[Closed] What's the point in bannings?

... and don is still here despite using the forum to complain about being banned.

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My original persona got a lifetime ban for suggesting the STW UI was a bit poor on another forum - yep not even a post on this one. I even got hate mail from die hard STWers who were so upset by my comments (which were very very mild). I then got a long letter from the original forum coder, who was so upset that someone had suggested his creation was less than perfect.

The whole thing was just insane - some people take life and the internet especially way too seriously!

So as far as I can work out, bannings are much more about bruised egos than anyone doing anything offensive....

Bad pun!

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konabunny - Member

Bad pun!
Posted 7 minutes ago # Report-Post

How very dare it.

can we not just get a list of the serially outraged compulsive post reporting types and put those people in stocks for public humiliation..

maybe something involving wasps..

im outraged by your post yunki

I had a post removed and an email from the Mods because someone reported something as racism which very clearly was not.

It's ironic because I was pointing out the hypocricy of patronising people of colour.

Doubly ironic because it was TJ I was having a pop at.

Triply ironic because TJ had a warning/banning for doing exactly the same thing and then moaning about that.

And I'm pretty sure it was TJ that did the complaining, wasnt it chummy?

wrecker - Member
Any advances on 13 in 12 months? Anyone reckon they can beat it?

I've had a few in a week after a mod clamp-down, 3 bans in recent months too?

Much of what I did is also done by others with no post-removal or bannings.

McBoo - I was not banned. I was warned off using a certain phrase that I had used ironically and is infact the name of one of the posters on here.

If you were banned then in the eyes of the mods you deserved it and you do not get banned for a first offence usually. I do not complain or moan if I get warned or banned.

so it was you who reported me was it 🙂

i got a warning for using a joke that 'is old and tired'

dezb is old and tired but he's not banned

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(i luvs ya really debz, you grey sideburned sexy beast)

i got a warning for using a joke that 'is old and tired'

That's a good use of warnings. No problem with that. I'd have banhammered you.

Ban is for breaking the rules just like Contador.

lol i kinda agreed with the warning, i didnt even find it funny as i posted it!

i remember being banned for my friends pole dancing video, which wasnt remotely sexual, but spurfmatthew made a comment about her lack of boobs and i'm the one who got banned! ever since i've hated surfers and their mysogymathingy ways.

It's been a bit quiet I thought after the mass bannings after the bike show and did wonder if they were having a bit of a clean up splurge, I've come to accept the bans here, didn't like it at first since none of the other forums I visit save one are moderated and none as harshly as this one.

It certainly has the air of the classroom about it which is hardly surprising if you consider the provenance.

I've never been warned before a ban, it just happens and often when I least expect it, kind of just when I thought I'd settled in and had found the 'flow' of the place.

I think I've had about five bans in the four months or so I've been here so I'm on par for that 13 in 12 record if it is a target. I can't remember exactly what they're for, the last was swear filter avoidance which is a tad childish imv

Then again as I said else where, there are lots of children here. ( Children = anyone under 39).

The worse thing for me however was being told I'd caused someone to be banned, that really upset me so the next ban I accepted as Karma.

It does however artificially alter the demographic a tad, making it a cosy warm feely place for lefty kids who can't ride good, rather than the traditional rufty tufty sweary laddish culture that used to be the norm for off road biker types, so it is unique from that perspective.

What should happen, is a place for us to go when we are banned, where we can commiserate with one another and tell tales about teacher without him caning us or putting us in detention.

It's just finding a similar style of forum I guess, there's a newish one not populated on that imbike mag, probably have the effect of winding them up more though, then we'd end up having our user name totally destroyed and all trace of our existence exterminated.. 😯

Some of this thread is so vomit inducing that I'm seriously considering becoming a premier member just so I can leave offensive tags on the subject.

What should happen, is a place for us to go when we are banned, where we can commiserate with one another and tell tales about teacher without him caning us or putting us in detention.

twitter?

so it was you who reported me was it

Not me. I'm an adult.

Thanks for confirming it was you that ran to teacher. Roughly how many complaints have you made about your fellow STW members since say Jan 1? Just an estimate....

What did Ulrich say; two year ban, must be a good un?

[i]dezb is old and tired but he's not banned[/i]

Right on all three counts ya bastard.

I seem to have been pissing people off today. That bloke what called me a knob - should I get him banned?

rather than the traditional rufty tufty sweary laddish culture that used to be the norm for off road biker types,

Thats a tradition I can live without thanks, it's nice here.

dezb is old and tired buy he's not banned

LOLZ!!!

mcboo
Thanks for confirming it was you that ran to teacher.

I never used to report people much at all. Only for blatant "isms" occasionally. However on discovering that the mods seem to at least in part base banning on the number of reports I have reported a lot more when they are being personally offensive as its the right wing ranters that didn't get the bans as us lefties didn't report.

Dezzy, just cos i cant come to your birthday ride because of this bloody wedding 🙁 mrsconsequence better provide me with ample wedding/hotel sex to make up for missing out!

you are correct, i am technically a bastard though.

philconsequence - Member

What should happen, is a place for us to go when we are banned, where we can commiserate with one another and tell tales about teacher without him caning us or putting us in detention.

twitter?

mleh, I'm sure such a place exists somewhere......

I never used to report people much at all. Only for blatant "isms" occasionally. However on discovering that the mods seem to at least in part base banning on the number of reports I have reported a lot more when they are being personally offensive as its the right wing ranters that didn't get the bans as us lefties didn't report.

Sure, thanks for all that. Just give us an idea of how many so far this year.

mleh, I'm sure such a place exists somewhere......

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No idea. I don't count and I don't really care.

BTW - at hit the north I met someone who said you were a decent bloke in real life - how about easing off on the personal stuff? I really don't do half of what you accuse me of.

Am I the odd one out then, I've never been banned or even had a warning? Maybe it's cos I try to consider what I'm saying in the light of "real life" and how other people might interpret my words? I don't always get it right, to be fair, but I try...

Genuine LOL at pelican pic.

Pelicans > cats Phil.

Hah I've just remembered the last ban which was hilarious, I'd posted a pick of a fat lad laying on the beach, can't remember why, but anyway if you looked to close you could just see the lads left b*ll*ck up his shorts, they banned me for sexual content.. 😆

BTW - at hit the north I met someone who said you were a decent bloke in real life

Its true. I'm a Prince.

I have been banned twice - once years ago for an offensive joke and once recently for "obsessive arguing" after being warned off. Bang to rights in both cases.

Only times in trouble with the mods IIRC. that and a warning for using a phase for furriners as used in Dads Army

I have a huge amount of sympathy for the mods. I think I’ve mentioned before in a similar thread (these do seem to crop up every couple of months...) that I was once a moderator on the official forum for a reasonably well-known metal band. It was very hard striking a balance between what was seen as banter and in-jokes, and what tipped over the line to unpleasant behaviour that brought the atmosphere of the entire forum down and made many of the… ahem, less [i]dramatic[/i] members of the community start avoiding the place.

The problem was that if the moderators enforced the rules rigidly, there would be mass moaning that the place was sterile, and that it wasn’t right for a metal forum, it’s only banter, etc. But if we left it, stuff would start to escalate and then we’d have to have a crackdown and put up reminders for the rules, then there would be moaning that we were making the place sterile. And there were situations where it wasn’t black or white – sometimes things were a bit fuzzy, and it came down to individual moderator judgement (or we discussed it and put it to a vote). Sometimes past behaviour is taken into context too. It can make the moderating seem a bit inconsistent and therefore unfair, but unless you want something like /b/ on 4Chan, you have to draw the line somewhere. If you’re trying to draw in a broad audience and have advertisers (or a band) to please, sometimes that line is quite lengthy.

In short, you’re all a bunch of moany moanfaces. And now a lolcat.

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[i]Dezzy, just cos i cant come to your birthday ride because of this bloody wedding[/i]

Its got cancelled cos I injured. Hence grumpier than usual.

In short, you’re all a bunch of moany moanfaces. And now a lolcat.

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[i]Am I the odd one out then, I've never been banned or even had a warning?[/i]

Nope, me neither.

I did get a warning for posting illegal links (I hadn't). I was in 2 minds whether to go "It wasn't me, sir!" or just let it slide...

rather than the traditional rufty tufty sweary laddish culture that used to be the norm for off road biker types

I have been aware of an mtb 'culture' since the late '80s..

IME it has only ever been the exclusive preserve of the geeky uber nerd.. 😀

Am I the odd one out then, I've never been banned or even had a warning? Maybe it's cos I try to consider what I'm saying in the light of "real life" and how other people might interpret my words?

I have been banned twice - ponce years ago for an offensive joke and once recently for "obsessive arguing" after being warned off. Bang to rights in both cases.

Respect is due for your new leaf-turning abilities!

a bunch of moany moanfaces

Strapline for the relaunched STW forum?

Maybe it's cos I try to consider what I'm saying in the light of "real life" and how other people might interpret my words?

don - you do not get a ban if reported. You get a ban if the mods think it appropriate.