Joe Long
02-11-2006, 09:53 AM
If you're not going to name the forum, what is the point of this post
beyond venting? We all know this is the way moderated forums tend to
become.
On 7 Oct 2005 05:21:08 -0700, "ukpoker" <Mark_Strahan@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>This week I was banned from a poker forum!
>
>The whys & wherefores are plain to see in that this particular forum
>didn't like opinions that went outside its remit which was to provide
>for fluffy talk on a variey of subjects where threads would last
>forever with the under-18 moderators all sucking upto one another and
>its friends.
>
>God help you if you disagreed with a posting or had the audacity to
>question the original poster. No sireee. It wouldn't be long before the
>'mod' police were onto you with its usual 'Ello...Ello...Ello..what
>have we here' attitude.
>
>One recent poster had someone with the begging bowl out for wanting to
>be backed at a soon to be held poker festival. Me, and one or two
>others, objected to the post as we felt that it had no place on the
>forum. Turns out the person concerned was 'good friends' with one of
>the 'mods' and the post was allowed to stand but uh oh...here came the
>'mod cops...nee naw...nee naw...nee naw' questioning our rights to
>question THIER forum postings.
>
>I then put up a post asking that the moderators put up rules regarding
>the behaviour of posters. This was terminated by the high command of
>the forum on the basis that 'all this misbehaviour' was bad for the
>forum.
>
>And so it came to pass...I was banned. The first post I posted on this
>particular forum asked if anyone would like to receive a free book on
>poker. I was immediately attacked as being 'up to no good'.
>
>Its a very sad state of affairs when people who have their own
>playground take the keys from you and then stomp their feet and throw
>all the toys out of the pram when they lose an argument.
>
>I won't name the sad little people that did this cos I ain't finished
>with them yet and as I said in my title...thank god for Blogs!!
>
>Mark S.
--
Joe Long
jlong (at) rnbw (dot) com
beyond venting? We all know this is the way moderated forums tend to
become.
On 7 Oct 2005 05:21:08 -0700, "ukpoker" <Mark_Strahan@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>This week I was banned from a poker forum!
>
>The whys & wherefores are plain to see in that this particular forum
>didn't like opinions that went outside its remit which was to provide
>for fluffy talk on a variey of subjects where threads would last
>forever with the under-18 moderators all sucking upto one another and
>its friends.
>
>God help you if you disagreed with a posting or had the audacity to
>question the original poster. No sireee. It wouldn't be long before the
>'mod' police were onto you with its usual 'Ello...Ello...Ello..what
>have we here' attitude.
>
>One recent poster had someone with the begging bowl out for wanting to
>be backed at a soon to be held poker festival. Me, and one or two
>others, objected to the post as we felt that it had no place on the
>forum. Turns out the person concerned was 'good friends' with one of
>the 'mods' and the post was allowed to stand but uh oh...here came the
>'mod cops...nee naw...nee naw...nee naw' questioning our rights to
>question THIER forum postings.
>
>I then put up a post asking that the moderators put up rules regarding
>the behaviour of posters. This was terminated by the high command of
>the forum on the basis that 'all this misbehaviour' was bad for the
>forum.
>
>And so it came to pass...I was banned. The first post I posted on this
>particular forum asked if anyone would like to receive a free book on
>poker. I was immediately attacked as being 'up to no good'.
>
>Its a very sad state of affairs when people who have their own
>playground take the keys from you and then stomp their feet and throw
>all the toys out of the pram when they lose an argument.
>
>I won't name the sad little people that did this cos I ain't finished
>with them yet and as I said in my title...thank god for Blogs!!
>
>Mark S.
--
Joe Long
jlong (at) rnbw (dot) com