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Re: I've Had A Gut-ful......
Reply #15 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 10:56am

Shouldn't people be free to express themselves however they like? Sure, it can be irritating at times but maybe that's just how they feel about a particular subject. Maybe they felt that they have no choice . It's all they know. Maybe they just don't have the vocabulary to express themselves any other way. It is an anonymous Internet forum where people will take privileges that they normally wouldn't. Not everyone here has a university degree and maybe they weren't part of the school debating team. If you think your above that, fine, then act like it. You can choose to ignore it or not. Not everyone here interprets what they read the same as you. Something that you may have been said with good intentions, can be interpreted wrongly and offend the person reading it, they react in a manner that then offends you. I just think that on an Internet forum you have to expect all sorts and you can't take things personally. I know I myself have let loose if I felt the other person overstepped the mark. I also try not to take offense if they have a go at me because I may have inadvertently offended them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We each have different boundaries and with this type of social interaction, stepping on peoples toes is par for the course. Sure, ideally an intellectual debate at all times would be great, but i don't think it can happen all the time on this type of platform where anyone from all walks of life can join in. Everyone's standards differ.

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... Gold Member Offline Posts: 23673 WA Gender:	Re: I've Had A Gut-ful...... Reply #16 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 1:13pm Me too. I figured "if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em" at somewhere around the 4000-5000 post mark. Troll me, I'll troll you back. It might be petty and immature, but I don't have the option of slapping you silly through da interwebz, so thats the only avenue open to me.
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Reply #17 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 2:09pm

Unfortunately Kat, there are a few major difficulties involved here -
1) This is essentially a Political site & as such there are quite few who are ardent supporters of various party's &/or ideologies, which immediately sets those with competing views against each other, setting up an "us & them mentality"!

2) The human race has never been that successful at disagreeing with each other, whilst remaining on good talking terms!

Unfortunately, if moderators suspended/banned everyone who made the usual sort of barbed comments, then it would usually end with this or any other similar site having very few members and eventually ceasing to operate, which I have already seen happen in OZ & in the USA.

I would suggest that the best course of action, is to disregard the usual -
Credible
Reliable
Abundant
Paradoxes

But, if it goes too far, then report it by way of PM to the relevant Mod/s of the day and let them try to exercise some "influence" with the offending poster/s.

That said and I still do it myself occasionally, we all reserve the right to clearly tell someone they have gone too far & they should pull their head/s in!

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Reply #18 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 2:19pm

Frances wrote on Apr 4^th, 2012 at 12:39am:

Kat wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 8:43pm:

I've had a gutfull of the bullshyt and the insults.

It's ruining this forum, and it's almost ALWAYS
some smacking nut-bar from one extreme or the other.

It does seem to be a problem that rears its ugly head every now and again here, and more so than on other forums. Last year I was on the receiving end of a very personal attack from a piece of low life slime called kingofthecastle, who thankfully seems to have gone now. It upset me so much I didn't post anything here for a few months afterwards.

Unfortunately he is still here, just using another sock,HI BLACKADDER Lips Sealed

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Re: I've Had A Gut-ful......
Reply #19 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 5:17pm

skippy. wrote on Apr 4^th, 2012 at 2:19pm:

Frances wrote on Apr 4^th, 2012 at 12:39am:

Kat wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 8:43pm:

I've had a gutfull of the bullshyt and the insults.

It's ruining this forum, and it's almost ALWAYS
some smacking nut-bar from one extreme or the other.

It does seem to be a problem that rears its ugly head every now and again here, and more so than on other forums. Last year I was on the receiving end of a very personal attack from a piece of low life slime called kingofthecastle, who thankfully seems to have gone now. It upset me so much I didn't post anything here for a few months afterwards.

Unfortunately he is still here, just using another sock,HI BLACKADDER Lips Sealed

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Oh dear. Roopoo is back on the jungle juice.

Lets see....who you hace accused me of being. Mellie, Juliar, Longweekend, Matty, Fred even Cods.

Nails has accused me of being someone else.

Pansi says she knows who I am.

Gist has called me Mellie.

It's all a bit much really.

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Re: I've Had A Gut-ful......
Reply #20 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 6:35pm

perceptions_now wrote on Apr 4^th, 2012 at 2:09pm:

Unfortunately Kat, there are a few major difficulties involved here -
1) This is essentially a Political site & as such there are quite few who are ardent supporters of various party's &/or ideologies, which immediately sets those with competing views against each other, setting up an "us & them mentality"!

2) The human race has never been that successful at disagreeing with each other, whilst remaining on good talking terms!

Unfortunately, if moderators suspended/banned everyone who made the usual sort of barbed comments, then it would usually end with this or any other similar site having very few members and eventually ceasing to operate, which I have already seen happen in OZ & in the USA.

I would suggest that the best course of action, is to disregard the usual -
Credible
Reliable
Abundant
Paradoxes

But, if it goes to far, then report it by way of PM to the relevant Mod/s of the day and let them try to exercise some "influence" with the offending poster/s.

That said and I still do it myself occasionally, we all reserve the right to clearly tell someone they have gone too far & they should pull their head/s in!

Ah, you're right, mate (as in correct...

I dunno, normally I'd just let it slide.

But I'm having an absolute c%$*t of a time in RL at the moment, and some
of the carp I've been copping recently HAS been a bit below the belt.

I DID modify my post to Slack-Bladder last night, as requested to by Mozzaok.

And I do realise how hard it is to mod a forum like this.

Some 'righties' I can get along with, we can disagree without making it personal
(looking at you, Longie, and a couple of others), just as I can do the same with
some of the more 'out there' lefties (Woody need not apply).

Hell, I even talk to Deathridesamoped and Bill Crany, and have even agreed with
Hicksie on many occasions. Smithy (Hitler in a Head-set...CLASSIC!!!) is probably
one of the regs whose views most closely resemble mine, and I remember that he
was always the same fair and open-minded bloke on Blahoo when I first got into
this forum concept.

Could I be any MORE unbiased? I doubt it.

Maybe I'm just 'Flavour of the Month', I dunno.

Sorry for the rant, but if it brought a few issues to the surface, I suppose it was worth it.

Kat is QRV and QSX.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 112265 Melbourne Gender:	Re: I've Had A Gut-ful...... Reply #21 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 7:31pm Andrei.Hicks wrote on Apr 4^th, 2012 at 10:27am: I should be a moderator. Kat I would sort them out, trust me. We would see a return to law and order. Not you Andrei - I'd get banned.
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Emma Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9853 OZ Gender:	Re: I've Had A Gut-ful...... Reply #22 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 7:40pm yeah nix to you Hick.
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Re: I've Had A Gut-ful......
Reply #23 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 8:07pm

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its easy to say ignore.. thats what FD says you have to do.. but it aint that simple..

Ignore - and report with a link and quote. Responding in kind can get you banned.

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I think it is up to all of us when we see some back things being said to another we should voice our disgust on the forum..

I have done that a few times but I think it need a concerted effort from all of us to put these slaggers where they belong..its a thought anyway.

I have never seen this work for personal gripes - only make the problem worse.

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Re: I've Had A Gut-ful......
Reply #24 - Apr 4^th, 2012 at 9:43pm

Kat wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 8:43pm:

I regard myself as a reasonable, intelligent, centrist poster with
no real bias towards or against either side of politics.

I see good and bad in BOTH sides. And I'm generally regarded
as being pretty tolerant and easy-going.

Nor do I normally throw insults around.

But I'll be fecked if I'll put up with any more slurs aimed at me.

I'm going to start throwing it right back.

I've had a gutfull of the bullshyt and the insults.

It's ruining this forum, and it's almost ALWAYS
some smacking nut-bar from one extreme or the other.

Or 'children' like Matty and Slack-bladder.

No bloody wonder that the only newbies we seem to get are MORE dickheads.

And no wonder some of the better posters have given up and
left, after the constant insults and abuse. I'm just surprised that more haven't.

This place needs a good bosphoric put through it. And the sooner, the better.

Mate, I could not agree more.

I rarely come on here, there's just too much petty bickering, childish name-calling and nastiness. This should be a place where we discuss the issues and politics of the day, without resorting to such childishness and immaturity.

The really sad and pathetic thing is that most of us here are well beyond our youth. You wouldn't know it from reading a lot of the posts here. I don't understand why you single out Matty and Blackadder, though. Neither is anywhere close to being the worst on here.

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Re: I've Had A Gut-ful......
Reply #25 - Apr 5^th, 2012 at 6:45am

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Apr 4^th, 2012 at 10:27am:

I should be a moderator.

Kat I would sort them out, trust me.

We would see a return to law and order.

High flyer extraordinaire lol

How would that look on your resume? Sad

I sit on a computer all day with a bunch of unemployed and pensioners moderating a political forum.

Just once in a while you remember who you are Walter.

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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: I've Had A Gut-ful...... Reply #27 - Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:44am Verge wrote on Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:43am: There's just no love here anymore. This is a warzone
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Verge Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6329 Gender:	Re: I've Had A Gut-ful...... Reply #28 - Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:56am bobbythefap1 wrote on Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:44am: Verge wrote on Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:43am: There's just no love here anymore. This is a warzone It started off like Woodstock and has turned into Vietnam.
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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: I've Had A Gut-ful...... Reply #29 - Apr 5^th, 2012 at 12:00pm Verge wrote on Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:56am: bobbythefap1 wrote on Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:44am: Verge wrote on Apr 5^th, 2012 at 11:43am: There's just no love here anymore. This is a warzone It started off like Woodstock and has turned into Vietnam. Maybe we should just take acid again?
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