Half of the old users are banned

Live65a846d0ee

So when you look through older threads you see that 50% of the users are banned😩
Maybe the problem is not the users, it's the overzealous administration of justice on the forums.
Like for example in the United States of America 1/3 of the population goes to prison at least once in their lifetime so on boards it's around 1/2.
I believe that the administration of justice is too harsh and should be changed. Rules relaxed. It feels like we have no freedom of speech anymore and you need to be very careful of what you say otherwise you are getting the ban hammer.

*banned*

Jack the Stripper

Power is a serious tool.

weisses

There was never "freedom of speech" on boards ..... Try to keep up

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

And why were you banned?

Live65a846d0ee

weisses wrote: »

There was never "freedom of speech" on boards ..... Try to keep up

There should be though as that is fundamental to our first world society.

Grayson

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

So when you look through older threads you see that 50% of the users are banned😩
Maybe the problem is not the users, it's the overzealous administration of justice on the forums.
Like for example in the United States of America 1/3 of the population goes to prison at least once in their lifetime so on boards it's around 1/2.
I believe that the administration of justice is too harsh and should be changed. Rules relaxed. It feels like we have no freedom of speech anymore and you need to be very careful of what you say otherwise you are getting the ban hammer.

*banned*

So sayeth Mr ReReg

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

There should be though as that is fundamental to our first world society.

If you want to be able to say whatever you like about anybody you like, then start your own blog.

Live65a846d0ee

Kimber Screeching Rehabilitation wrote: »

If you want to be able to say whatever you like about anybody you like, then start your own blog.

Yes, but on boards we have a bigger audience which can see more of our views, no point if no one will find my blog. I do not have finances to advertise it.

Noddyholder

Do you know the best thing that ever came out of Wolverhampton was Slade.

nullzero

Noddyholder wrote: »

Do you know the best thing that ever came out of Wolverhampton was Slade.

You would say that.

Grayson

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

Yes, but on boards we have a bigger audience which can see more of our views, no point if no one will find my blog. I do not have finances to advertise it.

So the point is that you can say what you want but you can't make people listen?

Live65a846d0ee

Grayson wrote: »

So the point is that you can say what you want but you can't make people listen?

Everything is possible. German people listened to Hitler too at the time and now he is considered pure evil yet he was the hero of his time in Germany during the ww2 period

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

Yes, but on boards we have a bigger audience which can see more of our views, no point if no one will find my blog. I do not have finances to advertise it.

Isn't life tough?

Widdershins

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

So when you look through older threads you see that 50% of the users are banned😩
Maybe the problem is not the users, it's the overzealous administration of justice on the forums.
Like for example in the United States of America 1/3 of the population goes to prison at least once in their lifetime so on boards it's around 1/2.
I believe that the administration of justice is too harsh and should be changed. Rules relaxed. It feels like we have no freedom of speech anymore and you need to be very careful of what you say otherwise you are getting the ban hammer.

*banned*

Yep. I see the need for rules and boundaries but it's too easy to find yourself with an infraction on Boards. Sometimes it looks like a biased Moderator would let certain things pass if they seem to like or agree with the poster, and infract other posters for a similar breach. There are lots of rules to remember.

Dravokivich

I generally don't care who is banned or why. I find nostalgia for other posters to be rather trivial on a discussion board. Either you get involved in it or you don't.

Live65a846d0ee

Kimber Screeching Rehabilitation wrote: »

Isn't life tough?

Of course. Earth is like a living hell but we need to try to make the best of it. One thing we can do is protest.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

Of course. Earth is like a living hell but we need to try to make the best of it. One thing we can do is protest.

Or get on with life.

Live65a846d0ee

Widdershins wrote: »

Yep. I see the need for rules and boundaries but it's too easy to find yourself with an infraction on Boards. Sometimes it looks like a biased Moderator would let certain things pass if they seem to like or agree with the poster, and infract other posters for a similar breach. There are lots of rules to remember.

That is why extremely strict vetting procedures need to be implemented. Also there seems to be a case of more chiefs than soldiers. By that I mean half of the users are mods which means to much power for too many people.

GhostyMcGhost

Alternative facts:

1/3 of Americans are stoopid

1/2 the comments on boards and indeed the wider internet are borderline trolling

Twitter, thejournal (famous for it), YouTube.... its rife with things that these people wouldn't say in real life

Live65a846d0ee

Kimber Screeching Rehabilitation wrote: »

Or get on with life.

But everyone gets on with life in different ways.

Barry Badrinath

Yore ma is banned

Live65a846d0ee

GhostyMcGhost wrote: »

Alternative facts:

1/3 of Americans are stoopid

1/2 the comments on boards and indeed the wider internet are borderline trolling

Twitter, thejournal (famous for it), YouTube.... its rife with things that these people wouldn't say in real life

Yet Twitter and YouTube are one of the most popular sites in the world. Reddit too which has little censorship? Anyone taking notes? See the pattern? The only reason I am here because the site is Irish if there was an alternative then I would be gone there ASAP. Like reddit

Jack the Stripper

A lot of bored foll tonite.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I saw a dead badger yesterday.

nullzero

No mention of Face kicker?

Badly Drunk Boy

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

Yes, but on boards we have a bigger audience which can see more of our views, no point if no one will find my blog. I do not have finances to advertise it.

Write your blog and have a link to it in your sig. I'm sure you can afford that.

Noddyholder wrote: »

Do you know the best thing that ever came out of Wolverhampton was Slade.

I know Steve Bull was originally from Tipton but he's more of a Wolverhamton legend than Noddy (or Big Ears).

Live65a846d0ee

Kimber Screeching Rehabilitation wrote: »

I saw a dead badger yesterday.

An unfortunate event to witness, a poor animal probably ran over with a motor vehicle.

Live65a846d0ee

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Write your blog and have a link to it in your sig. I'm sure you can afford that.


I know Steve Bull was originally from Tipton but he's more of a Wolverhamton legend than Noddy (or Big Ears).

More views on boards which means bigger audience will see the post as compare to my own blog

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

An unfortunate event to witness, a poor animal probably ran over with a motor vehicle.

Run over by, you mean. And the badger being dead was not in itself an event.

Live65a846d0ee

Kimber Screeching Rehabilitation wrote: »

Run over by, you mean. And the badger being dead was not in itself an event.

You witnessed a badger dead which means it was an event

''I witnessed a dead badger''

I dunno. I've never been infracted because I keep a close grip on my inner troll. She does be chomping at the bit sometimes.

Jack the Stripper

Did you gut and cook the badger Srameen?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

Did you gut and cook the badger Srameen?

No, but Napoleon didn't like cheese.

Live65a846d0ee

GhostyMcGhost wrote: »

Alternative facts:

1/3 of Americans are stoopid

1/2 the comments on boards and indeed the wider internet are borderline trolling

Twitter, thejournal (famous for it), YouTube.... its rife with things that these people wouldn't say in real life

There was nothing they could do!!!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

weisses wrote: »

There was never "freedom of speech" on boards ..... Try to keep up

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can say what you like where you like when you like without consequences. Nor does it mean people MUST listen to you or platforms like this one MUST facilitate you.

dudara

Is there anything to be said for saying another mass??

Widdershins

Live65a846d0ee wrote: »

That is why extremely strict vetting procedures need to be implemented. Also there seems to be a case of more chiefs than soldiers. By that I mean half of the users are mods which means to much power for too many people.

I hadn't noticed how many mods there are but there's some interesting discussions about moderator bias and the level of moderator involvement in threads, in one of the Feedback threads. Not that I'm telling you not to post your opinion here.

Widdershins

Deleted User wrote: »

I dunno. I've never been infracted because I keep a close grip on my inner troll. She does be chomping at the bit sometimes.

Goody two shoes. :P

Widdershins

Widdershins wrote: »

Goody two shoes. :P

*beams*

evolving_doors

Widdershins wrote: »

I hadn't noticed how many mods there are but there's some interesting discussions about moderator bias and the level of moderator involvement in threads, in one of the Feedback threads. Not that I'm telling you not to post your opinion here.

What is the level?

Too damm high.

evolving_doors

In a few years time half of Facebook members will be dead. http://www.theloop.ca/dead-facebook-users-will-soon-outnumber-the-living/

Did Mark Zuckerberg kill them off?

uck51js9zml2yt

They are banned for a reason... IE not paying mods their weekly payment if hookers and drugs..*




* This may be fake news!

Conservative

Internet bouncers.

wotzgoingon

I've been banned a few times. Few red cards but mostly yellow.

And I know someone who was banned for life from their most favourite forum so they set up a new one back in 2008. That person could have been me or maybe not. Had to write that as I was told on another forum that if you admit you opened a new account that you can be site banned again. May have or may not have been me.

osarusan

I generally enjoy seeing moaners moan about bad moderating, and this is no exception.

I also think that a lot of the time, the people bleating loudest about freedom of speech have nothing to say.

Live65a846d0ee

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can say what you like where you like when you like without consequences. Nor does it mean people MUST listen to you or platforms like this one MUST facilitate you.

I sense a strong case if Stockholm syndrome. Let me refer you to your nearest psychiatrist.

Live65a846d0ee

osarusan wrote: »

I generally enjoy seeing moaners moan about bad moderating, and this is no exception.

I also think that a lot of the time, the people bleating loudest about freedom of speech have nothing to say.

I have a lot to say but that would be an instant ban.

Jack the Stripper

Give us a sample anyway op.

Live65a846d0ee

Gebgbegb wrote: »

In a few years time half of Facebook members will be dead. http://www.theloop.ca/dead-facebook-users-will-soon-outnumber-the-living/

Did Mark Zuckerberg kill them off?

Big difference between natural death and murder.
Banning - murder
Natural death - moving on/close account

Live65a846d0ee

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

Give us a sample anyway op.

Hahaha, I am surprised I am still not banned, not looking to give any excuse which will hasten my demise but I believe it will happen sooner rather than later, I know how quick it is.

Conservative

osarusan wrote: »

I generally enjoy seeing moaners moan about bad moderating, and this is no exception.

I also think that a lot of the time, the people bleating loudest about freedom of speech have nothing to say.

Riveting.