Free the Commie 1
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Free the Commie 1
Just posting on the golf thread made me realise we're still missing the ginger one (ok, I realise 79% of posters on here are ginger)
New season, time for a long overdue amnesty?
New season, time for a long overdue amnesty?
Re: Free the Commie 1
I don't think threads like this are fair, reallyfatshaft wrote:Just posting on the golf thread made me realise we're still missing the ginger one (ok, I realise 79% of posters on here are ginger)
New season, time for a long overdue amnesty?
If you want him back, maybe a pm to admin
I'll join you
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...and in truth, most of the admin/mods know that, and turn a blind eye...correctly imho.TANGODANCER wrote:Most of the banned folk are probably still here anyway, just using other names.FD wrote:Not a fan of this kind of thread personally, but I'm all for amnesties, as long as they are extended to everyone.
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I think also, that often when people suggest a ban be lifted, they're not in the position of having had to moderate the particular person in the first place and deal with any fall out that was caused.keveh wrote:The main problem with anything like this is that if you unban on person you then have to do it for many others.
Given that (as far as I know) bans are handed out after repeated requests not to wind folk up which again all need consideration/activity by mods, by suggesting we should lift bans, doesn't reflect the fact that doing so, probably creates work for someone else.
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Commie isn't. He actually couldn't be arsed coming back anyway.TANGODANCER wrote:Most of the banned folk are probably still here anyway, just using other names.FD wrote:Not a fan of this kind of thread personally, but I'm all for amnesties, as long as they are extended to everyone.
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How do you set the bans, if you don't mind me asking, I assume you don't have to remember to un-ban somebody, more you set a date when they can return? Perhaps one suggestion would be a year-long ban as a final resort, that way people who do care enough to remember to come back might not be lost forever. That said, as Brucie says, I imagine the ones who are really that bothered are back under different names, and the others aren't that bothered in the grand scheme of life and that. Also I'd imagine for most a three-month ban is enough to weed out the trollers.
Well that felt like a nice waste of time and bandwidth.
Well that felt like a nice waste of time and bandwidth.
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Agreed. There are small words, then bigger words, then proper warnings, then a short suspension, then a longer suspension all before a final ban. Even then, the ban may get lifted.Worthy4England wrote:I think also, that often when people suggest a ban be lifted, they're not in the position of having had to moderate the particular person in the first place and deal with any fall out that was caused.keveh wrote:The main problem with anything like this is that if you unban on person you then have to do it for many others.
Given that (as far as I know) bans are handed out after repeated requests not to wind folk up which again all need consideration/activity by mods, by suggesting we should lift bans, doesn't reflect the fact that doing so, probably creates work for someone else.
So, when you get a lifer he/she has persistently and notably misbehaved.
I have no idea what Commie did, but I presume, from the above, he more than pushed the envelope.
Itrust the mods in these areas.
Plus ... even there was a return for him there'd be a return for others, far less savoury & more persistant offenders, which would not be good in my view.
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He vigorously researched the points that he made, and ridiculed those that hadn’t taken similar trouble. That, apparently, is a dismissible offence if you can’t keep upbobo the clown wrote:I have no idea what Commie did, but I presume, from the above, he more than pushed the envelope.
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Alright, which one of you is Batman?FD wrote:...and in truth, most of the admin/mods know that, and turn a blind eye...correctly imho.TANGODANCER wrote:Most of the banned folk are probably still here anyway, just using other names.FD wrote:Not a fan of this kind of thread personally, but I'm all for amnesties, as long as they are extended to everyone.
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Fair enough, I'll see him at the golf if I'm thereBruce Rioja wrote:Commie isn't. He actually couldn't be arsed coming back anyway.TANGODANCER wrote:Most of the banned folk are probably still here anyway, just using other names.FD wrote:Not a fan of this kind of thread personally, but I'm all for amnesties, as long as they are extended to everyone.
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