Very quiet in here

It’s worse when it’s not obvious who the nickname is for.

it's the same as the names used for football personalities, zero need for it, it isn't funny more than once, and the person typing it is definitely sitting there high-fiving themselves with a smug grin for getting "one over" on the other side

What’s the story with anecdotes? I assumed it was where someone repeated a story they heard from a third party? I’m now banned from the current affairs because I questioned a poster getting a warning for relating how on flight from Cape Town he noticed how big a country Nigeria was and how far it was from Ireland. Are personal experiences now classed as anecdotes?

So how is someone saying they noticed how big Nigeria is when flying over it classified as an anecdote?

I suggest you PM the mod.

you think ?

There are certainly fans of most clubs who get very upset if anyone even lightly slags their club or says anything critical, but then there are people who use terms like "ManUre" to purposely antagonise people like that, and then it all descends into a he said she said, they started it ma, and the real topic is forgotten about.

The moderation on that one particular thread is nothing short of disgraceful. There’s one particular poster on that thread that breaks all the rules constantly and nothing is ever done, derails the thread and is uncivil yet can get away with their behaviour carte blanche.

I’ve also noticed that some of my posts there will just go mysteriously missing. I’ll never receive a warning or a pm from a mod, the post will just disappear. If the post had broken any site rules surely I would have been warned? Which makes me think the post was deleted just because the moderator didn’t agree with it or it hit too close to home.

They have no problem warning me…believe me.

My latest ban was for saying there was a Chinese takeaway in my town. An anecdote apparently.

There’s no point even speaking up anymore as you just get a smart arse response such as above.

Trust me, people get banned from there for infinitely less. I know, I'm one of them. And opening disputes is completely pointless.

So tonight I get threatened, merely a warning from the mod.

However, I respond to a post that is trolling, and then another post that says it's 'taking me to task' - and I get a forum ban.

This place is a disgrace. A threat gets a mere warning but me responding to someone saying they're 'taking me to task' is worthy of a ban.

There has to be something done about time-wasters here. I make a genuine effort to have a discussion and, when applicable, I back up my opinions with facts. These posts are responded to with utter contempt and yet they go unpunished. However, if I dare to respond to them, I get punished.

The timewasters run the asylum, and those who are genuinely trying to have a discussion are sanctioned.

You're talking about different posts.

I had one direct to me 'do you want to meet somewhere? DM if you do' which I see has a threat. The poster was merely warned for this. Why was I threatened? Because I said the poster was running away when he refused to even acknowledge an effort I made to expand on a point he disagreed with, after he specifically said he doesn't do this.

So, in other words, trolling. He challenged me, I wasted my time expanding on my point and he couldn't even be bothered.

You can withdraw your remark that it was merely 'a disagreement' - specifically to try and make me look daft, stupid and imply that I'm lying, thank you.

And 'the utter contempt' was one poster telling me he was 'taking me to task', that's far more than utter contempt - that's a disgraceful thing to say. My 'attacking the poster' was me saying how dare they use that type of language like my opinion is far beneath them.

This isn't disingenuous feedback. I'm on record here saying that I took a forum ban from CA on the chin. However, in Rugby, I made a genuine effort to expand on my points when I'm challenged. Lengthy posts backed up in facts, and I'm met with a mere 'ok'. That smart-holery is only going to drive people away from the forum. It's dismissive, it's expressing that my opinion is beneath theirs, and again it's trolling.

This happens all across boards. Plenty posters who make genuine efforts to expand on any point they make are being dismissed and borderline mocked with one-line smart-arse responses and nothing is done about it. Yet when a poster gets frustrated that it went through all that effort to have a genuine conversation, they get banned.

I used to give mods a bit of credit because I can't imagine how tough a job it is, but when time-wasters get away with murder it's gets harder and harder to do so, especially when I put so much time and energy into my posts to prove my point.

I'm being told to improve the quality of my posts yet people are constantly not having to improve theirs. Of course posters are going to be frustrated when the rules being forced on me, never seem to apply to them unless they threaten another poster.

EDIT: Another genuine effort made to engage despite me being called a liar, no doubt it will be dismissed with another one-line smart-arse response.