Instead of Locking Threads

[Jacobarch]

Instead of Locking threads, why not just start perma banning people? You have enough people on these forums, banning a couple of bad eggs who can't follow the rules wont hurt this forum at all. On the contrary, it will help it.

 

[RhodyRams]

Instead of Locking threads, why not just start perma banning people? You have enough people on these forums, banning a couple of bad eggs who can't follow the rules wont hurt this forum at all. On the contrary, it will help it.

because we value every one of our members here, mo matter their beliefs.

We don't like to ban people.. easy as that.

Unfortunately, despite warnings, some folks are insistent on bending/breaking the rules we have in place. Those are the people that get banned, after repeated suspensions

 

[Faceplant]

I'm not sure all members deserve to be valued, unfortunately. It's the very same that show their ass in times like these. Pathetic. I will be handing out the ignores for only the 2nd time in my 15 years on this board.

 

[Mackeyser]

Dang…I always miss the drama…LOL

 

[XXXIVwin]

Dang…I always miss the drama…LOL

Lucky you

 

[VegasRam]

I'm not sure all members deserve to be valued, unfortunately. It's the very same that show their ass in times like these. Pathetic. I will be handing out the ignores for only the 2nd time in my 15 years on this board.

I have 2 now as well.
I wonder if we have the same other one?

(...and then there's the dominant/dominate pet peeve...)

 

[RamFanWA]

because we value every one of our members here, mo matter their beliefs.

We don't like to ban people.. easy as that.

Unfortunately, despite warnings, some folks are insistent on bending/breaking the rules we have in place. Those are the people that get banned, after repeated suspensions

Seems like everyone got banned - not just the perps...

 

[Londoner]

I never put people on ignore.

Sometimes, you just need a good laugh.

 

[Dodgersrf]

I'm not sure all members deserve to be valued, unfortunately. It's the very same that show their ass in times like these. Pathetic. I will be handing out the ignores for only the 2nd time in my 15 years on this board.

This is what we really want to avoid.

We left a thread open, hoping that it could be civil.
Which was a mistake, unfortunately.

We want people here that share common interests, even if political interests don’t align.

 

[Memento]

It's about respect, period. No politics. No religion. Just a simple rest in peace and condolences to the family, even if you don't like the person. Or, if you know you can't do that, avoid the thread like I did.

I don't see what's so hard about that.

 

[Londoner]

It's about respect, period.

Come on, Jemma: you slag off people all the time: look at the Houston match thread, for example.

 

[Faceplant]

I have 2 now as well.
I wonder if we have the same other one?

(...and then there's the dominant/dominate pet peeve...)

Probably!

 

[dieterbrock]

 

[Faceplant]

This is what we really want to avoid.

We left a thread open, hoping that it could be civil.
Which was a mistake, unfortunately.

We want people here that share common interests, even if political interests don’t align.

Avoid what, the ignore feature? Why? It's a great (NON VIOLENT) way to rid yourself of someone that you just don't care to listen to.....

 

[Faceplant]

It's about respect, period. No politics. No religion. Just a simple rest in peace and condolences to the family, even if you don't like the person. Or, if you know you can't do that, avoid the thread like I did.

I don't see what's so hard about that.

This right here. I just can't imagine someone being so twisted that they would celebrate the cold blooded murder of someone over POLITICAL differences. That's.... sociopathic.

Also, and FWIW, I didn't follow Kirk... But when I saw that vid (wish I hadn't), it shocked and saddened me. I just can't wrap my head around any other reaction to something like that.

 

[Memento]

Come on, Jemma: you slag off people all the time: look at the Houston match thread, for example.

Respect towards other members of the forum, London, and for that matter, respect towards the deceased. Disagree with others during a heated football match? Sure. But on a rest in peace thread? I don't care who has passed or what their politics are; you don't go inserting yours, period. Someone died. You wouldn't act like that if that was someone you cared about.

 

[OldSchool]

Wouldn't work anyways but my first thought is there are people who turn things political even if the discussion isn't. It really comes down to if you don't like a thread or the comments you don't have to respond and too many feel they have to respond and usually make things worse.

Just don't participate, that's certainly why I participate so much less here lately.

 

[Londoner]

Just don't participate,

The problem is that if opposing voices aren't heard, this forum runs the risk of becoming an echo chamber.

And nobody wants that.

 

[Memento]

The problem is that if opposing voices aren't heard, this forum runs the risk of becoming an echo chamber.

And nobody wants that.

Not on a rest in peace thread, not when someone is killed in such a brutal way, not when they're leaving behind two young children, and certainly not before their body is even cold. That's the wrong place and time. And I do not care whom it is. Death should be respectful and sacred. It's the final stop, and in some beliefs, that's literally it, nothing else afterward.

I lost two of my grandparents this year, grandparents whom I cherished with all of my heart, grandparents who played a giant role in what little good I've done, grandparents whom I don't believe I'll ever see or talk to ever again, because if there is an afterlife, I know I'm going down, not to a heaven like them.

The death of someone should be respectful and tactful, and if you can't do that, don't participate. Period.

 

[Jacobarch]

It's America. People get shot all the time.

Yeah it's a problem, much like getting thrown in jail for mean tweets.