Pete's response was amusing, despite his account not having a restrriction on it this last week or two.....he suddenly decides to post when the politics thread is removed. Hence highlighting, people only turn up to cause trouble. cue crazed mod: "you can't point out reality on here! we are a reality free zone"
There were two boards that were originally unmoderated. This one and GC. You talk as if personal insults were the sole preserve of the Politics thread. That’s ridiculous!..
That doesn't counter what I said. And no I'm saying it takes it to a new level and that it does spill out across the board. I'm sure there's a politics thread on GC where you can go and still call Brexit voters thick ****s if you want to mate.
There are no new levels for insults on this board. I’ve seen as bad and worse in some of the spats on here. And not on the Politics thread either!
Was racism and calling each other nonces regular occurrences on this board pre that thread? The answer is no.
Try looking at some of the things Matth gets called, for starters. He’s been called a nonce and worse! Racism? Have a word with Kustard
Did you know Custard was a racist before that thread? I don't ever remember him saying anything racist before that. Don't remember anyone challenging him on it either. And yes Matth does get called things like that which is my point, it's normalised that sort of **** on here.
Kustard was posting racist **** long before he found a home on the politics thread! The worst thing about that thread was it brought the Hull ****s to the PL board. Two utterly vile individuals.
Nonsense. You’re looking to blame the Politics thread for everything. Most of the worst insults chucked at Matth ( and some at Hiag) come from those who very rarely posted on the thread. Naming no names.
Yes we know Stan, only the leavers contributed to the state of the thread. The remainers were only there for serious political discussion. I'm assuming you've got some examples of Kustard?
That's it in a nutshell. The very thing that was the problem, it was only the leavers to blame for the problems on the thread. Because remainers would always agree with alternate views, and acknowledge other people's points, even if they didn't agree, they would never try and belittle or devalue opposite opinions. No sireeee.
Sure, this was one of his classics - "Work in Brum, I would never live in a town unless in majority christian and English born" https://www.not606.com/threads/slowvans-shambles-vs-slavens-spanners.325123/page-4#post-9025226
Speaking personally, I’m happy to debate with any reasonable minded, knowledgeable leaver. But if you post ill informed nonsense, I’m gonna point it out. If that offends, sorry!
So long before is mid march before the referendum and on the United board? Fair enough though I'll give you that one. The point is before that thread although this board is unmodded we had unwritten rules which people generally adhered to and brb very rarely needed to step in. Then the politics thread comes in and people pick their sides and the insults spiral between both sides with people getting more and more personal and more people complaining to brb as a result. It then normalises that behaviour and encourages other like minded people to act in that way. Would you have ever gone to the effort of creating fake twitter accounts mimicking another poster over a football argument?
So if someone is of a lessor intelligent than yourself, you think that is a good excuse to insult them. Sorry mate, I didn't realise people needed degrees to post on a football forum.
