banned

[EternalOptimist]

Do you have to critize the mods? I think they do a great job.

They gave a verbose explanation - which they did not have to do.

No, of course I dont have to. And during the course of many a sh1tey contract I have kept my gob shut and bit the bullet. I dont cause a fuss and never have, probably never will

but...

I thought there was something odd about a position where its ok to brag about being hard nosed and tough, then to ban someone because she didnt tow the line, or wasnt one of us.


maybe its just me

[51st State]

No, of course I dont have to. And during the course of many a tulipey contract I have kept my gob shut and bit the bullet. I dont cause a fuss and never have, probably never will

but...

I thought there was something odd about a position where its ok to brag about being hard nosed and tough, then to ban someone because she didnt tow the line, or wasnt one of us.

maybe its just me

toe

It is just you. Next.

[EternalOptimist]

toe

yes

[tay]

toe

yes

You forgot your hilarious and witty

[EternalOptimist]

You forgot your hilarious and witty

listen mate
I dont normally resort to violence, but take this
<thwack>
and this
<crunch>
and some of this
<knurgle>

pause for breath - and now some abusive threats

'come near my bird again and you get some more ok?'

'that ok wif you den?'

<thump>
<kick>
<etc>

let that be a lesson

[administrator]

No, of course I dont have to. And during the course of many a tulipey contract I have kept my gob shut and bit the bullet. I dont cause a fuss and never have, probably never will

but...

I thought there was something odd about a position where its ok to brag about being hard nosed and tough, then to ban someone because she didnt tow the line, or wasnt one of us.

maybe its just me

Not banned because she was not "one of us" - she was one of us, we are all a bit mental in our own way.

She was banned because she caused a nightmare for mods and admins, we are all happy to discuss things but threads devoted to the fact that we are not running the forum correctly or are too aggressive. Do you really expect someone to post stuff like this and us say "Yes, you are right, from now on we will do and act as you say. Please forgive us."?

She was a trouble maker and a loon as far as I am concerned. She was casting a cloud over the forum and making it a depressing place to be.

She made the job of moderating the forum much harder and more time consuming and it was due to this that she was banned.

[administrator]

When apartheid South Africa had what they called "banning", I always thought that a banning said more about the powers that did it, than about those who were banned for saying things that powers didn't want to hear.

Nice one expat. She had made her point about agression, a moderator had commented on how it is around here and she still carried on. Other forum users explained why things are like they are here but still she wanted to be right and for people to act how she wanted them to act. We heard what she had to say and all the threads are there for people to read. If she had made her point and moved on she would still be here. As it is she banged on for too long and got canned as a result. That is all there is to it.

[Diver]

Nice one expat. She had made her point about agression, a moderator had commented on how it is around here and she still carried on. Other forum users explained why things are like they are here but still she wanted to be right and for people to act how she wanted them to act. We heard what she had to say and all the threads are there for people to read. If she had made her point and moved on she would still be here. As it is she banged on for too long and got canned as a result. That is all there is to it.

Hear Hear

[expat]

I may be reading too much into this but are you seriously comparing the moderators of ContractorUK with the Apartheid govenment of South Africa?


If so then you need help

"Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having." -- Sedley LJ

That is my point.

[BrilloPad]

"Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having." -- Sedley LJ

That is my point.

Does it include going on and on and on and on like the duracell bunny?

I think the mods did her a favour - else she might have worked herself into a nervous breakdown. And what for?