Liverpool FC Forum

[Madmax]

Another idea that should be looked into is an additional mod on matchdays.. Alot of Wums register and talk shyte post match..  You could call the individual "matchday mod" 

[tonyeh]

No I think it does Tony to be honest. You could do first ban one week, second two weeks, then three in a season and you get six weeks (or whatever system you like). The problem with the system as is is that you get posters who are on four cards, and because nobody really wants to see them banned (including me I might add) they get away with murder and hence people think it's unfair. Then, when they do get banned it's often only for a week or so anyway in many cases.

I'd like to see less discretion, less ambiguity and much more adhesion to a clear set of rules. No need to say to somebody your banned for life for repeatedly calling people c...s, but banned for a week THE FIRST TIME HE DOES IT would send out a fairly clear message. When he comes back, his cards are wiped but he pretty clearly knows the score.

Oh, ok. It's incremental.

I thought you were giving the same penalty for the two cards.

Even so, I think the "danger" of being banned forever from newkit (assuming the person gives a damn), will make a lot of people think again before going to town on somebody. Without the threat of being kicked off the boards (in an easilly understood system), I doubt anyone will be truely bothered.

Maybe a yellow (banned for a week), two yellows (banned for two weeks) and a red (don't come back)?

Or, is that too harsh?

[account deleted by request]

The main problem with the "don't come back" rule is it will tend to make the Mod's hesitant about giving out cards to people who deserve them, just because they are seen as "valued posters". I am not sure what the best solution is, but I think we need hard and fast rules if for no better reason than to take away the perception of favouritism.

One thing I think would cut down the abuse or at least make it a little more subtle is to prohibit people getting round the automatic censor by cunning use of fullstops and misspelled words. e.g. Kunt/c.nt/c*nt etc etc.  Admittedly this would cut Barry's post count down by about 90% 

[dawson99]

I think we should have seperate threads purely for homophobia and racism. That way we keep the nazis happy as well, as we seem overzealous in trying to please absolutely every fecker in the room.

It should be this simple. feck up, verbal warnig, then written warning, then suspension, then expulsion.

Also, can people just chill. We will have differing opinion, keep the wars out of the threads and lets just hug it out

[Lando_Griffin]

I've been on about this for a while now and just wondered what everyone else thinks. The system as is doesn't work. It doesn't work for the forum, it doesn't work for the mods and it doesn't achieve what it's supposed to, ie moderating behaviour, sorting out spats etc.

The reason it doesn't work is that it's outdated, and applying the rules as they are with impartiality is nigh on impossible. If people get banned they come back under an alias, some members are inevitably given more leeway as they are part of the furniture etc. IMHO it would be better if we had a fully transparent system which was workable and easy to understand. There should be clearly laid down guidelines as to what is and what isn't OK, and transgressors should be sorted nice and quick. If you are a genuine Liverpool fan, by and large the forum should welcome you on and not seek to ban you indefinately. We should allow all banned Liverpool fans back IMHO with a clean slate.

It should be a yellow for bad behaviour which stands for a week or two, followed by a straight red which also stands for a week or two. The new rules though ought IMHO to be rigorously applied.

Here's my stab at a few guidelines:

Abuse of other members with the use of words such as c... and w@nker should not be tolerated. "Funny" abuse though should be OK (I'm talking SOME of Lando and Barry's here), but if it is sustained it should result in a card.

P!ss taking of people's "illnesses" or family members, be they their kids or mothers or whatever should not be tolerated. Out of order and a straight card.

Racism, overt anti OOTerness, homophobia and the like should be stamped out instantly. Any comments which allude to fans not having a clue because they are a girl/American/young etc shouldn't be allowed.

Comments such as some of Aces recent ones where he has appeared to wish that Owen prospers in a Man Utd shirt shouldn't be allowed either. They are inflammatory IMHO and invite spats.



All in all though it should be simple. Get on someones case with a bit of abuse and there should be a warning on the open forum (none of this PM nonsense) if it's not too bad. If it is, there should be a card. Once someone is banned for a couple of weeks or whatever the mandatory period is, if they come back under a pseudonym, they should be banned for life. Whether or not they agree with the penalty, if the system is fair and transparent they should respect the decision and the process.

I think it would make the forum better, and some of the better posters who are currently banned could come back and make the forum better than it currently is.

You really are a tart, Mick.

It's the f*cking INTERNET.

Get a grip, for crying out loud.

[Lando_Griffin]

Why can't we go back to the good old days when the only people banned were WUMS from other teams and people who SERIOUSLY overstepped the mark by posting real racism or kiddie porn?

For God's sake - does it REALLY hurt anyone to be called a total w*nker on the internet?

No, it does not.

[bigmick]

Why can't we go back to the good old days when the only people banned were WUMS from other teams and people who SERIOUSLY overstepped the mark by posting real racism or kiddie porn?

For God's sake - does it REALLY hurt anyone to be called a total w*nker on the internet?

No, it does not.

I kind of agree although not totally. In the main, I think if someone is a genuine fan we should be coming at it from the angle that we don't really want to ban people. I disagree with you usually Lando on the odd occasion you talk about football, but that doesn't mean I don't want to read your input.

In the main, my point is exactly that we shouldn't be banning people forever, people should be able to carry on on their merry way by and large, provided they aren't totally out of order.

So we agree on much, even though it doesn't seem so. Where we differ, is that I do think that if there is a set of rules, then by and large they should be stuck to. If you want to go down the route of having a no rule forum, then fair enough although I suspect there wouldn't be that many members. As it is though I think most people have better things to do with their time than come onto the internet to be called a c... by some c... who they've never met before and aren't going to meet, if you get my drift. I personally come on the forum to talk football mostly, have a wind up a bit, have a laugh etc etc but not to come in for shedloads of abuse that I can do little about*

*I hasten to add here that I don't actually come in for shedloads of abuse, and I think this is where you might be misunderstanding me. being called a c... by yourself or by Barry or whoever else has only happened to me rarely on here, and on the occasions that it has it hasn't exactly caused me to lose sleep. It's been more tiresome than stressfull, and when I'm talking about the forum as of now I'm not in any way shape or form complaining about the treatment I get, because I don't get any. 

My point is a more general one, hence it being in general chat. Anyway, you clearly think the forum is just fine as it is which is cool. I think it's just fine too, although I do believe it would be better if some of the banees were allowed back on. I'd say exactly the same if you were one of them.

[Lando_Griffin]

Why can't we go back to the good old days when the only people banned were WUMS from other teams and people who SERIOUSLY overstepped the mark by posting real racism or kiddie porn?

For God's sake - does it REALLY hurt anyone to be called a total w*nker on the internet?

No, it does not.

I kind of agree although not totally. In the main, I think if someone is a genuine fan we should be coming at it from the angle that we don't really want to ban people. I disagree with you usually Lando on the odd occasion you talk about football, but that doesn't mean I don't want to read your input.

In the main, my point is exactly that we shouldn't be banning people forever, people should be able to carry on on their merry way by and large, provided they aren't totally out of order.

So we agree on much, even though it doesn't seem so. Where we differ, is that I do think that if there is a set of rules, then by and large they should be stuck to. If you want to go down the route of having a no rule forum, then fair enough although I suspect there wouldn't be that many members. As it is though I think most people have better things to do with their time than come onto the internet to be called a c... by some c... who they've never met before and aren't going to meet, if you get my drift. I personally come on the forum to talk football mostly, have a wind up a bit, have a laugh etc etc but not to come in for shedloads of abuse that I can do little about*

*I hasten to add here that I don't actually come in for shedloads of abuse, and I think this is where you might be misunderstanding me. being called a c... by yourself or by Barry or whoever else has only happened to me rarely on here, and on the occasions that it has it hasn't exactly caused me to lose sleep. It's been more tiresome than stressfull, and when I'm talking about the forum as of now I'm not in any way shape or form complaining about the treatment I get, because I don't get any. 

My point is a more general one, hence it being in general chat. Anyway, you clearly think the forum is just fine as it is which is cool. I think it's just fine too, although I do believe it would be better if some of the banees were allowed back on. I'd say exactly the same if you were one of them.

Well I think there were quite a few more active members before the posting oppression started.

It appears that the mods and I have found a somewhat happy medium. I call people c*nts, but stop after 2 or 3 posts and it's all good.

I have to admit, though, that it is very annoying when the 4th gets deleted because some ponce who spends all their time berating the mods squeals like a pig.

What I would like to see is the "Report to Mods" button removed. That in itself would solve 3 parts of this forum's problems.

And before anyone jumps up and down, yes - I do mean that I want to be allowed to call people what I want, when I want and how I want.

That's how it always was. It's funny to think I didn't have a single card for the first 2 or 3 years I was on here, despite my "abuse" being far worse than it is now.

Still - at least Ace and TheRock don't have to hold their teddies QUITE so tight, now...

On a serious note, I think that some people need to stop reporting me. It's quite sad, really. Sadder than my wanting to insult, I'd say... 

[Lando_Griffin]

I disagree with you usually Lando on the odd occasion you talk about football

And on that note, it's become quite clear that it is impossible to talk football with the anti's, as all they are interested in is shooting the gaffer at every God-given opportunity.

I'll level with you - you lot bore me to tears. The same sh*t over and over every single day, interspersed with the odd "where did it all go wrong" thread.

Well I'll tell you where it all went wrong - you lot found common ground in your communal hatred of all things Rafa, now when anyone says anything positive about the boss, you hunt them down like a pack of ill-informed hyenas.
You've got Saint, who insists he is an "on-the-fence" chap who explores all angles of debate, yet never (and I mean NEVER) posts anything positive about the boss.

You had peewee, who for some unknown reason was lauded as a valued poster, even though every word he ever typed was a scathing attack on Rafa, Kuyt or Sabre.

You have TheRock and Ace, who are so utterly clueless that I often mistake them for one another. They have a "Rafa is Satan's bedfellow and Kuyt is his maid" attitude. They hate him, but I bet you any money that neither one of them can tell you why.

You had Bam, who, with all the will in the World, would still lose a battle of wits with a jam sandwich. A horrible little squirt who hates Rafa for hundreds of reasons he would struggle to explain, and who wasted no time in attacking anyone who praised the boss. Bam was basically peewee's right-arm man, until they both went the way of Old Yellow.

Then there's you, Mick. Eloquent at times, but incessantly boring, you wear people down with your enormous appetite for drivel. You obviously spend the vast majority of your time all alone at work and wile away the hours by dreaming up more and more incredulous and outlandish ways to hate Rafa. I've no doubt you would deny it, but I bet you've thought about the size of Rafa's wedding tackle and, following the mental image that burdened you with, you hated him a little bit more.
For a long time you covered your own back with the pretense that you would "give him a fair crack", but this was blown out of the water recently with your resounding and somewhat overplayed revelation that you had firmly set up your 2-man in Camp Anti.

For longer than is humanly bearable the forum worked in the following way; you would thump out posts which dwarfed the entire unabridged large-print works of Shakespeare, closely followed by Saint saying something like "Oh yes, old bean - absolutely spiffing post". Then peewee would strike up with something resembling "yes mate and that is why rafa is a buffoon and kuyt sucks his c*ck".

Ren and Stimpy, AKA The Rock and Ace would then beat their literary meat over the anti's achievements in ridiculing the boss, and then sink back into obscurity.

One of the pro-Rafa posters would refute your claims with facts and mention in passing that peewee, TheRock and Acehole are a set of c*nts.
Cue the entrance, stage right, or Bam. Peewee's knight in stinking armour. He would wade in like the knuckle-headed oaf he truly is and start shooting his ill-educated mouth off in a desperate attempt to hang onto peewee's coattails.

Saint would post some spurious set of figures he had gone to extraordinary lengths to find in an attempt to belittle the pro-Rafa men, (well - Rafa - we all know that...).

Someone would post up the accurate figures, and Saint would withdraw.

TheRock would present to the watching World a masterclass in the art of the put down by quoting his favourite w*nking idol and saying "Know your role."

Ace would join the fray with a stunning rendition of startling similarity to TheRock, but add something like "you apple-swallower" or "your mum is a whore."

Both would hit the "Report to Moderator" button several times over.

At this stage, Heimdall would post something completely ludicrous, and then congratulate whichever poster he agreed with.

GBYS would pipe up with something that upsets the forum's self-appointed oracle, prompting the release of the 70 volume Encyclopedia BigMickittica, and the whole cycle would begin again.

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Now forgive me, Mick, if I don't have the time or inclination to become embroiled in this pointless cycle any more. You lot have managed to make yourselves harder to debate football with than Everton fans.

That is, of course, unless you are an Anti, in which case the World is full of fluffy animals and the sky is always blue...


I'm not suggesting that the pro's are innocent, of course. But I honestly feel that it is a very sorry state of affairs indeed when it is frowned upon to support the gaffer.

[bigmick]

Good post that fella, I enjoyed it

[supersub]

Best post for weeks by far and nail hit firmly on head

Lando's post that is!

[bigmick]

Best post for weeks by far and nail hit firmly on head

Lando's post that is!

Ah the old impartial modding again I see I do agree that Lando's post is witty and a good read though, like I say I enjoyed it myself.

Anyway without wanting to get sidetracked into a bout of silliness, I do think the forum would be improved both by a modification of the card system, and if some of the old faces were back.

[dawson99]

what old faces? some of them are gone for a good reason.
and the anti's are really annoying, but so are so many things lately
As for Landos post hitting nail on the head.. it did, but he left out the fact that he calls everyone a cnut when he doesnt get his own fat way

[bigmick]

what old faces? some of them are gone for a good reason.
and the anti's are really annoying, but so are so many things lately
As for Landos post hitting nail on the head.. it did, but he left out the fact that he calls everyone a cnut when he doesnt get his own fat way

The "anti's" are really annoying 

The whole point of discussion forums is surely that people with sometimes contrasting views can discuss a given subject. If we were all died in the wool pro-Rafa Benitez devotees, then the place would become pretty boring pretty quickly. Similarly, if everyone hated the manager with a passion (I'm not sure anybody actually does but that seems to be the buzz phrase these days) it would be equally tedious.

As it is, if you start a thread asking the question "Have we missed a trick not signing Owen on a free" you get accused of all sorts. Not sure why really, as the sensible answer if you don't think we have is simply to say "No, and the reason we haven't is this". Unfortunately however, any football discussion on the forum has to meander through a minefield of people desperately trying to derail the conversation onto their favoured agenda, i.e. "you just hate the manager and this is an excuse to get at him".

It makes the World go round. It doesn't annoy me particularly, it makes me laugh sometimes more than anything.

As for "old faces" I've gone through that earlier.

[supersub]

Best post for weeks by far and nail hit firmly on head

Lando's post that is!

Ah the old impartial modding again I see I do agree that Lando's post is witty and a good read though, like I say I enjoyed it myself.

Anyway without wanting to get sidetracked into a bout of silliness, I do think the forum would be improved both by a modification of the card system, and if some of the old faces were back.

I merely posted a comment in referrence to a post by Lando so how did any moderating come into it...?

sadly it's the continued berating of the mods that has stained this forum of late...

As for the members who are banned; they will not be returning.