Abuse on AH

BillyBoy13 · 2014-01-25 16:02:52

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…

25-01-2014 05:02PM

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BillyBoy13

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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?

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#2 25-01-2014 05:04PM

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Simple attack the post not the poster...

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#3 25-01-2014 05:04PM

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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.

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#4 25-01-2014 05:05PM

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If you try and rationalise mods enforcing rules

You're gonna have a bad time.

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#5 25-01-2014 05:05PM

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What if the poster is a tool?

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#6 25-01-2014 05:06PM

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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?

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#7 25-01-2014 05:06PM

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

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#8 25-01-2014 05:06PM

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Plot twist - Frada is Mary Harney.

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#9 25-01-2014 05:07PM

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Even greedy corrupt politicians have feelings.

And cash.

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#10 25-01-2014 05:08PM

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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

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#11 25-01-2014 05:11PM

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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

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#12 25-01-2014 05:12PM

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They touched my special area

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#13 25-01-2014 05:14PM

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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.

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#14 25-01-2014 05:16PM

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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'

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#15 25-01-2014 05:17PM

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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.

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#16 25-01-2014 05:25PM

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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...

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#17 25-01-2014 05:27PM

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

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#18 25-01-2014 05:30PM

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Mary Harney jokes are very 2005,

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#19 25-01-2014 05:30PM

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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...

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#20 25-01-2014 05:34PM

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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?

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#21 25-01-2014 05:35PM

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That Frada is a smug bastard

...And now we play the waiting game.

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#22 25-01-2014 05:37PM

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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.

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#23 25-01-2014 05:40PM

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Ryan Tubridy had an account, according to this.

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

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#24 25-01-2014 05:46PM

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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:

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#25 25-01-2014 05:49PM

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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

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#26 25-01-2014 05:54PM

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Omar Frada coming.

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#27 25-01-2014 05:59PM

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darkpagandeath wrote: »

Simple attack the post not the poster...

This.

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

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#28 25-01-2014 06:00PM

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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

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#29 27-01-2014 05:39PM

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krudler wrote: »

Frada is a real person though

Allegedly.

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#30 27-01-2014 05:43PM

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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:

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#31 27-01-2014 06:07PM

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Vito Corleone wrote: »

Plot twist - Frada is Mary Harney.

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

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