Disappearing Posts

[Bobbie En Tejas]

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MISSING: Three posts, last seen on the afternoon of March 16, 2006 in the vicinity of Speakers Corner. The posts were approximately one line long, and had been in the vicinity only a short time. The perpetrator seems to be especially fond of Bubbly's posts, as his seem to be stolen most often. If you see these posts, please return as soon as possible.

[Malky]

MISSING: Three posts,

Problem is, you remove too many posts and the fence falls down

Malky

[dgraves]

MISSING: Three posts,

Problem is, you remove too many posts and the fence falls down

Malky

Well...we all agree on that one

[bubbly jock]

When ze fly drops, ze ......

bobbie

The above is taken from a post by long carabine on another thread. Site polis must be away for a long tea break

It would appear to be more acceptable than any humourous banter or satire. Just have to stick to sexual inuendo, or fitba based personal insults to make sure the posts stick and don't go missing.

Malky

Too many fences removed then the site falls down

bubbly

[Ship called Dignity]

When ze fly drops, ze ......

bobbie

The above is taken from a post by long carabine on another thread. Site polis must be away for a long tea break

It would appear to be more acceptable than any humourous banter or satire. Just have to stick to sexual inuendo, or fitba based personal insults to make sure the posts stick and don't go missing.

Malky

Too many fences removed then the site falls down

bubbly

To be fair BJ - that was only posted 1hr 30 mins ago

I am only back on tonight after nearly pulling what hair I have left out! Anyone else have problems with AOL since yesterday? Turns out you just have to turn your Norton Security Firewall off to log on!!!

Anyway, the thread that you are on about was moved by , I don't know who, but I can only say it was not for your posting BJ. I think the Thread Subject heading was offending....well someone!

PS - Its a community forum so if anyone, yes ANYONE, thinks there is anything offensive then let us know and we'll look at it.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

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[Ship called Dignity]

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[Bobbie En Tejas]

Well, I typed something else, but decided to drop it, so since I can't delete on this thread, I did the next best thing

[Malky]

I saw your question Bobbie.

Posts are not deleted, just moved to a hidden forum that is accessible by Mods and Admins only.

Personally, I don't like removing posts - it smacks too much of censorship. I will only do that as a last resort.

Mostly though, offensive stuff in a message can just be edited out. Note too, that there are quite a number of mods and admins on here and if they get a complaint they will act on it. We're not all on the forum all the time so don't always know everything that is going on.

Malky

[jdcarra]

When ze fly drops, ze ......

bobbie

The above is taken from a post by long carabine on another thread. Site polis must be away for a long tea break

It would appear to be more acceptable than any humourous banter or satire. Just have to stick to sexual inuendo, or fitba based personal insults to make sure the posts stick and don't go missing.

Malky

Too many fences removed then the site falls down

bubbly

Bubbly jock, I wound'nt get yer feathers too fluffed up abbot the Dale Polis. The toon polis a'll keep an eye on you. Dinnae stick yer head oot to much wae yer funny comments in case the dreaded flu bug gets ye. It also can subdue humans.

A'll naw be replying tae any mere oh yer remarks cause thats is what ye delight in. We come onto this forum for a bit oh fun and banter, not to be slagged off by an unknown. Fly away and grow up, better still name and shame yerself.

[take_a_pop]

( name and shame yerself.)

If there is 3 things in life that Bubbly wont do. Those 2, are 1 of them.

[Jonathan]

AOL and Norton - AOL - Norton - hrm... big question is which to uninstall first.

Dump Norton ASAP regardless of wherther you paid for it or not! The so called ISP - change but if it's the only one available to you then 'pose you're stuck with it.

[bubbly jock]

A'll naw be replying tae any mere oh yer remarks cause thats is what ye delight in. We come onto this forum for a bit oh fun and banter, not to be slagged off by an unknown. Fly away and grow up, better still name and shame yerself.

Jdcarra

How many burners have you got on that cooker ower there? Seems like you have too many pots and pans on. If you don't want your window steaming up don't come on to speakers corner wae your paper skin and moral hat on your napper.

"Name shame and slagging off" Mmmmmmmmmmm It is a shame that you need my name and I don't call it slagging.

Big boys like us call it intelligent satire.

Need to go I have an appointment with Snoddy I'll need the sleeping pills now that you're naw talking to me any more

bubbly

[Jonathan]

Maybe a "Flame Room" is required - a place to vent anger or discuss things of a more adult nature BUT NOT to include personal attacks on fellow forum members! An 18+ area where the "Ps" and "Qs" don't have to be watcched!

Works well on other forums.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Maybe a "Flame Room" is required - a place to vent anger or discuss things of a more adult nature BUT NOT to include personal attacks on fellow forum members! An 18+ area where the "Ps" and "Qs" don't have to be watcched!

Works well on other forums.

Jonathan, we made one of those, its called Speakers Corner. And sometimes a person living and breathing or the most benign remark is perceived by another as a personal attack I am speaking generally. I like most everyone who posts and don't dislike anyone.. so I hope no one takes offense.. but see? We shouldn't be walking on eggshells here worrying that everything we say might offend someone.

Maybe we should have certain procedures for removing posts:
In general chat, 1 person complaining gets the post removed.
In speakers corner, 5 people agreeing its offensive gets the post removed.
In sports, all out brawl in the stands and by the time its done, they will be saying their side really won anyway, so no posts will have to be removed

This could work