I look at the likes for my post and to some extent I think thank you, but I also wonder why. This board lost the plot (for me) when a moderator banned me outside of his usual parameters, simply because I disagreed with him. No way was it worthy; just a question, a difference of opinion and mutual dislike.
That's done and dusted, as far as I am concerned, but our moderators really do need to get a grip. This isn't Twitter (a failing medium), this is about conversation, opinion, point of view - being in-the-know does not make you good or right, being succinct might just indicate you have little to offer. I have, over the years, been toldto use PM, but what a convenient joke that is for our moderators.
When you have folk, who dislike each other so much, it is difficult to keep a sensible balance in conversation and moderation.
This isn't Twitter, the Witch-Hunt on Roo was ****, he had a point, just not everyone's.
It's easy to be abusive on here, for some, isn't it?
Best post of the month! Thank you for being brave enough to make a stand against the bad-boy minority!
Our local "moderator" once declined the moderator job, or pretended to, saying it would force him to curtail expressing his own views. He was fairly good for quite a long time after (reluctantly?) taking the (admittedly very difficult) job, but recently he's been back to his real self, actually JOINING IN with the little clique of mutually-"liking" cyber-bullies that attempt to dominate this forum. They know who they are (and so do most of the silent majority on here).
This is, or should be, and used to be, a brilliant forum, with a large number of remarkably excellent and highly diverse contributors. Unfortunately, it is being progressively taken over by a few anonymous nobodies whose sole agenda in their every post seems to be to cram as many foul-mouthed expletives as possible into one "sentence". Do these proud keyboard warriors use the same language at home? In front of their children? Or their parents? If not, why not?
It's regrettable that some of our newest contributors have entered this forum using the same gutter language, obviously thinking this is a condition of entry. Big Mod, Ric, it's time for you to step in and clean up this FOOTBALL forum.
to use PM, but what a convenient joke that is for our moderators.