I said, you said, you Bastard

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GranadaJoe
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I said, you said, you Bastard

Post by GranadaJoe »

Is there any way that the mods or us posters ourselves could develop a system for preventing threads being taken over by the 'my dick is bigger than your dick' arguments that seem to periodically break out.

Maybe a 'Let's take it into the playground' Thread?

At the moment the 'AW views' thread (a ponderous enough destination at the best of times) is the home of a bitch fight over who said/meant what. Quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes precede bitch slaps and counter bitch slaps. It's tedious and selfish.
None of us want to be accused of something we find insulting or offensive and the natural reaction is to bite back, but these rows go on for ever and rarely get resolved.
It's more problematical now that threads regularly get merged. One bitch fight and the whole topic gets hijacked.

Anyone who might actually want to view 'views on AW' would have to trawl back and forth for pages and pages trying to find some mention of our glorious leader. More likely they'll give up, defeating the idea of a forum.

It would be nice to think that common sense would break out, but I don't hold out much hope.

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No thread is complete without someone abusing wenker - for the record, he is still a c**t 8)

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I've got no problem with posters abusing (or defending) AW. It's when they take up a dozen pages abusing each other that I get pissed off.

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augie wrote:No thread is complete without someone abusing wenker - for the record, he is still a c**t 8)
There is always one who starts it :roll: :oops: :wink: :-P

And just for the record I don't need to get into these arguments, quite relaxed about my dick size...just call me Mandingo 8) :twisted:

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My dick is bigger than yours :wink:

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Hi shaft here

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Would work best if posters themselves ask others to "Calm it down" for the sake of a thread's clarity.

Us Mods do try and keep a lid on things but simmering pots boil over from time to time.

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As Quartz says we try to keep a lid on these little spats that flare up, but often they flare up so quickly that you have 15 or 20 posts before we get a chance to PM both parties and ask them to PM each other if they want to continue. By it's nature the forum is fluid and it is difficult striking the right balance between letting threads develop and preventing them getting hijacked.

With regard to keeping threads on-topic, originally this forum was very scatter-gun in it's style; threads meandered all over the place and that was what made it so successful to a certain extent. We didn't over-mod it or delete off-topic posts like most forums did/do. This gave the place it's own character. I would be loath to get into a situation where we are deleting off-topic posts as that would kill the forum (for me anyway). Sure, personal bitch rows are a different matter and we do try and limit them when they start to get out of hand.

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In fairness one of the two involved in the thread illustating it is I believe a mod :?

Its probably for all of us to try and steady the ship if its going wayward though.

Things seem to return to topic pretty well on here though, or vere off in a good way, after all we are all gooners :D

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You looking at me Jimmy?



:shock: :-P

:lol:

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Do you guys (mods) check ip addresses anymore ? I am sure that there is at least one infidel amongst us

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augie wrote:Do you guys (mods) check ip addresses anymore ? I am sure that there is at least one infidel amongst us

INFIDEL ?????


Behead, the non believer.

:lol: :lol:

Oh, fuck off :lol: :lol: :lol:

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augie wrote:Do you guys (mods) check ip addresses anymore ? I am sure that there is at least one infidel amongst us
"infidel" :lol: 8) 8)
Quality, augie. 8)

I used to have access to a great bit of kit that could check ISP addresses to a very accurate degree, but my IT geek mate stopped me using it for various reasons. :( :x Now it is more difficult to check them as a lot of ISP's go through proxy servers and/or large catchment area servers etc. So whilst it can give us an indication, it isn't 100% accurate. We can still tell if a banned user rejoins under a new username but location stuff is a bit more difficult.

PM your vermin suspicion.

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Threads get hijacked once every so often but by and large it resolves itself and it's an inherent risk of having a forum with some decent craic. And it certainly happens a lot less without JD going round and pedantically dissecting posts :lol:

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northbank123 wrote:Threads get hijacked once every so often but by and large it resolves itself and it's an inherent risk of having a forum with some decent craic. And it certainly happens a lot less without JD going round and pedantically dissecting posts :lol:
Certainly happens less often would be a better way to phrase that :wink:

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