Petition to ban a user (1 Viewer)

Ban?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 75.9%
  • No

    Votes: 7 24.1%

  • Total voters
    29
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Grendel

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I'm not in favour of banning anyone. I'm most definitely not on board with the current trend for 'cancelling' and 'no platforming' people. In this case it's probably a troll, but if it were a genuinely nasty person then having access to a chat site with tolerant people is the best treatment available. If you don't like him/her, don't interact with him/her - nobody is forcing you to do so.

I agree. Platforming is a just a way to try and stop discussion

Some long standing posters have been banned in my view unfairly
 
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shmmeee

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Just ignore people you don’t like.

Id ban people if they are derailing threads and making the forum not work as it should for discussion. But not for just being a dickhead. Most of the regular posters would be banned under those rules ;)
 
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TTG

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Thank you for all the replies I am realitivly inexperienced with the forum so will add to ignore list.

Homophobia has no place in football or in life. Online forum or not.
 

mrtrench

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Somewhere between the waitress and her table.
Thank you for all the replies I am realitivly inexperienced with the forum so will add to ignore list.

Homophobia has no place in football or in life. Online forum or not.

Agreed. But we all have different opinions, some of them quite distasteful to others - once we start silencing people for homophobia what next? And, of course, the best way of persuading someone they are wrong is through example and engagement - not exile.
 

rob9872

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He reminds me of 'SeeyaGunnerson', or did he become 'Valiant/The Coventrian'?
Nah he tried to be funny. He wasn't funny, but the coventrians just an out and out c**t. Cant be banning people though like some said put him on ignore. I think this place needs brightening up at the mo with no footie chat so just observe and dont get involved with him, but id be lying if i said i didnt find the arguments and some of the reactions mildly entertaining.
 

Paxman II

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When you start banning you are denying free speech, and the ability to understand all viewpoints. But excessive abusive post that become threatening need a warning. Most of us have thick skins, and can give as good as we get.
 

Grendel

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It’s hard to believe that anyone actually felt genuinely threatened by it.

Sky Blue Kid regularly used to PM me to ask to meet him so he could smash my face in. Once he asked to meet at “his gaff” I pointed out a soup kitchen in some welsh shit hole really wasn’t for me
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Simple solution - ignore the WUM/troll. Clearly doing it for the attention and getting people's backs up so ignore it. Don't reply to anything ever. If they aren't getting any attention, short term they'll try and up the ante with the insults but if you continue to ignore them they'll get bored and go away.

Like a kid throwing a tantrum. Ignore the tantrum and they'll eventually stop. Keep on reacting to them and they'll carry on with them.
 

bawtryneal

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The freedom of speech argument is a bit bollocks though isn’t it. People can say what they want but this is a private forum and if you allow any old shit regular posters will disappear, the trolls stop as there is nobody to troll and the whole things ends up shut down.

100% agree.
Banter and piss take are fine
Insults about "getting a bullet" and homophobic comments out of order.
 
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hill83

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calling someone a faggot isn’t homophobic

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rob9872

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I’ve literally been in a massive fight coming out of rainbows with my gay cousin as he was repeatedly kicked in the head and called a “fucking faggott”. Let me just double check with him to see if that was homophobic or not. Give me a minute.
I agree that it is a homophobic name, but if I was gay, I think I'd rather be called that 1000 times than be 'repeatedly kicked in the head'
 

Liquid Gold

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I’ve literally been in a massive fight coming out of rainbows with my gay cousin as he was repeatedly kicked in the head and called a “fucking faggott”. Let me just double check with him to see if that was homophobic or not. Give me a minute.
Gay actually means happy, are you saying your cousin is happy guy? Anything to do with him being in a homosexual bar?
 

cc84cov

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Thank you for all the replies I am realitivly inexperienced with the forum so will add to ignore list.

Homophobia has no place in football or in life. Online forum or not.
No need to add to ignore mate he’s been banned I believe
 
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Grendel

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I’ve literally been in a massive fight coming out of rainbows with my gay cousin as he was repeatedly kicked in the head and called a “fucking faggott”. Let me just double check with him to see if that was homophobic or not. Give me a minute.

Well depends on context

Stokes received 1 match ban and fine
 

Grendel

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So it can be homophobic depending on the context then. Thanks.

Or it can just be a insult without any particular context
 

better days

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I always tell people who've been the subject of online abuse that the perpetrator is usually a 25 stone weirdo who lives at home with his mum and never leaves his bedroom
 

Johnnythespider

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wyken on the naze
16 year old virgin with anger issues, much like the one giving Ian Wright the full Alf Garnett treatment in the week
 

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