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Hi, this is Ali, back from my holiday and a bit worried about the state of the forums. There's been a few bannings, of which a few of you are upset about, but a few ground rules need to be set.
Swearing, in any form is not allowed. This is a family forum (believe it or not) and we don't want young people coming on here reading foul language, or indeed, parents coming on here and seeing the kind of language that some of you post. The swear filter is there for a reason, and that's not for you to try and beat it with s p a c e s or 'quote marks'. If we find any swearing, of any kind, it'll be deleted, and you may be banned.
Being offensive to one another is something we will also not tolerate. As you all know, someone was banned last week (in my absence, I might add) for calling someone a dirty homo, or something like that. This just ain't acceptable I'm afraid. Just as bad is topics like the one saying things like 'so and so likes hairy men' - it might have been a joke, but some people don't have the same sense of humour as you, and din't find it funny. We're not saying stop having fun, but topics like that serve only to annoy.
Some people have accused us of favouritism in the past ie. certain people get away with saying stuff without a warning, and some don't. From now on, there'll be no swearing at all, BY ANYBODY on the site, whether you've been here a day or 3 years. Posts with swearing or offensive writing in them will be deleted, and depending on the severity of the post, will be warned/banned. This means everyone.
This shouldn't be hard to do, the vast majority of you are adults, or at least are mature enough to behave like civilised people. These are our forums, and you'll post on here by our rules, whether you like it or not. If anyone has any problems with this, let me know, but I'd like this to be a new start for these forums, with no stupid slanging matches between users, no *starring out* offensive posts and no deliberately getting people annoyed. If you've got something you wanna get out of your system, do it someplace else.
I hope you can all agree to these rules.
Swearing, in any form is not allowed. This is a family forum (believe it or not) and we don't want young people coming on here reading foul language, or indeed, parents coming on here and seeing the kind of language that some of you post. The swear filter is there for a reason, and that's not for you to try and beat it with s p a c e s or 'quote marks'. If we find any swearing, of any kind, it'll be deleted, and you may be banned.
Being offensive to one another is something we will also not tolerate. As you all know, someone was banned last week (in my absence, I might add) for calling someone a dirty homo, or something like that. This just ain't acceptable I'm afraid. Just as bad is topics like the one saying things like 'so and so likes hairy men' - it might have been a joke, but some people don't have the same sense of humour as you, and din't find it funny. We're not saying stop having fun, but topics like that serve only to annoy.
Some people have accused us of favouritism in the past ie. certain people get away with saying stuff without a warning, and some don't. From now on, there'll be no swearing at all, BY ANYBODY on the site, whether you've been here a day or 3 years. Posts with swearing or offensive writing in them will be deleted, and depending on the severity of the post, will be warned/banned. This means everyone.
This shouldn't be hard to do, the vast majority of you are adults, or at least are mature enough to behave like civilised people. These are our forums, and you'll post on here by our rules, whether you like it or not. If anyone has any problems with this, let me know, but I'd like this to be a new start for these forums, with no stupid slanging matches between users, no *starring out* offensive posts and no deliberately getting people annoyed. If you've got something you wanna get out of your system, do it someplace else.
I hope you can all agree to these rules.
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Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> Hmm, that's probably borderline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going
> all Sunday school on you, it's just unneccessary stuff that is posted
> that gets me annoyed, because I have to clear it up.
I have to disagree here. Your claims of wanting a clean family forum fall apart if you're going to allow people to roam around with nicks like that. All very well stopping people from posting offensive material, but if they are referring to themselves in an offensive manner, the offensive words are still making it onto the forum.
> Hmm, that's probably borderline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going
> all Sunday school on you, it's just unneccessary stuff that is posted
> that gets me annoyed, because I have to clear it up.
I have to disagree here. Your claims of wanting a clean family forum fall apart if you're going to allow people to roam around with nicks like that. All very well stopping people from posting offensive material, but if they are referring to themselves in an offensive manner, the offensive words are still making it onto the forum.
Your Tag-line is offensive to women anyway
shall i change my tagline?
Although it has a bit of swearing, it's a lesson on not using them, or something like that.
Although it has a bit of swearing, it's a lesson on not using them, or something like that.
I ask you again was that aimed at me because I was not 'trying' to be funny.
Basically, I hate seeing people post something 'out of the topic' in a serious topic. A lot of thought goes into some of the topics in the Life forum and even some in this forum. The main reason I don't like creating topics anymore is that I know it won't be met with any seriousness by 80% of the posters on here. The other 20% are the users I hold a lot of respect too.
Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> Scouse Tw@t?
>
> Hmm, that's probably borderline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going
> all Sunday school on you, it's just unneccessary stuff that is posted
> that gets me annoyed, because I have to clear it up.
BORDERLINE (sorry to shout at you)
along with the 'C' word thats one of the most offensive words, especially to woman.
> Scouse Tw@t?
>
> Hmm, that's probably borderline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going
> all Sunday school on you, it's just unneccessary stuff that is posted
> that gets me annoyed, because I have to clear it up.
BORDERLINE (sorry to shout at you)
along with the 'C' word thats one of the most offensive words, especially to woman.
JobyOne wrote:
> Ali posts a serious topic with great points and already some of you
> are 'trying' really hard to be funny about it. No wonder he gets
> annoyed.
>
> Anyways, nice one Snuggly. Hopefully everyone reads this and takes
> note.
*
And already you're slagging us all off. So really, you're just us bad.
> Ali posts a serious topic with great points and already some of you
> are 'trying' really hard to be funny about it. No wonder he gets
> annoyed.
>
> Anyways, nice one Snuggly. Hopefully everyone reads this and takes
> note.
*
And already you're slagging us all off. So really, you're just us bad.
JobyOne wrote:
> Ali posts a serious topic with great points and already some of you
> are 'trying' really hard to be funny about it. No wonder he gets
> annoyed.
>
If that was aimed at me I wasn't trying to be funny. I wanted the rules stated clearly so that i don't end up getting banned.
Anyway, since when has a little humour ever hurt anyone, none of this makes the post lose its seriousness. If we all lost our humour where would be be.
> Ali posts a serious topic with great points and already some of you
> are 'trying' really hard to be funny about it. No wonder he gets
> annoyed.
>
If that was aimed at me I wasn't trying to be funny. I wanted the rules stated clearly so that i don't end up getting banned.
Anyway, since when has a little humour ever hurt anyone, none of this makes the post lose its seriousness. If we all lost our humour where would be be.
Mystique wrote:
> Rosalind wrote:
> So what about a certain user whos name (which I am too scared to
> post
> for fear of being banned) is very offensive and who I see has not
> been
> banned, have you told him to change his user name?
> ******
> Scouse Tw@t?
Hmm, that's probably borderline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going all Sunday school on you, it's just unneccessary stuff that is posted that gets me annoyed, because I have to clear it up.
> Rosalind wrote:
> So what about a certain user whos name (which I am too scared to
> post
> for fear of being banned) is very offensive and who I see has not
> been
> banned, have you told him to change his user name?
> ******
> Scouse Tw@t?
Hmm, that's probably borderline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going all Sunday school on you, it's just unneccessary stuff that is posted that gets me annoyed, because I have to clear it up.
Rosalind wrote:
> Scouse Tw@t
>
> yeay I got to swear withpout fear of banning
>
> :p
Indeed, I have already voiced my concerns on this subject. I think the swear filter should include words like tw@t, and other offensive words which can be put together using @'s or †'s etc.
Might require a little imagination to think up all the combinations...
> Scouse Tw@t
>
> yeay I got to swear withpout fear of banning
>
> :p
Indeed, I have already voiced my concerns on this subject. I think the swear filter should include words like tw@t, and other offensive words which can be put together using @'s or †'s etc.
Might require a little imagination to think up all the combinations...
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