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[Diver]

"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.

I wanted to throttle Denny on several occasions, does that count as provoked violence?

[administrator]

We are all cool with freedom of speech, this is a very relaxed board in terms of what you can say. Expat - you are now being irritating but I am not going to ban you for holding this view or not seeing the point I am trying to make.

If you start causing the mods of this forum problems or upsetting the vast majority of the forum then I will ban you. This is the way it is.

This forum is not a country. We are not contravening anyone's human rights by stopping people from posting on here. Denny has not been banged up indefinitely because of a view point she held. She has simply been banned from the forum because she became a pain in the arse, was annoying a fair few of the posters and, as Brillopad said, her behaviour was becoming worrying.

I have had two mails from Denny since the ban, the first consisted of four lines, all in capitals so I suggested to her that she may be pushing herself towards a mental breakdown by taking things so seriously. The next was one of her usual essays, trying to pick apart what we did wrong and why she is blameless. All the time making sharp comments and, in my opinion, being quite aggressive. This forum really is not worth getting this wound up about.

I am tempted to post the emails here so you can see the kind of rubbish she comes out with.

Her posts have not been edited or removed, they are there for all to see, as are my responses and reasons for banning.

I cannot say how much of this time my this wasted yesterday. I believe I have explained myself well enough not to have to reiterate this again just because some of you feel she was hard done by or banned because she did not fit in. I hope this is the last I will have to say on the subject.

[snaw]

I could care less about her getting banned. From what I've seen you've really got to push the boat out to get a ban on CUK so good riddance is all I can say.

[tay]

Are all British expats such complete muppets?

[KathyWoolfe]

If I find that a person is being contentious or boring or argumentative then I just ignore them unless it is going too far.

In that respect her being banned IMHO is just giving her the attention she wants and is counter-productive in the end because she will just repeat the same behaviour to get the same results - attention.

Having said that, I believe that the moderators did right in banning her because of the disruption caused to the rest of the forum and the amount of work that the moderators had to do to try and curb her worst excesses.

Now I have no idea whether she will be back or not but lets just try this:

If she gets annoying and bothersome, lets just ignore those particular posts and just react to her when she's being rational and reasonable like the rest of us. How about that?

[shaunbhoy]

"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.

No, that is Sedley LJ's point. If you are going to rant at least try and be original expat.

[Platypus]

I am tempted to post the emails here so you can see the kind of rubbish she comes out with.

Ohh, G'wan! G'wan! G'wan! You know you want to!

Alternatively, let her back in and stand back as she's torn to pieces by the circling dogs! That'll learn 'er.

[blacjac]

"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.

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up.

I suggest a call to your GP first, they should be able to refer you to a counciling service.

[Churchill]

Ohh, G'wan! G'wan! G'wan! You know you want to!

Alternatively, let her back in and stand back as she's torn to pieces by the circling dogs! That'll learn 'er.

I'll have to put my teeth in first...

[KathyWoolfe]

I'll have to put my teeth in first...

You have teeth? ........interesting