Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:08 pm
It's a tough one this. I've not been around here for far too long but I've just had a quick read through the thread and can see quite clearly why Stu got barred but equally can see why he feels hard done by. Ultimately I guess it all boils down to who is on the end of abusive attacks and how they react to it. Personally it wouldn't bother me one iota if someone called me anything at all on an internet forum and therefore would never call for the banning of fellow supporters for it. If however a poster does take offence to percieved abuse, he is fully entitled to bring it to the notice of a mod, who is then pretty much duty bound to ask for some calming down from the perpertrator. If that person (in this case Stu) flatly refuses to listen to reason then clearly he runs the risk of putting the mod in the position where he feels he has no choice but to ban him. This is what I suspect has happened here.
There seems to me to be two possible solutions. Either, 1) Stu remains banned and everybody forgets about it or 2) He offers a full apology to the people concerned and if they subsequently agree to accept it, he is allowed back in.
I think it is entirely the right way that those who felt offended should have the final say.
As an aside, I would ask people to consider that if they wish to rip into people and dish out abuse they have frequent opportunities on here to legitimately do so when we get our weekly visits from Everton/Man U supporters. Perhaps if people fell out with the real time wasters, spammers and bullsh!te merchants and tried their best to at least be civil to fellow Liverpool supporters, the forum would be a better place.
There seems to me to be two possible solutions. Either, 1) Stu remains banned and everybody forgets about it or 2) He offers a full apology to the people concerned and if they subsequently agree to accept it, he is allowed back in.
I think it is entirely the right way that those who felt offended should have the final say.
As an aside, I would ask people to consider that if they wish to rip into people and dish out abuse they have frequent opportunities on here to legitimately do so when we get our weekly visits from Everton/Man U supporters. Perhaps if people fell out with the real time wasters, spammers and bullsh!te merchants and tried their best to at least be civil to fellow Liverpool supporters, the forum would be a better place.