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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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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.
Anyways, nice one Snuggly. Hopefully everyone reads this and takes note.
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?
> 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?
Rosalind wrote:
> Scouse Tw@t
>
> yeay I got to swear withpout fear of banning
>
> :p
*
Don't gloat.
> Scouse Tw@t
>
> yeay I got to swear withpout fear of banning
>
> :p
*
Don't gloat.
Scouse Tw@t
yeay I got to swear withpout fear of banning
:p
yeay I got to swear withpout fear of banning
:p
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?
Don't know who you're talking about, sorry. I've been off for a week. What's his name? You won't get banned ;)
> 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?
Don't know who you're talking about, sorry. I've been off for a week. What's his name? You won't get banned ;)
Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> Just use common sense.
*
*cries*
Got to complicate matters further, haven't you?
> Just use common sense.
*
*cries*
Got to complicate matters further, haven't you?
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?
Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> You're all perfectly capable of controlling what you type.
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Nope, not necessarily true.
> You're all perfectly capable of controlling what you type.
fiuouehefnhbvvvmjdf vnalnva'law
Nope, not necessarily true.
Thats my point. It may be deemed offensive yet it can't be filtered out.
I think the rules need to be less ambigous and open to differebt perceptions. If your saying that offending someone equals banning then that is going to be a hard one to surmount, because people get offended at the oddest things. And Chat forums are open to misunderstandings.
I think the rules need to be less ambigous and open to differebt perceptions. If your saying that offending someone equals banning then that is going to be a hard one to surmount, because people get offended at the oddest things. And Chat forums are open to misunderstandings.
Just use common sense. For example, the word 'crap' doesn't appear in the filter, because it's basically a harmless word - you hear it on kid's TV these days. But if you posted a topic that was simply the word crap repeated over and over again, it'd be deleted.
Things like Bloody Hell and God are also not really swearing, it's all a matter of context. Just use your brain, if you think that something's a bit dodgy before you post it, then take it out, don't leave it up to us to decide.
You're all perfectly capable of controlling what you type.
Things like Bloody Hell and God are also not really swearing, it's all a matter of context. Just use your brain, if you think that something's a bit dodgy before you post it, then take it out, don't leave it up to us to decide.
You're all perfectly capable of controlling what you type.
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