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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 14:10:06 GMT
That really looks like sense of humour mismanagement to me. Looks kinda irreverant irrelevant to me PS I promise not to use the word Troll again, but I may revert to "unimpressed" [ ] as this forum is not moderated. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Trolls can not exist on unmoderated forums. Its technically impossible. Annoying people can sometimes survive but the traditional internet troll will find it a rarified atmosphere in terms of troll oxygen.
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Post by bills on Feb 18, 2019 14:25:08 GMT
Now now, you never know, look how @socks has reformed. A dose of straight talking might be all they need. Reformed my arse. I see she has been slagging of Tony D on the other forum, about a spat they had on this one, ironically on a thread about MtB's disappearance.
Just catching up after a weekend off grid...
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Post by bills on Feb 18, 2019 14:43:18 GMT
I've said many times that foxy is synonymous with thunderboat. It's somewhat embarrassing. I would regard myself as 'just another member'. Never had any intention of becoming a 'post-collecting kleptomaniac' and still don't. Thanks for the kind comments. I have tried to moderate my remarks - and often do - but I would not like to water things down to the point of blandness. We live in interesting times, and I like discussions to be all-guns-blazing and not meek acceptance of what the politicians say. Corruption and filthy greed and hypocrisy should be exposed. For those who are new here, my high post count comes simply because I was one of the first on TB (I was asked to check this new site out by a member of Canalworld almost three years ago). TB was a weakly sapling then and very likely doomed to failure, so I made a lot of comments in the hope of keeping the flame alive, like blowing on a glowing cinder, in fact I remember someone saying "Are you talking to yourself, Foxy?" on one thread where there were just my comments in a row. Luckily the fire flared up, perhaps not so much as by my efforts, but by the ongoing bitterness and warnings and bannings going on at Canalworld, probably because of the Brexit referendum coming up (Daniel wielding his power to influence the result of the referendum?). Then there was, in Summer 2016, a Great Cull of CWDF members (I was not aware of this very much at the time, being boating and not logged into TB/CWDF very much then) which seems to have spilled the balance. I have had a lot of pleasure out of TB, and met some of the members for real. TB has, in some respect, turned out to be what the original intentions were, a side branch of Canalworld where people were free to carry on their conversations without being rudely interrupted by having their comments removed or altered by moderators. We have this now. But TB has had a convoluted history and has become so much more than just a stage for discussion. It has become a community, with branches of various things pointing in many directions. Mostly to do with boats and boating, of course (mainly the canals and navigable rivers of England) (let's face it, there aren't really much of those in Wales or Scotland). It has been pointed out that new members here are at first welcomed warmly - and so it is. After that it's up to you how you go, but you are not required to swim along nicely with the other sharks, you are free to turn round and swim against the flow, or drop to the bottom to mingle with the sea urchins and crabs if that's more to your liking. Three years! Have our views been tempered by the perspective of others here? For me, partly so. But I am pretty much the same as I have always been with my slants and angles, based on my own experiences. Yet Thunderboat has opened a whole new world of possibilities not just for me but everyone on it; people to visit whilst passing on your boat, all kinds of advice (and fairly quickly, too!), and help in not just boating but more or less anything. God - that was boring!
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 18, 2019 14:44:33 GMT
Socks appears to remain under the misguided belief that valid reasons were necessary before bans from CWDF were imposed. Some were banned without explanation or right of reply. Some discovered they were banned when they tried to log on.Yep, that was my case. And after I hadn't been there for a few weeks. In fact, just after hearing of the Great Cull I said on here "Haha, I haven't been banned yet!" and then I went to log in to Canalworld and there was a message saying "People like you are not wanted here." Charming.
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Post by bills on Feb 18, 2019 14:49:58 GMT
If that is the case I'm both bemused and amused. To be described as a stalker is just weird and there was me thinking I was a fairly innocuous poster both here and across the road,huh just think of all the likes wasted on Socks as she won't see them. Phil I think the stalker thing might be a bit of wishful thinking.
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 18, 2019 14:57:07 GMT
Spotted on Canalworld, contribution by LadyG: "Well I've been treated to a sample of his style this week, he's is a pia, and I told him so .............. he can't disagree." PS I don't tell them you are a complete pia, 'cos the jury is still out on that, and you are fairly quiescent over there, are you banned Foxy? What was your misdemeanor? I found it highly amusing for you to berate Thunderboat members at trotting over to Canalworld and reporting back here what they saw there - when you are doing exactly the same but the other way round. I'm not sure what my misdemeanor was, it would be interesting to know. I think I may have just got swept away with the tide, as with Johnv. 3 years ago (roughly) there was introduced a ridiculous ban on Politics and Religion, neither was to be discussed. I pointed out that that would be a hard nut to crack as the canals themselves were established by Acts of Parliament and thus a statement of Politics to start with. Anyway, you can't get through life with some Politics & Religion, everything is intertwined with those. I got a warning for saying "typical politician, sleeping on the job!" (deemed as Political Content, oh deary me!), and a warning within 24 hours of that first warning for something I had said in a similar vein 3 weeks earlier. Yes, they had to go back and find something to hang me with. In June and July 2016 I hadn't been on Canalworld at all (as I recall), went to sign in in York library in August to find I was banned. Looking at the inane guff this afternoon on that "Where is Mike the Boilerman, we love you Mike, come back, all is forgiven, oh why won't you speak to us?" I cannot say I am displeased at all to not be associated with people of that calibre. But I will say there were/are some very nice people on Canalworld, I have met some. But there are a lot of creeps in that forum who are not worthy of being spat upon.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 18, 2019 15:01:53 GMT
the reason given ...... eventually after a few months ....... for my banning (After several years and many thousand posts with nary a warning) was originally for "Fomenting dissent" and latterly changed to "promoting dissent" As far as I am aware something that was not and is still not in the T&C's
Promoting dissent was presumably my repeated complaints about the unfairness of the great cull, the overbearing and unbalanced moderation and my attempt to persuade members that the route they had taken was to the detriment of CWDF and it should return to the "light touch" moderation that had preceded.
Denial at that time was looking for a new job and it was suggested by others (but I agree highly likely) that he was trying to get CWDF to toe the party (his) line to improve his CV
as I said to socks .... she is either blind to what goes on about her or is a twat.
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 18, 2019 15:06:40 GMT
Or a mad twat.
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Post by patty on Feb 18, 2019 16:30:40 GMT
wow what a spatey thread... I've bin out wandering again... I havn't clicked on that link so I've not lost 5 minutes of my time
It was horrible the way folks were treated during the great cull..I went right off the place ... this forum took some getting used to being unmoderated and some awful foul posts emerged as people vented anger but its settled nicely and IMO twice the place that CWF ever was....
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Post by kris on Feb 18, 2019 19:11:35 GMT
Yeah !!! and if you don't they will invent a T&C and then retroactively ban you for life ....... you are either blind to what goes on around you or you are just a twat That's for others to judge Your a twat, the way you ran to the other channel telling tales when you know the person your tattling about doesn't have a right to reply on there is pathetic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 19:39:35 GMT
Looks kinda irreverant irrelevant to me PS I promise not to use the word Troll again, but I may revert to "unimpressed" [ ] as this forum is not moderated. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Trolls can not exist on unmoderated forums. Its technically impossible. Annoying people can sometimes survive but the traditional internet troll will find it a rarified atmosphere in terms of troll oxygen. This is a kind of "in" joke, as when I was modding, rather than saying anything specific, I just used to indicate I was "hovering in mod mode, and of course this in itself was cause for complaint!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 19:43:09 GMT
Now now, you never know, look how @socks has reformed. A dose of straight talking might be all they need. Reformed my arse. I see she has been slagging of Tony D on the other forum, about a spat they had on this one, ironically on a thread about MtB's disappearance.
Just catching up after a weekend off grid...
As you well know, MtB left CWDF in a hissy fit, and he is not "blaming" me, he was ready to leave, I did my best to prevent it. Shit happens. I did not have " a spat"with Dunkley, I just told him he was a pia, a well known fact , no argument there, he did apologised to Rusty 69 when presented with the facts, but it should not have happened at all imho.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 19:48:59 GMT
If that is the case I'm both bemused and amused. To be described as a stalker is just weird and there was me thinking I was a fairly innocuous poster both here and across the road,huh just think of all the likes wasted on Socks as she won't see them. Phil I think the stalker thing might be a bit of wishful thinking. omg, no, never ever, and never ever say such a thing again, omg.....................
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Post by JohnV on Feb 18, 2019 19:53:35 GMT
Trolls can not exist on unmoderated forums. Its technically impossible. Annoying people can sometimes survive but the traditional internet troll will find it a rarified atmosphere in terms of troll oxygen. This is a kind of "in" joke, as when I was modding, rather than saying anything specific, I just used to indicate I was "hovering in mod mode, and of course this in itself was cause for complaint!Of course it was ...... are you so blind that you are unable to see that that was a form of bullying ? You from a position of power were not even waiting until there was a genuine crossing of the line before reminding people of your power over them. You were lording it over lesser mortals ...... take care or you will feel my wrath !!! and you wonder why they gave you grief ...... if that was a taste of your moderating style then you deserved all you got
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 19:54:54 GMT
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