As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Please refrain from using the C word when posting on here. There is a reason why that particular word is replaced by a 'word censored' emoticon, but some of you seem to ignore that and think you're being clever circumventing it by adding a full stop or adding a space inbetween the letters. Well, I'm afraid from now on that is not going to be allowed and if I see posts with that word in it's various guises deliberately included, I will not hesitate in deleting the whole post and, if necessary, issuing bans to those responsible.
WE DON'T WANT TO GET SHUT DOWN AND THE OWNER HAS ALREADY MADE IT CLEAR IN THE PAST THAT ABUSE OF THIS KIND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED ANY LONGER AND HE WILL HAVE NO PROBLEM GETTING RID OF THE WHOLE FORUM PART OF THE WEBSITE IF HE RECEIVES COMPLAINTS.
SO TO THOSE FOND OF USING THAT PARTICULAR PRACTISE - AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE - THERE ARE TWO CHOICES: EITHER PLAY BY THE ESTABLISHED RULES OR FECK OFF ELSEWHERE!!
Can I just double check with you Hlebby so that I 100%
Understand the rules properly, is it just in an abusive context that the word's banned
Now, or is its usage completely forbidden, even as a friendly term of endearment?
Thanks.
not that im impacted by this ban one bit, but is this history repeating itself again???
as the heat gets turned up on the manager by the fanbase, here in particular even more than normal, the website owner (king of the akbs and well in with club)is perhaps threatening to pull the plug on this forum again...sound familiar??? along with his shameful treatment of gooner ed (most likely under pressure from the club) its shameful
typical but its his site, so he can do what he wants to protect his cosy feet under the table relationship with those in charge at afc.
the playing mantis wrote:not that im impacted by this ban one bit, but is this history repeating itself again???
as the heat gets turned up on the manager by the fanbase, here in particular even more than normal, the website owner (king of the akbs and well in with club)is perhaps threatening to pull the plug on this forum again...sound familiar??? along with his shameful treatment of gooner ed (most likely under pressure from the club) its shameful
typical but its his site, so he can do what he wants to protect his cosy feet under the table relationship with those in charge at afc.
my 2 cents
Well said, and the fanzine has got to the stage where I can hardly distinguish it from the match day programmes.
The criticism of Wenger, Gazidis and The Board on here is as strong as it could be, and has been for some time. The Moderators just ask that you use non-industrial language to criticise them.
Just out of interest-what was the shameful treatment of goner ed?
IIRC this is the person who got into trouble for selling on a ticket (at market value I may add) Ridiculous but not sure what that has to do with site owner.
Not sure if i'm missing something or a different incident altogether?
wibble wrote:Just out of interest-what was the shameful treatment of goner ed?
IIRC this is the person who got into trouble for selling on a ticket (at market value I may add) Ridiculous but not sure what that has to do with site owner.
Not sure if i'm missing something or a different incident altogether?
im sure someone else can articulate it better, but basically gooner ed (kevein whitcher, the editor of the print gooner) does match reports and musings on the main gooner website after every game. he is an advocate of management change and akbs call him too negative (he would be mild negative comparitievly with most on the forum!) but this task was removed from him, by the original editor (i think) and owner of the gooner who is very much anti change and an akb, at least thats how he comes across, under the guise of having more people with different views giving match reports/summaries. thankfully now gooner ed has been restored to that role. why was it interfered with? well speculation is that akbs whinged to much to the owner and/orthe club didnt like the tone of things from a significant publication that carries influence in the support base, so had a word with the owner to change things. there is also conjecture that the owner gets certain fringe benefts from the club that may have been withdrawn had he not taken action against the eds negative view.
but hey hes the owner so he can sdo what he wants, whether us plebs like it it or not, so theres no real point in me whinging!
I'm fcuked here for sure I'm not going to go all over the top and start finger pointing at mike francis or anybody but I still feel that this action isnt really necessary. Most of the time the word is used as an adjective rather than as a noun on here and from a personal point of view I dont really have an issue with anybody calling me a c***. I know that the world has gone all pc in recent years but footie was, and by and large still is, a working man's game in which industrial language is the norm - are we likely to see a future ban on all cussing words ?
As I said, this is not something that I agree with but this isnt my house so I will try to obey if possible
I'm not going to go all over the top and start finger pointing at mike francis or anybody but I still feel that this action isnt really necessary. Most of the time the word is used as an adjective rather than as a noun on here and from a personal point of view I dont really have an issue with anybody calling me a c***. I know that the world has gone all pc in recent years but footie was, and by and large still is, a working man's game in which industrial language is the norm - are we likely to see a future ban on all cussing words ?
