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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Calamty Jane, Jun 22, 2013.

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  1. HullCityAFC1904

    HullCityAFC1904 Well-Known Member

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    It was over-moderated, I had experience of that myself. I like this site but they have a general area for people wanting to make risque comments so why not use that area for threads like the one which was closed today instead of the football page which has a broad mix of people using it?
     
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  2. DMD

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    Because it doesn't seem to be what most posters want, nor is it what the site owner set the site up for.
     
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  3. HullCityAFC1904

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    You or the other moderator could have moved the thread that was closed to that section maybe? I wouldn't have a problem with that? Like the person who made this thread says I don't think most people really want to see threads with headers referring to 'crazy chinks' and stuff like that. People either wont contribute or wont use the board.
     
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  4. HullCityAFC1904

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    I was referring to 'fishthetigers' post specifically
     
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  5. DMD

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    I can only repeat the previous replies, but one element of your argument was already adressed by another mod before I even saw the thread.
     
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  6. PLT

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    The old 606 was ridiculously heavy-handed in terms of moderating. You couldn't criticise anyone or anything. I got threads deleted because I pointed out that I didn't like going to Stoke to have bottles and bricks thrown at me. No swearing or anything, just the mere accusation that violent acts took place was enough to delete threads.
     
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  7. HullCityAFC1904

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    To be honest I think most people selectively ignore stuff they don't want to see but sometimes its hard to do that when its actually in the title of a thread. Thanks for the replies anyhow. Be nice if it was more about football than stuff like this really.
     
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    It was too much then again it did deal with just about everything. What I hated there was you had to wait 5 minutes between posts.
     
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  9. DMD

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    There's no problem with raising issues on how the board is moderated. We try to keep it in the background, but it's not our board, it belongs to the people using it. We just tidy up.
     
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  10. Stuart Blampey

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    I started that 'Crazy chinks!' thread and prefaced it with an O/T.

    The intention was to show the bizarre story of parents demanding that their kids be allowed to cheat and kicking off with the invigilators.

    I'd like to think that most people on here are brave enough and tough enough to have read the title without feeling persecuted, victimized, traumatized etc , and that they can see it was 'racy' title rather than a sombre moralistic one.

    (Did you hear about the bloke who asked the chinky lass for some 69?)
     
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  11. chien

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    Not sure if it's been posted but the owner of the site is responsible for all content written on the forum as he is the one hosting it, not to say the person writing comments wouldn't get into **** too.
     
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  12. Stuart Blampey

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    Isn't he 'offshore'?

    Is he a 'Yank'?

    (Oh ****, I've done it again! )
     
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  13. Stuart Blampey

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    It's the close season so there are bound to be more O/T threads than usual.

    I give the ones I find boring a wide berth (usually transfer speculation, 'my team for saturday' bollocks, social media or computer game stuff).

    Not sure I would ask them to be banned, I just avoid wasting my time clicking on them.
     
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  14. Stuart Blampey

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    Oh, and it's 'anonymity', by the way.....
     
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    Chinks, Krauts, Pakis, all in common parlance(in some circles), all unnecessary and rather pathetic.

    As has been mentioned already, it screams 'look at me', it's a pointless use of a derogatory term.

    I think the moderation on here remains very balanced, the old 606 was shockingly bad, I'm still getting emails now to tell me my posts have just been deleted ffs.
     
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  16. Stuart Blampey

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    Chink is not derogatory per se.

    Is Yorkie derogatory?

    It's the context and intention which determine this.
     
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    I think you have to take racist comments with a pinch of salt, people are only writing this for Attention and the shock and awe value! If that person didn't have that anonymity you wouldn't see it posted. I posted my name and address on here (stupid thing to do) To prove i stick by what i say and what i would say to a person in the street. But if you wanted to get people information from this site you wouldn't have to try hard to get it unless they are using guerrilla mail account.

    On a whole i think the site is managed well on this board and the mods (at times i dont agree) do a good job.
     
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  18. originallambrettaman

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    As someone who spent 20% of the year in Hong Kong, every year for ten years and someone who has spent several weeks in Hong Kong every year for the past thirty years, I can tell you that the Chinese find 'chinky' just as offensive as those from Pakistan find 'paki'.

    As I count some of them amongst my best friends, I find it equally offensive.
     
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  19. Stuart Blampey

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    Interesting.


    http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/...-‘embarrassing’-racial-attitudes/

    Maybe you only met a small fraction of the hypocritical locals?
     
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