I steer well clear of there so haven't seen it, but would it be reasonable to infer that he did that in response to you breaking your resolution?
That would depend on how you'd define playing chess with a pigeon, he posted a snide remark and I responded with ' Get ****ed' and it seems that was enough to remove me. So, I'd say no I didn't break my resolution, this bloke's just a bit of a prick. To be fair, I nearly removed myself last week, as it's infested with halfwits, so no biggie.
Fair enough. The online community does seem to attract more than its fair share of little dictators who want validation from their own echo chambers. I'll carry on ignoring that one.
Hope that never happens on here. Imagine a site where posts are deleted and threads locked because they don’t meet with someone’s approval.
If we banned people for posting ‘get ****ed’, there’d be very little traffic on here, but obviously we’re not that petty. You don’t know how lucky you are.
I almost put my answer to that question in my post, but for me there’s a pretty clear difference. Whilst not in your league, I have had posts on here deleted or moved into their own threads for being political or, more painfully, for being boring. But neither were about football or, more specifically, Hull City. So that seems like a reasonable response by a moderator on a Hull City forum to irrelevant posts. Now you could make a case that our moderation is inconsistent, but for me unless you’re the BBC, or The Times or whoever, and have paid moderators who check posts before they actually appear that’s inevitable with the unpaid and untrained moderators having day jobs and other distractions that make them slower to respond to some issues than others. If on the other hand I posted something that politely disagreed with one of the moderators about whether Greaves was ever that good, say, and got banned for it then I’d say that was unreasonable and symptomatic of the echo chamber mentality.
Nice one. Other than mountaineers or the Yorkshire Ripper, very few realize an ice pick and axe co-exist on the same shaft. However, I prefer to use a blow torch to defrost my windscreen over 'ere.
Well it's looking increasingly likely it will bring my time in West Yorkshire to a close (minus the odd day in the Leeds office). Offer accepted on a house in Hull earlier today.
I tried doing missionary work. But you can only do so much before giving up and returning to civilisation.
