Clarity on new Current Affairs rules

Nowhere here did you 'politely ask me to "go away"' you started off your remarks by making snide irrelevant remarks about my profession, then in your next reply, accused me of being on a "strop," followed by more personal flaming & raging at me, as you would put it. You accused me of 'bullying' and told me to 'fuc'k off'

In not but a single message (the last) of yours in that exchange did you maintain remote civility. I'm glad we could clear this up since your earlier claim in this thread made it out like you had been:

I'm not the engineer so you can do the math.

[you] threw a strop when it was pointed out that the claim is not bollocks. You argue for the sake of arguing and bully people out of conversations because you are not capable of conceding a point.

You mean you contacted me via pm so you could continue your bullying. You've had your say now fuc'k off.

I won't tolerate harassment in private either and that's what you did there. I started the first PM yes but to try and understand the point you were trying to convey when we received a 0-point warning under this new rules scheme, nothing in my contact was harassment or a "crusade," I wanted to resolve our misunderstanding the admin viewed as off-topic.

We can just put each other on ignore now, but I'm happy to have had the opportunity to clarify your mischaracterization of what happened.

The removal of all CA threadbans is genuinely one of the most incomprehensible decicions imaginable as a result of the previous feedback threads.

I recall saying as much in deference to 'mod burnout' in the feedback thread. I agree. Both hard for the mods and hard for users of the thread trying to remember who is on it. It would be brilliant if vanilla supported automatically enforced threadbans though or posting permission blacklists on them.

So open the prison gates rather than impose harsher sentences? It seems a bit of a cop out that pandered to a few very vocal posters in the feedback threads while giving the fingers to all other posters.

I tried to find the 'dont be a dick rule' the other week and I couldn't find it anywhere anymore, or the one supposedly about the boards stance on inclusivity.

I think boards is like the UK at the minute, we have a constitution, it's just not written down all in the one place, or in some cases not written down at all...

Found that 'dont be a dick' rule

Home› Talkto...› Boards.ie› Boards.ie Help & Feedback› Newbies & FAQ›***READ THIS FIRST - Forum Charter (The Rules) - READ THIS FIRST***

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056307178/read-this-first-forum-charter-the-rules-read-this-first#latest

Although there's only three rules there:

1. Attack the post, never the poster
2. Don't use text speak
3. Don't be a dick

I think the inclusivity bit was just a post in a random Help Desk thread by Niamh:

a mod interjected because I wasn't using full sentences and gave a pre warning. Now you can call that what you want but at the end of the day it's just bad moderation.

Wow I hadn't realised that. It's disappointing given how slow mods were to intervene on the personal abuse such as you mention.

They do seem to have started to take some people to task, finally, but it's frankly bizarre that a lack of complete sentences should have got a more energetic response than the multiple instances of lies and abuse that were being posted on that thread.

It was inevitable. But, PLEASE, it's Meandering not off topic.

Whose line is it anyway?