Alec Horan permanently banned? Why? What is going on?
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Alec Horan permanently banned? Why? What is going on?
What???
How can he be banned?
again??!!!
A permanent ban. Balls and buggeration, this forum is a joke. Totalitarianism is the by word. Alec has been on this forum in one way or another for years, he contributes greatly and I would like to think would not be banned unless he did something brutal. Bloody joke. At this rate we will have the utopia of forums. An empty one.
Balls and buggeration
im searching for my on,mine thesauraus!!
true i always thought alec was a live wire here
what thread caused his banning?...
Was it something to do with his rant at the Irish in the thread this morning, I thought it was just a Tongue in cheek craic?
CG
Alec has been here a long time and his posts while funny in the past have become nothing but boring abusive threads and posts. I never reported any of his threads BTW but i'd be surprised if many weren't...
I don't know what happened. Between you me and the wall I think anyone with personality isn't actually required, perhaps if we all go post on the ridiculous waste of time threads that abound in General at the moment, I mean threads where people say goodnight ffs? Is this playschool? then we will be ok. Unbelievable.
Why have you got that crown next to your name onlyme? Hmm?
Wow! I wish I hadn't gone out for half an hour.
Alec was banned due to a high level of complaints about the thread. As it happens, we have been discussing this in the mods forum today and we are debating a reducution of the ban.
Alec Horan for Taoiseach!!!
The ban has now been reduced to 5 days.
you know I've never reported a post/thread I mean the only time it comes to my attention is when I read like a thread like this thread which says others reported something I see no reason myself to report things why cant people just take it on the chin I do now remember that thread Alec H said Irish people were a shower of Wankers over politics behaviour so on twas funny seems like it was taken out of context if thats the case it would be no harm to remind moderators we are all over 18 here...
That's good news Samlad. But would it not be better to give a 'sinbin' type ban for maybe 24hrs for all offences, and then have it discussed amongst management and mods, before making the decision on the appropriate length of bans.
There seems to be a lot of 'spur of the moment' decisions regarding infractions and bans that lead to threads like this, that could be avoided.
You know, we do sometimes give a 24 hour 'time out' for people to reflect and give us time to discuss things. I think perhaps you're right and this might be a better approach for most cases as opposed to some. :)
Of course. But this works both ways. What people don't realise is that when someone decides to post a 'close to the bone' comment, we are attacked for letting it ride, and when we do take action, we are accused of going over the top. We end up being the bad guys for someone's 'not very well thought out' actions. Many people on here have said that they don't envy our jobs, but you know, that's life, but please remember we are not all infallable and will make decisions that not everyone agrees with.
I'm afraid not City Gent. Remember the thread was taken down because a few people were actually offended by it.
I thought it was quite funny but there we go:)
Funny. I answer on his thread and in 2 mins was GONE. Like always lately. He was may in bad mood and moaning. But he didnt say anything to get ban forever!!!!
I'm offended that the post was taken down.
I'd have thought given the nature of escorting, that an escort forum would have less politically correct bullshit.
Granted, I haven't seen the thread, and I'm unsure of it's nature, but if people are easily enough offended, that they can be offended by what some random stranger writes on an escorting forum on the internet, then they have bigger problems.
A 'sin bin' approach makes more sense, the last thing we want is a sanitised forum,we are ,as has already been pointed out,adults. The posters who always sail close to the wind,push the limits or delibrately stir things are always going to get banned because of their approach to posting. One thing i've learn't is that 'tongue in cheek' doesn't always come across in print