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[NotAllThere]

He flounced?

Yes. See here. http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...oderation.html Which was the trigger for his ban.

[bumgardner]

Yes. See here. http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...oderation.html Which was the trigger for his ban.

I see. Reading the thread you do indeed seem to have a vendetta as SY01 suggests. Call me picky but the vendetta logo is a dead giveaway. Is this modding? I belong to many forums online, and while SY01's protestations seem childish they are valid IMHO and the board has done little to address these, but has done much to confirm his suspicions.

Why is this?

[fckvwls]

I see. Reading the thread you do indeed seem to have a vendetta as SY01 suggests. Call me picky but the vendetta logo is a dead giveaway.

Another cretinous sockie with no sense of humour.

Is this modding? I belong to many forums online, and while SY01's protestations seem childish they are valid IMHO and the board has done little to address these, but has done much to confirm his suspicions.

Why is this?

Complete BS imho.

[administrator]

Victim mentality, hardly. I stood up for myself and got an infraction for it!

Troll somewhere else, and get some vowels for **** sake.

Your reaction to the infraction is what has led to the ban. Completely OTT and to then throw abuse at a moderator and call me weak is hardly doing you any favours now is it?

NAT has explained the rules of the forum as I see them and I think it is fair enough. He is also right in saying that we all (mods) discussed this and decided we would ban when you returned as your PM had a heavy dose of flounce and you also said you were off on holiday. No point banning you when you would not be here to enjoy it.

The forum is supposed to be a bit of fun, taking an infraction as seriously as this is a little disturbing to say the least. I think perhaps you are in need of a holiday, you certainly could do with lightening up a bit.

Have banned your sock puppets. V poor show.

[NickFitz]

The point here is what is an acceptable post and what isn't. Discounting the sockies coming back as 'different' posters, there does seem to be an inconsistency of treatment depending on the ID of the poster.

Please publish the rules. Now, if the rules are 'we don't like you cos you annoy people' then I believe we should know that. Publically. Just so we all know what consitutes annoying.
I realise this argument may be dismissed because it is well known that I get on fine with SY01.
I do, however, feel that the main issue here is the lack of clarity on the posting rules and I would like it to be addressed.

Shoot!

The rules are linked to at the top of the forum home page, in bold, underlined:

...all users should read the Terms & Conditions before posting

I assume that SY01 got his temporary ban either through breaching the bit that says "Do not post or otherwise make available any content that harasses or is threatening, abusive or defamatory" or more likely the bit specifically about the Social forums: "We operate a more relaxed attitude in these forums. We do not appreciate trolling or seeking to purposefully annoy other users of these areas though. We ask that you tolerate other forum users and if you do not like other users’ behaviour or posting habits then do not interact with them."

I would point out that the deletion of the "MF is a big girl" thread seems to go against the assertion that "It is against our policy to delete threads after they have replies, so do not ask us to delete threads once they have attracted attention" but I don't really want to get dragged into this unseemly brawl, so I won't

[NotAllThere]

The idea that there is any kind of singling out of SY01, or personal vendetta against him is totally ridiculous. The vendetta logo is simply irony.

His thread was moved because it was pointless, and we'd received a number of reports about it. He got an infraction - which is nothing but a database entry - and a request to resist the urge in future. He then escalated it, was told to let go, didn't, got a temporary ban. At any point he could have just packed it in, and normal service would have resumed.

In the past three months, I issued, IIRC, 1 infraction (this one), and moved four threads. Not much really in the way of victimisation.

[Boudica]

as usual arriving late i've missed all the booze food and fireworks

[Boudica]

To give credit where it's due, SY01 did live up to his reputation rather spectacularly.

i keep getting him confused with the other chap who was banned, i keep thinking his name was scrotum but that was just the name i had for him...

[NotAllThere]

Note to self. Must not engage with sockies.

[ctdctd]

FFS - I go to the pub and come back to find Luton has been banned.

Shirley it would be more fun to leave Luton here as a plaything?

Oh well, Dunstable is still, mainly lurking, here.