THAT Rickie Lambert Interview

I feel personally insulted and shouted down.

 

Hang on guys, have you banned Dan? Really? C'mon.....

 

And Joe.

 

Yeah, unless there's something rather massive missing from this picture, that's absurd in the extreme.

 

Don't think we should be getting involved but personally I think that's harsh.

 

Gonna get my popcorn...

 

Beefy's corner will be a quiet place now...

 

DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING.

I'm with the others. I don't agree.

 

Given enough time and it will just be me And the mods

 

The back and forth was a bit daft, but banning? That's too much.

 

Maybe they were banned by the powers that be because they reported each others comments

 

Wasn't as if they were genuinely having an argument or slinging names...it was the lightest of light silliness.

Also, while I'm sure that an explanation is forthcoming, might I suggest in the future that, when banning fairly prominent long-time members over exceedingly mild circumstances, that an explanation accompanies rather than follows? This isn't the first time that it has happened, and it never goes well.

 

Before PMs start being sent around as well, I do very strongly feel that this is the sort of thing (and action) that can and should be debated openly amongst all of us. It's fairly clear when someone has done something against the rules, racist, sexist, or particularly offensive - and then the subsequent ban is relatively obvious. However, this is draconian - nobody has been offended here. Joe and Dan could have been just told to stop in a PM. People have done far, far worse and been way more offensive to other members of the forum without being banned.

 

Yep it started when my joking post to Osvaldorama got deleted and I got msged by a mod. You could see my post was actually a joke as well. He was saying how he was gettin abuse for some of his comments. I jokingly called him a dickhead with a smilie face just to make sure he knew it was a joke.

 

#BanBeefy

 

Indeed. For a long time, I moderated two of the most fractious fora on a message board that has a reputation for being a complete madhouse. The sort of place where a fairly heavy hand was sometimes warranted, but if I suspended/banned people over something this mild, I'd have rightly been run out of town...and probably by the other moderators as much as the common users. Even if this is a temporary thing to 'send a message', I'd suggest that it's sending an entirely different message than the one intended.

 

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What an odd turn of events.

 

Tricky job, moderating.

 

Now that is offensive. Would you care to retract that Pie?