Lottie. said:If you wish to discuss this further, please PM a team member.
Meat Pie said:Lottie. said:If you wish to discuss this further, please PM a team member.
I do not feel comfortable discussing the conduct of the forum team and the issue of being banned in private. I much prefer to be open and transparent, a quality I hope the moderation team would also share.
Meat Pie said:Lottie. said:If you wish to discuss this further, please PM a team member.
I do not feel comfortable discussing the conduct of the forum team and the issue of being banned in private. I much prefer to be open and transparent, a quality I hope the moderation team would also share.
Meat Pie said:Firstly, if I am to be 'warned', then it MUST be via PM.
Meat Pie said:Firstly, if I am to be 'warned', then it MUST be via PM. As someone who has been dipping in and out of the forum today, I was unable to see some prior warnings and only saw that which I was given by Lottie. Warnings via the shoutbox will flow right out the other end until they cannot be seen, and that is not a reasonable enough way to offer warning.
Secondly, I find it unacceptable that I am being penalised for responding to someone in exactly the same hostile manner as I had been treated all afternoon by this individual member. Also, where will the Mods draw the line of when something is an insult or just an opinion? At one point I was called a 'filthy Marxist fascist'. I would call being called a fascist highly insulting, but I would never seek to silence someone who would call me that, because that is a political opinion, one which I disagree with and feel is demonstrably untrue, but an opinion that shouldn't be censored no matter how insulting I felt it was.
Another point, I had let the discussion end at a natural conclusion, and it remained peaceful until later in the evening where I had been attacked with an unprovoked insult. If moderators really wanted to deal with the situation and avoid controversy they should have acted at that point and not blamed the party who simply responded to such attacks, as almost anyone would.
Thirdly, why are arguments not acceptable in the shoutbox? I am not aware of any such rule, but it seems bizarre, especially when that had probably been the first sustained conversation with any length that has happened in that section of the forum recently.
Panda said:Meat Pie said:Lottie. said:If you wish to discuss this further, please PM a team member.
I do not feel comfortable discussing the conduct of the forum team and the issue of being banned in private. I much prefer to be open and transparent, a quality I hope the moderation team would also share.
Meat Pie said:Firstly, if I am to be 'warned', then it MUST be via PM.
What's the difference?
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and although things can get heated, avoid getting into direct arguments with others and ensure you contribute in a mature and sensible manner. If your behaviour is brought to the team’s attention, we might need to contact you to discuss further and/or edit or remove the problem posts. Repeat offenders may risk changes being made to their posting rights
Meat Pie said:If I've received a life-time ban, I think even most who feel this action was justified would consider that a tad over-the-top.