Thread: Using common sense...

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by chinthee

if things get whacky, or the threads get hi-jacked with personal bickering and insults.

Which is just about every thread innit

Yeah, but you have to admit Mods let it ride for awhile before cleaning it up, leading to some grins in the meantime.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Which is just about every thread innit

Ant, you always seem to be in the thick of the slagfests.
Do you actually enjoy it ?

Originally Posted by chinthee

Yeah, but you have to admit Mods let it ride for awhile before cleaning it up, leading to some grins in the meantime.

Yup, agree there.

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Ant, you always seem to be in the thick of the slagfests. Do you actually enjoy it ?

I'm honestly quite ambivalent about it Thetyim. Could take it or leave it. Although as Chinthee's pointed out already some can be quite amusing.

Probably the vast majority isn't amusing but what're you gonna do? For whatever reason I've become somewhat of a central figure in it all (although quite unwittingly I can assure you). There's a certain mentality on internet forums that dictates some who fail with logic resort immediately to personal insults in order to score 'points'.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not feigning total innocence myself or trying to play the victim (I give as good as I get) but it's the nature of the beast to a certain extent. Internet forums, particularly anonymous ones, can give rise to the best and worst in people. I've tried to set a line for myself where I wouldn't say anything on here that I wouldn't say in person.

^
If you don't enjoy it then why do you get involved in it.
Why not just ignore it ?

(reach to make sure i have my money and bike keys and see where the nearest exit is)

^ But that's really kinda my point - other than the genuinely nasty stuff (attacks on family, unfounded accusations) it doesn't actually bother me. Trust me, if I was getting angry at something some anonymous idiot was typing from somewhere I wouldn't bother logging in.

As to why not ignore it? Couldn't honestly say mate. Part of me like twisting fishermen on their own hooks I guess.

[Edit]

Generalised boredom's a factor too I guess if I'm being honest. Particularly as I'm for all intents and purposes stuck at home most the time.

Originally Posted by hillbilly

So maybe TD needs to refine the upper and lower half of TD.

Erm, yes, as has been pointed out repeatedly. Only admin and mods are familiar with the inaccurate division of 'upper' and 'lower' forum half.

There are several subforums in the 'lower' half which are moderated strictly as well.

Originally Posted by Wayne Kerr

I think the different colour scheme for the teaching and newbies forum seems to have worked well. Maybe the boss could consider a different shade of blue for the top half

Yep, that's repeatedly been suggested as well. Different forum sections are moderated to different standards, most members do not realise what standards these are, and I sometimes am not sure the mods know either.

Originally Posted by stroller

Different forum sections are moderated to different standards, most members do not realise what standards these are, and I sometimes am not sure the mods know either.

not a bad forum they manage though is it.

Originally Posted by stroller

Only admin and mods are familiar with the inaccurate division of 'upper' and 'lower' forum half.

Why? Seems important to have general membership understand the distinction if we have some obligation to comply with specific posting norms.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by stroller

Only admin and mods are familiar with the inaccurate division of 'upper' and 'lower' forum half.

Why? Seems important to have general membership understand the distinction if we have some obligation to comply with specific posting norms.

That sounds entirely reasonable. Issues does have a set of rules (thanks to the German lawyer) to read as a sticky, but I think most posters are aware of Issues rules.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Seriously. What's the problem?

dunno.

Originally Posted by Texpat

I like TD the way it is.

i think most do.

Originally Posted by chinthee

Yes, top marks to Hillbilly to let members comment on moderation. He would have been suspended already at TV for doing such a thing and had is moderator status stripped.

Same on TEFLShit...question the moderation policies and you're questioning the admin's morals, the reason for the forum's existance and calling into question why you would dare do such a thing. Its good to see other forums operate differently.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Could take it or leave it

I dont believe that, prove it that you can stop all your bickering and arguing. You Stroller, BG and Earl are a fokin nightmare for most people trying to enjoy this forum.
You spread your shite over every single thread and I, for one, am sick of it.

Originally Posted by Spin

You spread your shite over every single thread and I, for one, am sick of it.

That's a complete and utter nonsense, Spin. I don't doubt you've got a valid complaint but at least try to keep some perspective and objectivity to it.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Part of me like twisting fishermen on their own hooks I guess.

Isn't this the essence of cruelty?
The hunter who kills for enjoyment.
The kid who tortures animals.
And it's certainly congruent with much of your behavior on this forum.

It's all good really, but I do miss tristram

Originally Posted by Norton

Why? Seems important to have general membership understand the distinction if we have some obligation to comply with specific posting norms.

You'll know soon enough when your posts get deleted, and then you can have a pop at the mod, if you know who it is.
Maybe start a thread: xxx is a cnut.

I have always thought this is a very lightly moderated forum and I like it that way. Some people seem to get a bit obsessed with the thing in the same way that spotty teenagers are obsessed with their online gaming, but on the whole it ticks over nicely.

I like the bits where CMN admits stuff like ruining some blokes passport or the car door incident. Is that the top half or the bottom half of the forum?

Originally Posted by slimboyfat

I like the bits where CMN admits stuff like ruining some blokes passport or the car door incident. Is that the top half or the bottom half of the forum?

same forum as a couple of relationship train wreck threads i think.

yeah those are the ones that do it for me

by the way i just added a thread in the Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong section about Chinatown

I still have chafing issues after walking around so much that day so I hope someone will have a look. At the thread that is, not the chafing.

Sweat issues, too, I'll wager.