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"Complaint About SR Forums"

And I'm not joking, horsing around or being stupid.

I am finding myself getting more and more frustrated and angry at some of the people that inhabit these forums.

This is a friendly place where we meet to exchange ideas and swap arguments about everything and anything that comes to mind.
It's all taken in the right spirit.

Except for a couple of incidences over the past couple of days, and specifically one person.

There has been a marked increase in swearing,I dont know what's going on with the language filter but the most obscene and harsh cursing is being allowed through with no action taken against those that do this.

I'm not a prude, but I feel that on a forum where a large percentage of the users are pretty young (no offence meant), that the allowance of people to post "MotherF--- C--t" is beyond most limits set by public server forums.

However, the main complaint that I have is with a certain poster that goes by the name of Micheal Corleone/Fr!day.

This guy has been around for an age, and does nothing but heap sarcasm, rudeness and obscenities upon the posts of others, again without any sort of reprisal being issued.

I am incredibly frustrated by this, as if I could obtain this guys info, I would personally go round and punch seven shades of whatnot out of him.
I am a placid, comical guy, but when I am purposefully wound up by the same person, over and over and over, as are many others - then I lose my patience with both him and the places he chooses to post.

He offers nothing of interest, never posts any topics and merely replies with intentionally deliberate inflammatory remarks, culminating tonight in more swearing.

I'm a grown man. I could choose to ignore this person, but if I wish to continue to use these forums in the spirit in which I believe they were intended, then I cannot allow his annoyance to continue.

I dont let people talk to me like that anywhere outside of a computer forum - I react and punch them in the mouth.
That's how I deal with morons that make personal comments at me.

I can't do that on here, but I wonder why someone is allowed to post such moronic comments time and time again.
It's not just me, even SR staff have replied to his comments with anger and hostility.

So, having posted a request to remove an obscene post in the Sony section under "Gt3 Delayed" and yet, hours later, that post is still there, and having been wound up to the point of wishing to lay my hands on Corleone, I have decided to remove myself from these forums until such things have been remedied.

I am a tolerant, pleasant person but I will not allow a child to try to wind me up, without me being allowed to react in a reasonable way and knocking his teeth down his throat.

If anyone needs to check, go read the DVD forums, especially the "so many questions" thread.
Pointless, hostile attempts at nothing more than childish wit.

I refuse to allow myself to get annoyed by this and I bid Special Reserve Forums goodbye.

I will return in a couple of days to say bye to those that I have had a lot of fun with, but getting angry at a kid that needs a slap is not the way I operate.

Bonus is funny. :-)


Old news mate, it's all been sorted now!

This forum will be a worse off place without Goaty, and the DVD forum especially will never be the same without him. Anyhow, pal, if you are serious about now coming back, jump on MSN messanger now and again and have a chat.

PS - I got counterstrike working, so give me a shout if you want a game.

I hate it when people post abusive messages, I wouldnt mind if it only ever occurred in THE WORLDS LONGEST THREAD but it occurs everywhere. In my opinion the reporting system needs to be improved somehow, either that or notables should be able to remove abusive posts (or at least tempoarily send them to a sin bin to be read by SR staff later at their convenience).

Another way round it and a simple addition to the SR forums would be to have a ‘Report this post to SR’ option.

If somebody posts abusive material, whether it’s sexist, racist, contains sexual swear words, or anything that other members my find to be offensive to another member/themselves, then it could be quickly brought to the attention of the SR web staff who can decide what action should be taken.

This could take the form of a warning, or if considered totally unacceptable the user can be banned. This in my view would be ideal for these forums, as they would in effect become self moderating. The SR staff don’t have to spend time trawling through all of the threads looking for offenders. It also removes the need for an improvement to the filter.

I’ve posted this here and on the SR complaints and bugs room as well.

Cheers.

He said it today.

http://ukdiscussions.reserve.co.uk/ display_messages.php?threadid=14886 &forumid=416

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really? dringo told u that? what is this world coming to

Killing someone is never the answer. Apparently someone physically bullies Dringo because he likes Nintendo. Whenever he mentions it he gets hit. In my eyes that's persecution, and that bully should be prosecuted.

vioence can solve things somtimes though. If u kill the other guy thenits the end of the problem right? only thing is, it leads to another problem. just depends upon how much the first problem means to u. somthin stupid about someone dissing a game is pointless gettin worekd up over.

Yeah, I always try and use my interlect to resolve disputes. Resorting to violence to meet my ends is below me.

If u reply to this sort of behavior by punching the other person, it makes u just as bad as him.

The forum wuldnt be the same without these sort of people that annoy u. these sort of people can help u realise what is best. without Evil there can be no good.