Stu, You have my respect! Call me *** licker if you want lol

 

Do you guys want to get a room?

 

Only if its yours! LOL (Joke before i get infracted!)

 

Just a little reply to this. Just 'cos

Although it is true that you know who we are, we'd quite like to have our proper accounts unbanned because we put the time and effort in to amass a decent quantity of posts etc. and posting behind a doppelganger pseudonym without our proper identities is a bit annoying

 

Thanks for your post, i agree with it wholeheartedly. If i was american i probably would be spitting blood, but instead im now embarassed to be English. Which is worse?


For reference, i started, grew, sold and still administrate a website that has more traffic than this one you are all posting on now and I have been administrator of it for 5.5 long hard years now. (See how i am now counting half years... its a sign Ive had enough. lol) So please try not to tar me with an incorrect PC geek brush.

Also, I personally own, serve and run over 20 websites and 3 forums from my own servers, not counting any IB owned ones. I am not some geek in an office that doesn't understand communities... far from it, i love them and understand them well enough to grow one from nothing to busier than SN is now in under 5 years. I've served my time.

 

Your not liked over there though are you? Bit of a gossip by all accounts

 

IIRC 22b isn't too forgiving to not so technical folk either

 

Why did you get such long bans ?

 

 

Do you feel the need for an Infraction System on your other forums/websites?

 

It's damn good to see some actual civilized dialog going on here!

It is possible!!

 

Yes, a busy automotive community cannot survive without such a system. They soon descend into anarchy due to the extreme cross section of users an automotive forum will attract and serve.

My kickboxing forum is peacefuill and hasnt seen a single infraction in over a year. LOL. Go figure. My theory is that martial arts do actually extract a large amount of your overflowing testosterone and calm down that horrible feeling you want to make someone pay, and pay soon!

Driving sports cars amid all our laws and restrictions seems to have a totally inverse effect. Well, unless its an M5 of course.

 

Its a good job you said M5 and not MX5 otherwise you would have the SNKing in a lather

 

A quick perusal through 'history' shows that you have left and returned to SN on a few occasions and all those years back, you still seemed to be popular

Jan 2004

So I am wondering, if you seem to dislike this place and the admin team and many of the people who frequent it, why you have suddenly re-appeared and are continuing where you left off ?

Just genuinely curious.

 

If you ban religion and politics discussions you may no longer need the infraction system

 

Because Simon didn't like me

 

Onan, I normally would have agreed with all that, except for one point.
Time - yes Effort - hardly

I can see your point about the postcount, but surely the count is not important, nor is the name. The thing that matters is the content of your posts ?

 

I kinda agree with you, Swiss. But at the end of the day, if the landlord of your local banned you for swearing and then told you that you could come back in but only if you agree to crawl through the catflap and change your name to Derek, would you do it or tell him to go f*ck himself and find another pub to drink in

.....and yes, I agree, my comedic genius does have a certain effortless quality to it

 

Driving cars and some of the posting styles on here have many similar parallels. I think the point that people demonstrate road rage because they are behind the safety of their cars is akin to the keyboard warrior mentality

 

dribble mainly

 

Really? Dammit. I was hoping my thousands of gibberish posts would count for SOMETHING.

 

It would have to be a bloody big cat flap

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Nope
If I changed my username to Susan, my posting style would still be a lot of tosh

 

Thanks for your answer, but Scoobynet did survive - in fact thrived - without the Infraction System.

It served well to remove the spam from the site, but it alienated many of the members which made the site what it was.

In my opinon a Forum should allow differing views, as long as those views are made without foul language and without bad taste. The Infraction is simply used these days by a few small minded to silence others with views which differ from their own.

If the post gets a very negative vote then an Infraction could be automatically issued - if others in the community see nothing wrong with the post they could vote for it to be reversed (using the very same thumbs up/down as now).

Reference your KickBoxing Forum, it does not surprise me about the lack of Infractions - I have a few friends who are heavy into this sport as well as weightlifting with me in the gym ..... they would think it utterly pathetic to Infract someone, they have a confidence in themselves which doesn't lend itself to Infracting (they have the ability to ignore).

The small minded who have no power in real life love to Infract and you don't tend to get those in kickboxing!

 

If this infraction system HAS to stay. Would it not be fair to make the decision on objections given to more Mods rather than just one person deciding if the infraction should stay or go. One person can't speak for all at the end of the day. And if other people agreed the infraction should not have been dished out, this has generally been ignored, because of the one person making the decision.
Does that make any sense

 

Been using Clove oil for toothache?

 

Of course it's important! It's an identity that's been built up. Often it's one that people remember and associate with posts and threads in the past - perhaps fondly, perhaps less so. Would you be happy to start as a newbie again?

 

I've said just the same earlier. Simply pass the ability to reverse infractions onto the Mods. If there are any contentious ones these can simply be dicussed in the Mods forum. Or create a new sub-forum where the infractions are discussed. Then when a consensus is reached the infraction is dealt with.

If it's just bloody obvious and a no-brainer, then mod in situ could reverse straight away.

 

But you are not on your own to run this forum are you? so others might be american

and you did read the rest of my post >stop trying to act so smug ....its like Simons returned !!!!!

 

Sorry Kieran, I have been skimming Thanks, glad you got what I meant