Reservoir Dubs

I presume it being down is related to the news story that can't be spoken of right now

resdubwhite wrote: »

Its down because of hosting issues

Cheers, hopefully be up again soon so

Its a pity alright.
A temporary stop on new registrations and a temporary "Zero Tolerance Or Perm Ban" policy might at least keep it going, until the issues are resolved.

And then came the blasted sundayworld! There'll be a lot of ressers very frustrated that they can't share their joy from yesterday. Must be a very untrustworthy bunch though...

Admins are within their rights to do whatever they like!

Agree with zero tolerance (this week!).

Wouldn't agree with "pulling out the plug" as a method of moderation, but that's just my opinion, and sure we all have them

The Rooster wrote: »

A few hours to go before the Dubs play their first NFL final in Croker in 18 years, hoping to win their first national title in 16 years.

Excitement building for Dubs fans. Although unfortunately for Reservoir Dubs posters the admins hold them in such disregard that they have had the site down for over 48 hours now. Build up - what build up??!!

Is it just pure laziness on their part? I dunno. I do know there are some mods who are absolute top blokes, and who I know for a fact disagree with the "let's just cop out and plug it out" approach, and who'd prefer (and be willing) to just delete any threads/comments about the issue we are rightly not allowed talk about on this or any other forum, and ban the offenders.

But unfortunately those who make the decisions have decided, for a while anyway, that having to delete the very occassional post on the issue is just too much trouble.

A real pity as there are a lot of great posters on the site, and there are a few Cork lads who post too and are good for a bit of banter.

Hopefully the admins will have a change of heart soon and get the great site back up running again shortly.

That's completely unfair imo. It's the admins that have to deal with any legal issues that may arise from any libelous or defamatory comments posted there. Whether that's the reason for the site currently being down or whether it's something else, it's entirely up to the owners of the site. They're providing a service free of charge and are under absolutely no obligation to continue to do so.

An Citeog wrote: »

That's completely unfair imo. It's the admins that have to deal with any legal issues that may arise from any libelous or defamatory comments posted there. Whether that's the reason for the site currently being down or whether it's something else, it's entirely up to the owners of the site. They're providing a service free of charge and are under absolutely no obligation to continue to do so.

Fair enough, that's your opinion. In my opinion that's hyperbole and nonsense.

The likes of boards and gaaboard and everyone else can carry on, without resorting to "plugging it out". If legal action is going to be taken I'm sure they'll go after the newspapers where names were named rather than discussions forums where posts were deleted and offenders banned.

Of course the admins are under no obligation to continue, and are fully entitled to make up whatever excuses they like. Equally I am allowed to express my opinion in a civil manner.

DubOnHoliday wrote: »

you´ve the wrong end of the stick completely and are out of order as you dont know whats going on.

Sorry, that's right. I forgot all about the "scheduled maintenance", "hosting issues" and "database problems". Its just been one unfortunate coincidence after another

dcr22B wrote: »

That's what we have up on the website and we don't have to explain ourselves to anyone. Believe me, I'm missing it as much as anyone else this week of all weeks.

Regardless of the reasons that sort out attitude is hardly going to endear you to your community is it?

The Rooster wrote: »

Sorry, that's right. I forgot all about the "scheduled maintenance", "hosting issues" and "database problems". Its just been one unfortunate coincidence after another

Take away your quotes and youŕe correct. Again I have to ignore your last comment as youŕe pulling answers out of thin air , seems like you´re set on the conspiracy theory, have fun with that.

DubOnHoliday wrote: »

Take away your quotes and youŕe correct. Again I have to ignore your last comment as youŕe pulling answers out of thin air , seems like you´re set on the conspiracy theory, have fun with that.

Yeah, yeah You already admitted earlier the real reason behind the downtime.

DubOnHoliday wrote: »

the admins are well within their rights to exercise a zero tolerance approach.

Another mod said it even straighter than that, but then deleted his post.

Conspiracy theories, porkies, exaggerations or whatever, I couldnt care less about.

I have huge respect for the posters on resdubs, sometimes you'd wonder if the admins have the same. I just hope the great site gets back up soon

It's back up now. I can't see any posts referring to why it was down, but I was chatting to one of the site bigwigs in Croker yesterday and he said that the county board aren't happy with some of the stuff that is being posted, and the GAA are now trying to clamp down on some of the internet sites.

Gingy wrote: »

I was chatting to one of the site bigwigs in Croker yesterday and he said that the county board aren't happy with some of the stuff that is being posted, and the GAA are now trying to clamp down on some of the internet sites.

Obviously the GAA can only clamp down on their own sites!

"the county board aren't happy" could mean that its just one or two voiceferous individuals rather than the every official.

In any event, they've no right to stop fans having their say. I'm sure some officials would love to have the administrators of fan sites in their back pocket, but resdubs is not an official site of Dublin GAA, and equally anyone who makes a comment on resdubs is doing so in their own capacity and it doesnt represent the views of the resdubs administrators.

A few years back I was chatting with a former Dublin selector who's also a big wig in his club. A really nice guy usually, and he's done heaps for GAA in the county. But we got to talking about resdubs he went completely unreasonable and talked all sorts of nonsense about the wrongs that were being said there, and he said he had contacted the owners of the site about a few issues. But when I challenged him on what exactly was upsetting him, it was clear it was mostly just down to his personal opinion being different to someone else's. He couldnt care less where people criticised him, but when they criticised players who played under him, he really took it badly!

jjj12 wrote: »

is reservoir dubs down again?

Nope

Just spotted this thread. Have to say - Reservoir dubs is a great site - plenty of intelligent discussion on both GAA and non GAA matters. Fair play to the admins / mods over there for keeping it going for the benefit of others. Long may it continue!!

jjj12 wrote: »

Sorry to annoy people with this thread. Still banned from the site and have tried to pm a few people from the site that are on here but none have got back to me.

You have a PM.

MarysMan wrote: »

I can't still get in lads - anyone else having similar issues?

Yip, still down.

Unusually, its not just the forum, its the whole site (usually when the forum is down you can still get onto the index page of the site, i.e. reservoirdubs.com).

The admin on the site has got incredible cranky over the last couple of months, but hopefully its nothing to do with that and this is a temporary issue.

it's odd;

i can ping the site but it aint resolving for the browser....