Ok, just don't come complaining when some of you are on the end of a ban and also don't constantly ask us where posts or threads have gone.

As Mods we don't have the time to tell you why a thread was removed, we will just remove it, sometimes only the odd post will be removed but if a thread is full of ODD posts then the whole thread will be removed, sometimes that will remove some good posts or serious discussions but unfortunatley that is the way it will be.

Anyone from now on that questions the moderation process will be banned after 1 warning and it will be sitewide nor will it be revoked.

If we find ourselves removing more posts from a user than we allow to stay then expect them to also be banned to lessen the workload on here.

In terms of banning, all we have access to do is Ban a username, sitewide bans become ban on site and as soon as we know who the new user is they will be banned again.

Be sensible and add to discussions and you will be ok.

People shouldn't be ashamed if that's their opion, if someone doesn't feel the same way about that person's opion then so be it, but knowone should feel intimidated becuase of what they think.

Good stuff. Could we also try and dissuade some of the more prominent users from the practice of unearthing ancient posts just for their self amusement unless it adds to the forum quality. I find it quite annoying and distracting when trying to find valid, current, RL debate only to see a 2 year old post on Lee Briers raked up with a smiley face post. I was shocked when I discovered the culprit.

I wasn't he does it all the time along with Cockney.

It was a comment on the fact that two years ago (almost to the day) someone said we could not play without Briers and that is again the debate this week. Perhaps I shuold have written that rather than just use the smiley. I see nothing wrong with bringing back old threads if they are relevant.

Where's the Ban Hamster when you need him?

Indeed, bringing back old posts really does my head in as well.

I aggree though that if it is relevant, bring it back but post more than a smiley for us thick types who fail to undestand what the point is.

"Lighten up, it's just a forum"

I think these words should be our mantra tbh.
I could count on the number of one hand the people who frequent this board that I actually know in person, and even then, I knew them before I knew their RLfans username. For the main, it this merry band of few that I disagree with the most - in terms of quantity and magnitude. I can honestly say that not once did I bump into St Conroy in the street and he stopped me to say "You short, ugly Swear Filtering so-and-so, how very dare you have a different opinion from me. That's it, our friendship is over".

Similarly, I have never been stopped in the street by someone saying "Norven Soul, you, aren't you?" then beat me up/shook my hand for something I'd posted on here.
I don't understand why some people insist on 'causing disruption' as though it's some form of teenage rebellion. We've all posted a jokey post now and again, or started a tongue-in-cheek thread, but we're hardly a forum of political satirists, are we? I can just see some hairy assed bloke in the Red Lion discussiong how the mods are like mini-Hitlers due to the swear filter or because their thread on the activities of Panama Jacks' regulars had been locked.

The cliques seem to have disappered, that is of course if they ever existed.