed down comparing it with dissent :P

Mint Aero

They touched my special area

Bounty Hunter Dan

Ryan Tubridy should sign up to Boards so. Then whenever people called him a twat or whatever, he could just report them for personal abuse.

wazky

You just have to phrase it right, like the tabloids do.

' A source close to Billy Boy has confirmed that Billy Boy is a knob'

stefan idiot jones

Bounty Hunter Dan wrote: »

Ryan Tubridy should sign up to Boards so. Then whenever people called him a twat or whatever, he could just report them for personal abuse.

He would be one busy twat.

wretcheddomain

Bounty Hunter Dan wrote: »

Ryan Tubridy should sign up to Boards so. Then whenever people called him a twat or whatever, he could just report them for personal abuse.

He'd end up becoming a Mod in the Health & Fitness forum advising others how to lose weight and simultaneously look like a spanner...

catallus

Why would anyone abuse Ryan? The man is a prince!

freshpopcorn

Mary Harney jokes are very 2005,

Catari Jaguar

But isn't/wasn't Dave mcSavage a poster that gotta tons of abuse cos he's an utter twat? He was ripped to shreds, so trollable...

BillyBoy13

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Simple attack the post not the poster...

I understand that completely.

Just the point I was getting at was that there is a lot personal attacks on people (be they celebs/politicions/criminals/eccentrics etc) on here and thats fine.

But direct that same attack at a member and suddenly you are in trouble.

So Im just thinking of all these celebs etc were to sign up that would be the end of it.... wouldnt it?

phasers

That Frada is a smug bastard


...And now we play the waiting game.

krudler

Frada is a real person though, everyone knows Ryan Tubridy is a robot, powered on RTE licence money and souls sapped from his audience every Friday night.

dxhound2005

Ryan Tubridy had an account, according to this.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056542707

wretcheddomain

This...

BillyBoy13 wrote: »

I understand that completely.

Just the point I was getting at was that there is a lot personal attacks on people (be they celebs/politicions/criminals/eccentrics etc) on here and thats fine.

But direct that same attack at a member and suddenly you are in trouble.

So Im just thinking of all these celebs etc were to sign up that would be the end of it.... wouldnt it?

...has already been comprehensively answered by this...

Gummy Panda wrote: »

The reason you'd get banned is no so much to protect frada's feelings but to stop a back and front flame war between posters.

Boards.ie is a discussion forum and the discussion part of that would be crippled if everyone were to be permitted to abuse each other - in fact, such a rule would itself be abused.

I think this is pretty self-explanatory to be perfectly frank.

Am I the only one who hasn't a clue who or what Frada is? :pac:

darkpagandeath

wretcheddomain wrote: »

This...



...has already been comprehensively answered by this...



Boards.ie is a discussion forum and the discussion part of that would be crippled if everyone were to be permitted to abuse each other - in fact, such a rule would itself be abused.

I think this is pretty self-explanatory to be perfectly frank.

Am I the only one who hasn't a clue who or what Frada is? :pac:

Prob some Reddit hypster thing

Tigger

Omar Frada coming.

Oranage2

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Simple attack the post not the poster...

This.

Write like 'You're post is an absolute moron! '

BillyBoy13

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Am I the only one who hasn't a clue who or what Frada is? :pac:

If ya dont know ya Frada then your kinda missing the.... nevermind

4zn76tysfajdxp

krudler wrote: »

Frada is a real person though

Allegedly.

jimgoose

We used to kick the sh!t out of the Mods in Brighton in the '60s, but we're all friends now. They're alright, in a Curehead-sort of way. :cool:

WilyCoyote

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Plot twist - Frada is Mary Harney.

Wrong there. I've seen him bend over and there's no 2lb of crack

WilyCoyote

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Mary Harney jokes are very 2005,

Ah now. C'mon. You can't beat the old ones

wretcheddomain

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Am I the only one who hasn't a clue who or what Frada is? :pac:

He's all things to men and maybe to a lucky gal...

PizzamanIRL

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Simple attack the post not the poster...

**** this stupid ****ing post. What a load of ****e. Wait now til I get my baseball bat and beat the crap out of it!

ScumLord

BillyBoy13 wrote: »

I was just thinking about this....

If I was to say something like "that Frada chap is a smug b- " Id get banned right away no questions asked.

But if I wanted I could talk about how much of gob****e ryan tubbs is or make jokes about Mary Harney having one too many mcdonalds and nobody would bat an eyelid.

The difference would be Ryan Tupperware and Mary Horney put themselves out into the public domain. Frada didn't. I also don't think you have free rein to say what you like about public personalities, it's just accepted that they will get to much abuse to single out any one person for it. whereas a private citizen that doesn't have thousands of people commenting on them is going to to have the time and inclination to do something about slurs made against them.

BillyBoy13

ScumLord wrote: »

The difference would be Ryan Tupperware and Mary Horney put themselves out into the public domain. Frada didn't. I also don't think you have free rein to say what you like about public personalities, it's just accepted that they will get to much abuse to single out any one person for it. whereas a private citizen that doesn't have thousands of people commenting on them is going to to have the time and inclination to do something about slurs made against them.

Well in fairness, we see a lot of people getting stick on here and its not always people who are famous because they put themselves out there. Some people have gotten famous for stuff that.... well stuff they probably would have rathered hadn't happened..... KPMG girl for example.

Fighting Irish

Gummy Panda wrote: »

The reason you'd get banned is no so much to protect frada's feelings but to stop a back and front flame war between posters.

What if they war was through PMs?

Annasopra

Fighting Irish wrote: »

What if they war was through PMs?

You mean PRIVATE messages?

Rabelais

I don't really know who this Frada character is. However, he is been spoken about in referntial tones. Must be one of the 'old crew', getting emotional about the days of 3am backups, Bubbles, the day Sarky made a really zany post in the Cuckoo's nest and so forth.

A regular Colossus striding across the AH forum of debate, casting aside 'newbs' and 'trolls' with a cynical and pithy post. An online giant. I've always felt that I ever went to a beers some of these metophorical giants of AH would be just really fat men with no sense of fashion, very little to say, and with a vague smell of old mushroom emerging out of their sweaty pits.

Fighting Irish

mango salsa wrote: »

You mean PRIVATE messages?

So you can abuse people through PM all ye want?

Annasopra

Fighting Irish wrote: »

So you can abuse people through PM all ye want?

NO. You can't. Sitebans are often handed out for abusive pms.

stmol32

BillyBoy13 wrote: »

.... if Bertie signed up would that mean all the moaning about him would have to be stopped?

Actually I've been a proud member since '07.
I don't mind the moaning because, basically, it doesn't bother me one tiny bit.

In the words of Fr. Fintan Stack "I've had my fun.... and that's all that matters."

holystungun9

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Simple attack the post not the poster...

That's my dog's attitude to things.

Dravokivich

dpofloinn wrote: »

If you put yourself in the public eye its expected you will be criticised but if you post on a public forum you shouldnt expect to be personally abused for expressing your opinion no matter how unpopular it may be ,argued with yes, but not personal attacks

Criticised for things you say and do yeah, not just for nonsense though. Boards aint for it and its been commented on many times by admins along with dav throughout this site.

K-9

BillyBoy13 wrote: »

I was just thinking about this....

If I was to say something like "that Frada chap is a smug b- " Id get banned right away no questions asked.

But if I wanted I could talk about how much of gob****e ryan tubbs is or make jokes about Mary Harney having one too many mcdonalds and nobody would bat an eyelid.

Just wondering is it basically you can attack someone so long as they arent members? Or if Bertie signed up would that mean all the moaning about him would have to be stopped?

The television forum has taken a stronger line on stuff about Tubridy so in time that will probably filter down to AH. I'll sadly miss the original jokes about Harney and Tubbs when they are banned.

Cienciano

Rabelais wrote: »

I don't really know who this Frada character is. However, he is been spoken about in referntial tones. Must be one of the 'old crew', getting emotional about the days of 3am backups, Bubbles, the day Sarky made a really zany post in the Cuckoo's nest and so forth.

A regular Colossus striding across the AH forum of debate, casting aside 'newbs' and 'trolls' with a cynical and pithy post. An online giant. I've always felt that I ever went to a beers some of these metophorical giants of AH would be just really fat men with no sense of fashion, very little to say, and with a vague smell of old mushroom emerging out of their sweaty pits.

Never mind post of the day, thats post of the century!

Rabelais

Rabelais wrote: »

I don't really know who this Frada character is. However, he is been spoken about in referntial tones. Must be one of the 'old crew', getting emotional about the days of 3am backups, Bubbles, the day Sarky made a really zany post in the Cuckoo's nest and so forth.

What about those boards Gathering Cards, you don't see them at all anymore.