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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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Oh well, there goes another one. Shame - that was a good name. ;-)
Yeah - lie low for awhile mate. ;-)
Hmmm...
Drop the tagline, stop slating the Gamecube, and this one might just last...
Drop the tagline, stop slating the Gamecube, and this one might just last...
damn gotta stop posting now mate the server is logging it!!!!
**finger tips together**
Excelent, it's all fitting into place.
Excelent, it's all fitting into place.
Thats what I was thinking. ;-))
Hey you have your name for X-Box Live now too. ;-)
Hey you have your name for X-Box Live now too. ;-)
Cool it let me have it, brings a tear to my eye as my first ever username was uk_vamp.
lets just hope i keep this one, i planned to try me best.
lets just hope i keep this one, i planned to try me best.
SavsLacky ;-))
VampX maybe ? Meh, dunno. ;-))
Actually VampX would be pretty cool - if you actually manage to keep it without getting banned. ;-))
VampX maybe ? Meh, dunno. ;-))
Actually VampX would be pretty cool - if you actually manage to keep it without getting banned. ;-))
but i'm still here errrr for now, thinking of a name change, any suggestions?
Yeah but then theres been plenty of posts in here that should well have got a few posters warned. Rinoa is one of the more famous ones. She used to come in every couple of weeks and pop that X-Box Stinks thread back up with another stupid comment to wind everyone up.
Res did his posts all in one little weekend which got him banned, but overall, other posters are just as guilty of doing the same thing - difference is they do a couple at a time then come back after a few days to carry it on and they get away with it.
So really its not hard to see why people in here get very frustrated because its like we're overlooked and basically given the attitude of "tough, deal with it" while other forums - particularly the Ninty forum is helped out pretty quickly.
I'm not going to name names, but in the past, we've had Ninties swearing their heads off in here - on 2 occasions, one poster swore AT me and Res. Another came in here with a flurry of swear words - apparently provoked.
To me thats not an excuse to go around swearing. It could be said that Res was provoked into giving back what he saw as this forum getting all the time from the Ninty forum. He was still judged as wrong and was banned.
Res did his posts all in one little weekend which got him banned, but overall, other posters are just as guilty of doing the same thing - difference is they do a couple at a time then come back after a few days to carry it on and they get away with it.
So really its not hard to see why people in here get very frustrated because its like we're overlooked and basically given the attitude of "tough, deal with it" while other forums - particularly the Ninty forum is helped out pretty quickly.
I'm not going to name names, but in the past, we've had Ninties swearing their heads off in here - on 2 occasions, one poster swore AT me and Res. Another came in here with a flurry of swear words - apparently provoked.
To me thats not an excuse to go around swearing. It could be said that Res was provoked into giving back what he saw as this forum getting all the time from the Ninty forum. He was still judged as wrong and was banned.
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