Cyprus Personal attacks

Admin · Forum Admin

I am afraid that the personal attacks problem is getting a bit out of hand so we have to get more strict Evil or Very Mad

From now (look the day and time of this post) the new strict rules apply.

If somebody has made a personal attack on you do not reply in a similar manner. Report him/her to me with a private message instead.

I don't have the time to delete 10s of posts and to give warnings every day. If you pass the threshold you will get banned without warning for 2 days minimum. People that brake this rule repeatedly will be permanently banned.

This will also be the case for people that don't even try to stay on topic.

By the way, if you though you made a friendly joke and you got banned this means you shouldn't make that kind of jokes Wink

magikthrill · lecturer

uh-oh

looks like the POE-LEECE is on our bum guys.

ill be in charge for looking out for rats who go and cry to the admin about being attacked Twisted Evil

Admin · Forum Admin

Nobody is crying to the Admin. It is just that some people want to have conversations of some level in here and not to be harassed by others.

I am sure most members can distinguish a good joke from an offensive one. Make "borderline" jokes only to the ones you are sure it will not bother them.

cannedmoose · professor

Thrill, I guess what admin's saying is that there are certain people lately who have been deliberately offensive to others. They do so because they regard the forum as a joke and see themselves as above participating in it. This probably means that the certain individuals involved have difficulty in forming normal relationships and take out their anger on people through the easiest channel, i.e. here.

I don't therefore think that admin wants to totally crack down on peoples' fun, I've received a number of notes from admin lately asking if I can cool it a little with the number and size of pictures and I am doing so. I have also been reprimanded (still got the marks) for responding in kind to a certain person's incredibly rude remarks. As such, I support admin's policy direction, although I hope that it will be used with some discretion. It's very easy to misconstrue what someone says through text alone and I would hope there are not cases where this happens and someone is permanently banned as a consequence. However, where someone is being explicitly offensive and obviously revelling in their 'rude-boy' status, that person should be banned without hesitation. I'm therefore disappointed that despite promises, admin has not yet banned the person who caused the most recent furore on here. I hope it's just a case of time.

Before you say it Thrill, I don't seek to get people banned willy-nilly. I 'know' how most people on this forum present themselves and in most cases outbursts are outbursts and as human beings we must understand that. For example, I know that if I make a joke about your relationship with the long-lost Marinella, it will be taken as so, similarly if we make jokes about Brother's dubious relationship with Main_Source, it will be taken in jest, however, to those that I don't understand I would not make such remarks, just as you wouldn't walk up to someone in the street and call them a poushti, yet you would with one of your mates.

But when someone deliberately adopts a hostile stance simply for their own gratification (i.e. to be noticed by the general crowd), I will seek to ban anyone who purposely sets out to be offensive. If that makes me a grass, then sobeit.

Main_Source · lecturer

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cannedmoose · professor

Source, your 'rude boy' status is more akin to

Main_Source · lecturer

Why was my post edited? This is ridiculous...this website is turning into something likw an islamic state. You can't post anything without it being edited now...and how many moderators are there!?

Main_Source · lecturer

I didnt even type anything offensive...unless 'Rude Boy' is a term deemed punishable by death from the Koran or something.

petethegreek · instructor

It seems that some people just have to be offensive.

Oh, I wonder why ur post was edited Source?

magikthrill · lecturer

what happened to my suggestion about edited posts being copy/pasted and sent to th eposter by the moderator with an explanatation of why it was edited.

maybe that way th emoderators will think twice aobut editing simple statements since it will require work for them to do so.

efficiency people... efficiency...