I miss Johnny because...............?

[leedswolf]

I think this ban is a tad harsh man..

I think it's been a long time in the making...

He transgressed one too many times IMV, IMHO...

 

[prawnking]

Good job you can't get banned for self-righteousness, we'd be losing a fair few off this thread

 

[leedswolf]

Good job you can't get banned for self-righteousness, we'd be losing a fair few off this thread

Yep, you'd be the first...

 

[Quirkafleeg]

It's really not.

I'm sad man. Who's going to take over from Johnny then. Applications accepted now.

 

[jlo]

In isolation, I actually think the ban sounds fair especially with some of the above info about behind the scenes. Not in isolation, we do let quite a lot of other stuff fly so I'd encourage more banning, albeit with sufficient temporary bans first to give people a chance. Something has changed with forums more generally, I still read it daily but I'm surprised how much triggers a reaction - think Del said it the other day, don't like a post well just scroll on - it doesn't need a reply.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

In honour of our fallen soldier...

 

[leedswolf]

In honour of our fallen soldier...

 

[The Bear]

So what you're saying is it's kind of your own personal revenge, served cold?

Not at all. I wasn't involved.

 

[Del Woppio]

I like Johnny. Or rather, I like my engagements with him, and think 80% of his posts add value whether I agree with the point, be it football or politics.

I'm no stranger to the odd belittling or dismissive post, sometimes I slap first, sometimes I slap second. It's not a great quality, but it's definitely a club that's in my bag. But I'd like to think that whenever I've had little bitchslap fights with anybody, they've never come away from it thinking I *hated* them, and not has it gone from thread to thread to thread. I've seen several rounds of arguments that made me think he actually, real life hated people on here, and made their experience deeply unpleasant.

And that's the bit of him I don't like - I think he often goes too fast and too hard, and it's not just been in the last couple of months either, it's been about ten years. If we did end of season awards, he'd have won the 'angriest poster' award so often he'd have no room on the mantlepiece for his picture of me, and that's clearly come with numerous bans and dozens of warnings.

If it'd been up to me I'd have handed week long bans to a good few people from both sides of the argument, and told them it was the last chance saloon, and if they can't just fucking scroll past shit that gets them riled and abusive then it's a permaban - but I do understand why the mods have decided the course of action. You can only warn so much.

I do think the forum will be poorer for his loss, but that's not the mods fault. It may be on the harsh side of what people would expect, but it's not in the 'clear and obvious error' zone imo and so while we can still disagree with it ultimately it's their call and we all know what we've signed up to

 

[Tony Towner]

In isolation, I actually think the ban sounds fair especially with some of the above info about behind the scenes. Not in isolation, we do let quite a lot of other stuff fly so I'd encourage more banning, albeit with sufficient temporary bans first to give people a chance. Something has changed with forums more generally, I still read it daily but I'm surprised how much triggers a reaction - think Del said it the other day, don't like a post well just scroll on - it doesn't need a reply.

Paraphrasing someone else said earlier the good thing about this place is it tends to be conversational and not just a constant stream of people posting their individual thoughts with little engagement. (With the odd exception). We are also a relatively small community so people have views, potentially inaccurately of each other, it's human nature to react with that pre conceived idea. That's not justifying abuse, but it's the negative to what on the whole is a positive.

 

[Tredman]

Yep, you'd be the first...

Christ, irony just died

 

[Dire Wolf]

Christ, irony just died

Christ, irony just died.