hurrah for a new low in admin police pettiness

[Sweltered]

Yes, but if I delete the thread, the general will only start another one entitled - Petty admins deleted my petty admins thread

Malky

Looks like 6 7/8

, but will it fit?

[Ship called Dignity]

Also, after the weekend I'm not doing the Admin stuff etc just to keep the peace!

Well I'm back from my holidays so I'll be moderating again. Malky

Good and thank feck!

Want me to start by banning the General? Malky

No not at all - I think a self ban on myself will do the trick.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Naw, Davie, don't ban yourself!

This has been a crazy last few days..

Hopefully the forum can get back to the easy conversations about war and god and stuff, instead of all this admin stuff!

[Ship called Dignity]

Naw, Davie, don't ban yourself!

Bobbie - Not for any other reason than I have work I need to finish, so I need to get on with that.

Hopefully the forum can get back to the easy conversations about war and god and stuff, instead of all this admin stuff!

Is that not all the same? Three things in life you should never discuss - politics, religion and this frigging forum!!

[Bobbie En Tejas]

There IS nothing else in life, davie...

[daftdog]

how amusing, how petty, how out of order, what age do you think we are, locking the harry potter thread in case someone gives the ending away?

is this what it's come too? a new low in the interference of posts on this forum.

I for one care not about the harry potter book, i don't read them, i don't care what happens, i made a joke about asking how it ends to save me reading it and now its blocked!!!!

If you don't give a sh*t, whats the point of this topic you started

what next, after two threads being moved the other day by "accident" which followed on from a thread entitled "general jack o'niell" being blocked, i think i know the reason for that but i stated quite clearly in a PM to admin that i had no problem or grievence about the thread, now

If you don't like the way admin goes about things, you could always put in an offer for the domain name and web site, then you can control all that is said on this forum. I mean, we have all read how much better you can do things on some posts you have made, so how about, put up or shut up.. you can download the software free here http://www.phpbb.com/ and all you need to install it is a domain name and hosting with a MySQL database. Be sure to post on here your new forum site so we can all give our free unadministered opinion on everything and anything..

harry potter is banned from discussion? grow up!!!!! if you can't be trusted to be adult about what can and can't be discussed on here how do you expect anything but critisism? stopped in the street and fed up with people complaining to you? lucky you, i'd eat you for breakfast!!!

bunch of big girls blouses, boo hoo, someone told me the end of harry potter, phone childline!! pathetic!!!!

feel free to go in a wee huff now, it's becoming a habit

yeah, we should all go in a "wee huff" and edit our previous posts to read (see below)

deleted due to apathy on my part

[4th gen Suthen']

So, what happened at the end of the book then?

20 replies to this thread since I went to bed last night..........likely not the General's finest hour!

[Malky]

So, what happened at the end of the book then?

What book ?

Malky

[bud]

Well I'm back from my holidays so I'll be moderating again. Want me to start by banning the General?

Malky

is that a promise malky

and well said daft dog - how many more people is the general going to chase away

me and my friends used to come on this all the time but now seems i am the only one left

time for the wee toon trail

[Iona]

I'm another who doesn't visit as often. Some posters seem to just hog everything nowadays.

GJO - Instead of have a comment for everything, why not contribute to the forum? It is apparent you have the time.

Anyway, how is Campbeltown today? I miss the webcam

[general jack o'niell]

firstly if you regarded my opening as a threat you are way too sensitive, i'm very much a pen is mightier than the sword person, secondly i'm not bothered about harry potter it's just a point of principle, especially after other threads being "accidently" moved, thirdly, if you want to "ban" me malky, go ahead, but then that would smack of just the thing that i've just been accused of, i'll try and explain in two syllable words, just so a couple of the posters on this thread don't get confused.

i don't think i'm bigger than the forum, better than any other user,smarter, maybe? better? i only know half a dozen so couldn't possibly make that distinction(oops more than two there), your little ban him jibe implies that you are bigger and better than anyone on the forum, you wield some power over us, how are your boots? pinching a bit?

my comment wasn't directed at davie persay, i don't know one admin from another, the eating for breakfast thing? thats just my way of saying i never go into an arguement without knowing i'm in the right and therefor have the moral highground, i'm not the type to pick an arguement just for the sake of it.

if your not allowed to tell the ending of a bloody book what next? should the pre election poll have been allowed? didn't that give away the result? maybe i didn't want to know who won!!! maybe some of you still don't know? i believe my opinions are unique, well semi so, seeing as davie is the only other person to my knowledge who's "real name" is known to all, hasn't had his address posted yet, he probably wouldn't want it, rightly so, so therefor i have a slight edge over him there.

my point? my point is, due to the fact my name is the worst kept secret on here, everything i say i directly attributable to me!!!! in which case, i have to be sure and certain of everything i say, which i try my damndest to be, otherwise whats the point? i thought the mods and admin were there to oversee the legality of any and all posts and threads, make sure nobody was breaking the law, not acting as nursemaids to the sensitive harry potter afficianados. as for the accusation that i have personally driven others away from the forum, thats a very big statement to make, how would that even be possible if i'm not as important as i seem to think i am? it's a ridiculous notion, preposterous in the extreme, complete nonsense, if true it says a lot more about them than it does about me, how sad do you have to be for my sense of humour to drive you from the forum? the malicious postings of a few others is ok but a bit of humour drives you away? get real!!!

the suggestion that i start my own forum if i'm not happy would never occur to me, but thanks for the advice, i would never know how to go about it, coming from one of the most computer and internet literate families i know, i've only been using the internet since 1994, my first computer cost me £6,500, tho admittedly that was for work and the internet as we know it hadn't been invented yet, oh and one of my brothers has a hand in a big slice of any new website set up in scotland with government funding, another's own company manufactures for the industry and well sweltered knows his way around a keyboard better than most. if i want any advice i'll ask my 14yr old, he's pretty sh!thot when it comes to computers, he's even doing programming. so thanks but no thanks, this poacher has no desire to turn gamekeeper.

so apologies to all you harry fans, my 11yr old says he marries ron's sister and ron marries the girl, i've no idea what she's on about? she could be having me on, but then she gets my sense of humour, just a pity it doesn't travel well sometimes. you can all go back to what you were doing, theres nothing to see, i'm sure you have any number of fascinating threads to post to, i can't wait to read them, honestly, thats not sarcasm, i signpost it quite "clearly" for the hard of laughing, (or not!!!)

i was having a go at the "government" in general, not the "prime minister" in particular


"NEXT!!!!"

[general jack o'niell]

sorry iona, don't mean to "hog" the forum, didn't see your post till i finished my own, if commenting on a thread is not contributing then what is? do you only contribute if you start a thread? also, not posting makes the posters look as if they are hogging the forum, if you posted more often then our posts wouldn't seem so much, simple maybe but effective, and please, try to contribute, your comment doesn't

that was sarcasm, but i'm sure you knew that? that was another, but i'm sure you knew that? ooops, i could be here all day, or could i? i have the time, don't i? or do i? you go off for morning coffeee and a chinwag, i'll have my coffee to go and stay here and post, its just the same thing, or is it? not again!!!!

[Sweltered]

me and my friends used to come on this all the time but now seems i am the only one left

time for the wee toon trail

You have been a member since March and posted 20 times.....Thanks for your contribution.

[Sweltered]

If you don't give a sh*t, whats the point of this topic you started

It's called contributing to the forum.

Oh and by the way, why are most of your posts, apart from the "quizes" you post so confrontational? The General has this reputation, and can be "in your face" (normally in retaliation I might add), and get's castigated, whereas you (and most other people who have a go at The General & others on a regular basis) get a free ride. You've jumped down the throat of quite few people on here. Now, I'm no angel, but I get plenty of stick on here from people, including you. There seems to be a bit of a bandwagon forming here "All aboard"....But only the General is to blame for people leaving the forum. Easy target, he doesn't move as fast as he once did. Nobody is blaming those who just can't wait to come on here and decry his posts. Everyone entitled to an opinion except him. Then there are the others who are greetin because of the "hassle" they are getting, but THEIR character is not brought in to question day in and day out in personal attacks. Oh sure there are wee digs here and there, nothing serious, but out pops the dummy.

My father was a great believer in the "character" of a person. The General has character, those who hide their identity and snipe from the sidelines do not.

[gizmo]

[quote] i'm not the type to pick an arguement just for the sake of it.