There has been a spate of arguments,insults and general bad feeling happening back and forth over on the Bristol Rovers board,culminating in one of our fans being banned from that board by the Rovers Mods,having had quite a bout of that last year myself,I understand how they feel and why they took the actions they did. We as mods co-operate fully with their mods but we can only take actions on our own board and no one from outside will influence us on our actions on this board,however,if any of the following takes place (racism, libelous, homophobic, inciting religious hatred etc)we will take action, after a warnig,people can be banned but with us it's only used as a last resort.. With [thankfully] only a few exceptions the banter between our two sets of fans on here has been on a good natured and civilized level, which is testament to the decent quality of members we have on here,our forum is now twice the size that it was a year ago,we are now about 13th or 14th largest on the whole forum,we are still growing and we want to keep it that way,quality with quantity. However, as with any open forum, we will inevitably experience the prose of posters whose sole intention is to wind up or aggravate supporters of the other side – WUMs, as we have coined them. Now the vast majority of us get pee’d off with WUMs when they make constant attempts to rock the boat, so here are some valuable tips to deal with them. 1. Do NOT post a reply to the thread – that’s exactly what they WANT you to do. 2. Do NOT confront the poster in person as it is likely to end in a bun-fight 3. DO send one or all of us a Private Message (PM) if you see content that you consider unacceptable (racist, libelous, homophobic, inciting religious hatred etc) 4. If a particular member is really getting on your Bristols, DO go to their profile and add them to your ignore list. Their posts will no longer appear on the screen when you are logged in – as far as you are concerned they will no longer exist. Whilst this forum does promote freedom of speech, which means that posting a WUM thread doesn’t necessarily constitute a reason for deleting said thread, I would urge all users to heed the advice above. If we all do so, then the WUMs will soon find themselves ‘talking to themselves’ as their drivel will be falling upon deaf ears (blind eyes?) As far as moderation goes, we believe in self-moderation; these boards run in the manner the majority of users want them to run on each site, not how we think it should be. At the end of the day we are just ordinary fans, using the site for enjoyment, the same as every-one else. You will therefore find us far less conspicuous than some mods and less touchy that some appear to be (I am not aiming that at anyone specific). To avoid the risk of rambling, I’ll end there, but just finish in saying: I care about our forum,our club and our fans and will do everything I can to keep harmony,so post freely,speak frankly but try to avoid getting people’s backs up, as it will probably leave you with an ever depreciating audience. We are the servants of our members but we wil attempt to moderate for all points of view.. Thanks for reading...wiz.....shiny.....angelic...
yep i agree 100% it,i do not post on the gas site,i had a quick look at the handbags yesterday, it was getting a bit heated.
Sorry, but it didn't seem any stronger than some of the stuff Chris starts on here regularly. They seem a little sensitive to me at the moment. Trawl back to the thread when you were getting fed up with them Wiz and read some of the quotes then.. some blatant hypocrisy going on here. Dont give it out if you cant take it!!
It did get a little out of hand and in all honesty I choose to wum as I can remember the grief being given out last season by numerous sags which was continuious. The mods have decided to ban me and I can only take that on the chin and put my effort into constructive comments re BCFC. I do agree that double standards have been applied here but I've more than had my fun and the tables do not lie, the sags are where they rightfully belong and long may it continue.
I'd like to point out a couple of things: 1, I agree with Wiz has said. 2, He's not been banned as far as I'm aware. CJS made a threat to ban him, but I don't think he actually has. 3, Banksy - that's cobblers. The majority of us on the Rovers board will quite happily accept any abuse and wums dealt out by you lot - it goes both ways and most of us can take it as most of you can. There will always be the odd spat now and again - you and I certainly had one not so long ago. However, there's a level of personal abuse, including thinly-veiled racism and general unpleasantness that should not be tolerated and the individual in question crossed that line. Not just now, but on previous occasions. And of course, we're getting plenty of it at the moment as we're more **** than usual. You might like to think that 'we're more sensitive than usual', but I think that that's wishful thinking on your part. Let's face it APL - as I can see that you're currently browsing this thread - you only exist to wum, it's not as if you post anything constructive on your own board. That's fair enough, but try a little less personal abuse and you might not get vilified. And I've got no idea what this Fenian nonsense is - I'm not Irish and I couldn't give a hoot what happens in Ireland, either side of the border, so quite honestly it's all going over my head. Oh, and you might want to ease up on the personal threats.
You are not banned from this board APL 2011 and the pm's you have sent to shiny and me are a fair shout,carry on supporting your team...
BB As far as I'm concerned i'm banned end of. I will not post on the sag site anymore so I feel there is no reason to follow me over to this site to carry on any debate
I wasn't following you APL, I was legitimately responding to Wiz's post - I noticed that you were browsing the thread as I was typing.
Did I miss something? Apart from posting on CJS'S milk cup thread i've never had any reason to go there, quite funny as rovers are the 2nd worse team in the whole of the football league we don't seem to have chris giving his **** out as in the past, keep it up!
I think I'll do the same thing I do when neighbours are having a domestic. Absolutely nothing, like I was before. Never been there, never will.
well lets hope we can get back to how things were and we can just move on Sorry but the above quote reminds me of this from family guy, Hilarious [video=youtube;PwfInAXxtGc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwfInAXxtGc[/video]
As a veteran of several shares boards, trust me this is nothing to what you get on there where the trolls are out in force for many different reasons... That said, I fully endorse what Wiz said, I rarely go over to the "dark side" anyway but when I have, it was never malicious and I won't visit again until they drag themselves out of the mire as I remember when we were the strongest team in the whole football league (fortunately it only lasted 1 weekend) and it wasn't very nice at all....!
it's never got as bad as wishing cancer upon someone and hoping another human being gets a brain tumour
Agreed - Gas was out of order, although his 'cancer' comment was in the context of daft general abuse and he apologised afterwards and deleted the comment. It was aimed at ROD, who I don't think took offence, but we all thought '**** - CJS ain't going to like that' after what he has very recently gone through. I'm afraid the latest spat was on a completely different level. There was some unpleasant personal threats and inferences of 'I'm gonna find out where you live' etc. etc and there's no need for that. And as far as I'm concerned that's far worse. Come on - we've taken the piss out of each other for years. But threats? That's not on.
The gas comment was aimed at me, and yes I wound him up enough but we both knew that WE went to far, we both appoligized for our part in it.
