Locking topics on Speakers Corner

[Ship called Dignity]

ridiculous

Absolutely agree.

The forum is as bland as it has ever been. It used to be a source of discussion and debate but is now a feeble effort and not really worth visiting. Mods that are control freaks don't help the cause.

I prefer to read local issues by local residents. Topics like "Jade" that have nothing to do with Kintyre can be read anywhere, newspapers or other forums but it is a discussion by the members and it should not have been locked.

Not one post on here on the subject came anywhere near the things being said on other forums where there is freedom of speech and the mods haven't locked them out.

Bland! It would give unsalted porridge a bad name.

Why visit then Sweltered, eh?

but is now a feeble effort

Interesting to say the least, History. Good for the stats however. Been a good while since we had a spat on here so anything to beef and brighten things up!

[daftdog]

I disagree with it too but it WAS locked and that should have been the end of it. Nevertheless, it didn't stop one poster from continuing the argument and sending me a rambling and offensive pm today. I'm not going to embarrass anyone by naming him but I find it wholly unacceptable. I am all for healthy debate but not like this. If mods are going to lock threads then posters have to respect that and not resort to childish tantrums hiding behind pms.

This is the Abusive pm, word for word. sent in reply to a post she made that i did not have the chance to reply to. Everyone can make up their own mind if it was in-fact abusive. I DID NOT HIDE, i couldn't reply publically as the thread was locked.

daftdog, I was actually responding to the post made by Sheik so after reading your wee diatribe the words 'hoisted' and 'own petard' spring to mind. Jeez, I was only stating my opinion. I'm obviously too thick to understand your 'meaning' so does that mean I shouldn't post? I was merely stating that people had different opinions to others and they should be entitled to post them.

My reply was to a post you made previous to the one to Sheik. In it you quoted me

I'm all for personal opinions, but not about the death of someone. It doesn't matter what your opinion of someone is, after a death, respect must be shown, so if nothing nice to say, best to shut up.

Well, it's now come to censorship on the Kintyre forum . . .

Never having been one that responded to 'shut the fcuk up' I will now offer my comment. It is immensely sad that a young woman has died and it's heartbreaking that these wee boys have lost their mummy on such a poignant day. Nevertheless, it has still not stopped me thinking how sad it all became ghoulish entertainment for the masses.
And I'm entitled to that opinion daftdog, whether you like it or not.

So before you reply directly to someone, read what they have written and think what post it was referring to. My original post did not mention you at all and was not directed at you. If you read the posts after mine, you will see what others thought and how they read it.

I think Daftdog maybe meant comments like this one

"It wouldn't surprise me one single bit if there was absolutely bu66er all wrong with her and the whole thing was just a publicity stunt.

You even attributed a quote to me that wasn't even made by me..

I thought it was stating the bleeding obvious i.e. now is not the time to come on and start having a personal go at someone who has just died, regardless of what you thought of them.

Read before you write...

what actually offended you in my post? OR did you take offence to me having the audacity to actually post an opinion at all, seeing as i don't post as often as you?

Get over yourself. My post was plain. Some of the shite written on the thread was a downright disgrace. To make fun of a dying woman is a disgrace and to defend someone for posting shite like that is a disgrace as well. Why my post offended you and other posts didn't makes me laugh.

I left a post, you quoted my post, i replied to your direct reply, you said you didn't aim the post at me even though you quoted me. Read before you reply and keep track of who you quote, as it makes you look stupid.

PS. thanks for the pm Mod6, you can decide if my pm to Govangirl was in-fact as she reported to you, abusive. I don't think it was.

Anyway, Ninja.. As the thread was in speakers corner, you had every right to request it be locked. Maybe you even considered doing that earlier. My apologises to you for the way the thread ended, i just said what i thought and some didn't like it.

[Mod1]

This seems to be an appropriate point to lock this thread as well. There's no problem with debating the rights and wrongs of locking threads so feel free to start another topic about it, however, this one has moved away from the initial subject, two people have given their side of an argument so let's leave it at that.