Could Ja be let off premod to do the Lucky Dip for the UK Champs please?

[RGCirencester]

Could Ja be let off premod so that she can do the lucky dip for the UK please?

[April madness]

I second that!

[chimmykins]

I third that!

[wildJONESEYE]

shes been on pre mod for what seems like a lifetime....

surely shes payed her debt to the community.... its time she is let free to fly like the free spirited bird she is.

[checkSide]

WTF is pre-mod??

[steedee]

I think she was let off and then put back on again... she's such an anarchist

[RGCirencester]

WTF is pre-mod??

Every post you make must be accepted by a moderator before it appears on the forum and you cannot edit your posts. Makes it difficult to run the lucky dip

[checkSide]

What has Ja been doing to get in trouble??

[noel]

WTF is pre-mod??

It's a chastity belt against social intercourse on the forum.



=o|

Noel




[ based upon the false assumption that members will not flee if taken in moderation ]

[wildJONESEYE]

im against censorship of any-kind.....ja has a opinion she puts it over forcefully but from where i stand thats the lifeblood of a forum and creates intrest in a topic if people don't conform to the required type.

[noel]

im against censorship of any-kind.....ja has a opinion she puts it over forcefully but from where i stand thats the lifeblood of a forum and creates intrest in a topic if people don't conform to the required type.

Maybe the powers that be want a dull forum... one where the most lively commentary is about cocobolo love or
whether or not Stephen Hendry can still be a ranker?

In the almost entirely ad-libbed, Robin Williams' movie "Good Morning Vietnam" he brings a Vietnamese boy into a US
Servicemen Club. Williams tells a couple of huge, bigotted marines who want the lad thrown out ... "If you kick out the gooks,
the next thing, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks and kikes...
all that's gonna be left in here are a couple of brain-dead rednecks". SNAP! [ pub-clearing brawl ]

A forum is a lot like a private club. Convention has it that members are there to represent a shared or common interest
and have to stick to rules of common, society decency... no personal attacks, nor vulgarity, nor viewpoints that could possibly
be slanderous or libellous, especially to the site itself.
And herein lies the well-know and widespread problem area where in a slightly paranoia-inducing setting an administrator can
go off the deep-end and make arbitrary sanctions against members because of "personal" disagreement.
There is a term for that...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...erating%20Nazi'

Just as administrators and moderators have a responsibilty for due dilligence in maintaining agreeable standards,
so too do members for determining what is agreeable!

This is our Community, people. What do you think?



=o|

Noel

[dannyd0g]

A forum is a lot like a private club. Convention has it that members are there to represent a shared or common interest
and have to stick to rules of common, society decency... no personal attacks, nor vulgarity, nor viewpoints that could possibly
be slanderous or libellous, especially to the site itself.
And herein lies the well-know and widespread problem area where in a slightly paranoia-inducing setting an administrator can
go off the deep-end and make arbitrary sanctions against members because of "personal" disagreement.
There is a term for that...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...erating%20Nazi'

Just as administrators and moderators have a responsibilty for due dilligence in maintaining agreeable standards,
so too do members for determining what is agreeable!

This is our Community, people. What do you think?



=o|

Noel

Noel, I ask you, have you yourself been pre-modded or banned ?

The fact that you haven't (to my knowledge), says to me that this forum isnt as bad as you are claiming. You are free to disagree with the way it is being run, all day long. Which indeed you often do.

This forum is strict, but generally fair IMO. I do miss some of the members that have been banned, but, unfortunately many of them pushed "the rules" too far and brought it on themselves. If you were to be pre-modded or banned yourself just for disagreeing or annoying the admins in any way, than yes that would be a very bad sign indeed, and all your worst fears would be realised. But this hasnt happened, so things arent that bad ?

BTW i do share your concerns about deleting threads etc, but i dont think that happens too often.

[noel]

Noel, I ask you, have you yourself been pre-modded or banned ?

The fact that you haven't (to my knowledge), says to me that this forum isnt as bad as you are claiming. You are free to disagree all day long. Which indeed you often do.

This forum is strict, but generally fair IMO. I do miss some of the members that have been banned, but, unfortunately many of them pushed "the rules" too far and brought it on themselves. If you were to be pre-modded or banned yourself just for disagreeing or annoying the admins in any way, than yes that would be a very bad sign indeed, and all your worst fears would be realised. But this hasnt happened, so things arent that bad ?

BTW i do share your concerns about deleting threads etc, but i dont think that happens too often.

No mate I haven't been banned [ yet ].
However, I have had posts deleted arbitrarily.

As you do, I miss some of the more outspoken members' posts, and Ja is a good example of someone, as far as I know,
who has been unfairly censored.

TSF is a great site and I have never said otherwise, nor would I spend the time I do "contributing" [ for whatever that's worth ]
if I didn't believe that.
All I intended to do in making this post is to advocate on behalf of free speech and an openesss about who and why individuals'
comments and privileges can disappear... and just because I, myself, haven't gone missing would only be an unusually good thing
in a totalitarian regime... not in a "public" forum like this.

checkSide wondered...

What has Ja been doing to get in trouble??

Fair question is it not?
Perhaps there is a lesson in that?

LONG LIVE SNOOKER!



=o)

Noel

[dannyd0g]

All I intended to do in making this post is to advocate on behalf of free speech and an openesss about who and why individuals'
comments and privileges can disappear... and just because I, myself, haven't gone missing would only be an unusually good thing
in a totalitarian regime... not in a "public" forum like this.

[
Noel

Agreed.

But many of your posts seem to be suggesting this place is run like a totalitarian regime. As you havent been made to disappear somehow, that is a very good thing, in that sense.

[ore]

Noel, I ask you, have you yourself been pre-modded or banned ?

The fact that you haven't (to my knowledge), says to me that this forum isnt as bad as you are claiming. You are free to disagree with the way it is being run, all day long. Which indeed you often do.

This forum is strict, but generally fair IMO. I do miss some of the members that have been banned, but, unfortunately many of them pushed "the rules" too far and brought it on themselves. If you were to be pre-modded or banned yourself just for disagreeing or annoying the admins in any way, than yes that would be a very bad sign indeed, and all your worst fears would be realised. But this hasnt happened, so things arent that bad ?

BTW i do share your concerns about deleting threads etc, but i dont think that happens too often.

well but doesn't it make the point even stronger, when it comes from someone who has not been banned?