I honestly dont give a **** who gets it, well thats a lie, I do actually, but as long as someone gets it, and its someone sensible, then I will be happy.
I think it's a terrible idea personally. What is this 'spokesperson' going to do anyway other than be accused of grassing and taking sides ? The nuances on this board are too partisan for anybody to have the ability to be seen as being impartial. As a mod, I'm sure you're aware of this. When you make a decision to try and calm things down, half the people accuse you of being a dictator because they don't like your decision. There are too many opposing views to find a middle ground that everybody agrees on. Take this whole HIAG thing for example, some people think he's being hounded and targeted, others think he's simply getting his arse handed back to him for his crap wumming. The only middle ground that I think would realistically work is to say, if you don't like it on here, don't come on here.
I think brb just doesn't want the hassle of people grassing each other up. So, if he appoints a spokesman the idea is that it all goes through him - or her. That's why Sky is perfect. He's a lazy **** and will leave everybody to just get on with things. Everybody's happy!
First of all, this spokesperson would need to not give two ****s about being accused of taking sides. There are opinions and there are facts. As far as HIAG, both statements you made are true. He is being hounded and targeted regardless of whether he WUMs or not, BUT when he does WUM, he gets his arse handed back to him and comes out with ridiculous statements about being a WUM master etc. The problem is, when he ISN'T wumming, the bile towards him spills on to other threads and makes things toxic. People just cannot leave their **** at the door. If HIAG made a WUM thread (Like the Leicester spiral thread for example), he can expect to get the piss ripped out of him in that thread, and rightly so, because it was ****ing stupid. BUT, if he then makes a sensible comment on another thread about something entirely separate and cocks chime in and start ribbing him for **** he said in the Spiral thread, then it becomes a problem.......it really wouldn't be too hard.
Would bother me. It's just another twat I can constantly rip the piss out of. Because that is what this "spokesperson" job would be - an open invitation to have the piss ripped continually. It would be this site's equivalent of pinning a "KICK ME HARD" sign on the poor bastard's back. Plus, who the **** would want to be labelled "spokesperson" and yet not be given any real power? You'd be like one of those sad bastard traffic wardens who always dreamed about being a copper but was too thick to pass the entrance exam. I wouldn't want to be a "spokesperson" for Bambi. No one can understand what the ****er says, half the time.
that's HIAG's whole posting modus encapsulated in one sentence ... I guess he left Polly with no choice? ... I had no idea ... hope he still has access to the Landscape Gardening board ... where his grass patterning traits will be better apreciated
The problem with that is that you've already seen where HIAG will cry victim even when people are trying to engage him in sensible debate. Good luck to whoever became a spokesperson, because he'd be tagging them 24/7 365
