Can we all behave please.

Biltong wrote:There is a big difference discussing events of the past weekend in a mature manner and making wild general assumptions of whole nations based on one individuals actions.

There is also an unacceptably immature nature in which personal attacks are levied at people rather than attacking the issues at hand.

Biltong wrote:Yeah rogerlewis has decided to leave 606v2.

Whilst I am fedup is there anyone else who doesn't know where the door is?

Morgannwg wrote:Biltong, some anti-welsh idiots who are obsessed with Wales got a good thread of mine locked. I'd appreciate in future if you could just remove their comments and issue a warning.

I'm assuming you are now banned but if you are reading Roger, I am the one who complained about your England beating up NZ article. We have enough topics discussing Wales vs NZ and Andrew Hore, plus you levelled uneccesary bigotry at New Zealand with what you wrote. My complaint was made to stop another bickering thread, plus it would just give awop more ammunition to come and post more ridiculous articles, ammo he doesn't really need.

TycroesOsprey wrote:You have built a rod for your own back Biltong when you condoned the pidgin english of a certain poster you made the modding team look ridiculous. Enough people have left this board or rarely post anymore because of the incessant trolling by a few individuals who have been allowed to run amok by the modding team.

Hookisms and Hyperbole wrote:

Biltong wrote:Yeah rogerlewis has decided to leave 606v2.

Whilst I am fedup is there anyone else who doesn't know where the door is?

Declan Kidney. Have a word with him, will you please?

TycroesOsprey wrote:You have built a rod for your own back Biltong when you condoned the pidgin english of a certain poster you made the modding team look ridiculous. Enough people have left this board or rarely post anymore because of the incessant trolling by a few individuals who have been allowed to run amok by the modding team.

Biltong wrote:

TycroesOsprey wrote:You have built a rod for your own back Biltong when you condoned the pidgin english of a certain poster you made the modding team look ridiculous. Enough people have left this board or rarely post anymore because of the incessant trolling by a few individuals who have been allowed to run amok by the modding team.

Tycroes right now your accusations are not helping.

It seems I am alone here tonight and has had enough of this nonsense, I am not the only one trying to moderate the forum and we usually discuss corrective measures as a team.

If you think it is that straight forward you are mistaken.

HERSH wrote:Can I be a Mod for the night Bil?

I help sort out this nonsense.

fa0019 wrote:Not saying you're wrong in trying to stop this ridiculous anti ABs campaign.... I agree with you. But I would say that I hardly saw any difference to what roger Lewis said.... And what the v2 journal glas a du wrote.

His comments may have been a little more subtle but it was just as poor in taste...I.e. the accusation that the ABs cheat, that they went out to take specific players out early, that they have favour with the irb and Joubert was just out to appease the ABs to benefit his own career.

Why was that not closed down too?

If we're going to have an enforced law, lets use it for everyone.... Mods, v2 writers, the lot.

Otherwise you're doing a good job dude... Trust a boere to being a natural polisieman!

fa0019 wrote:Not saying you're wrong in trying to stop this ridiculous anti ABs campaign.... I agree with you. But I would say that I hardly saw any difference to what roger Lewis said.... And what the v2 journal glas a du wrote.

His comments may have been a little more subtle but it was just as poor in taste...I.e. the accusation that the ABs cheat, that they went out to take specific players out early, that they have favour with the irb and Joubert was just out to appease the ABs to benefit his own career.

Why was that not closed down too?

Biltong wrote:There is a big difference discussing events of the past weekend in a mature manner and making wild general assumptions of whole nations based on one individuals actions.

kingjohn7 wrote:Boys are you having a go at moderators? Biltong how much do you get paid for doing moderating? Sweet FA probably, thank you for spending your time helping with a forum that I enjoy very much, aside from the BORING BORING BORING wums. Thanks for the hard work

kingjohn7 wrote:Boys are you having a go at moderators? Biltong how much do you get paid for doing moderating? Sweet FA probably, thank you for spending your time helping with a forum that I enjoy very much, aside from the BORING BORING BORING wums. Thanks for the hard work

TJ wrote:Biltong - my suggestion - lock thread started to cause rows - and just ban the trolls. No warning - short ban. they can always be unbanned in the morning

I would also suggest that some posters need to stop being so sensitive.

Too much Holly Wilaboobie for tat and people both complaining of others being on the windup then posters attacking themselves There is a simply way to deal with trolls - ignore them. Just do not reply to them at all. they will disappear if no one answers them.

If you have never moderated a forum then please do not criticise the mods - its a very difficult task to tread the line between over zealous modding and lassie faire

David Aaronovitch's 10 Golden Rules:
1.Twitter IS publishing. Putting it out there for others to read is publishing. So don’t tweet anything you wouldn’t be happy to see on the newsagent’s shelf with a picture of you above it.
2.You think you know the law of libel. You don’t. Nor do any of your friends. I have had grown men telling me on Twitter this week that repeating a libel is not itself libel (it is) or that if you don’t directly say X is a rampant Y, but just hint at it then it doesn’t count (it does).
3.If you’re an obscure nobody who no one follows, but who wants to say something rude sort-of privately, don’t do it under a trending hashtag. You will bring the wrath of thousands of strangers down on your hapless head.
4.Some people LIKE the wrath of strangers. They’re called trolls. If you feel yourself bridling at repeated rude comments aimed at you and your cherished views then just BLOCK the offender. They disappear as if by magic.
5.You are hurt. Wounded. Someone has questioned your talent or integrity. You wish to howl with online pain. Don’t. Those who enjoy your discomfiture will gather like crows around a carcase. Laugh. Put up a smiley.
6.That brilliant retort you have composed, replete with pungent sexual or violent imagery, which will utterly destroy the Twitter foe who has, despite my advice, so annoyed you? Cherish it. Roll its 140 characters on your tongue. And then, for God’s sake, DELETE IT.
7.Don’t tweet while drunk. You think it’s clever, and funny, you giggle and dribble at your own brilliant verbiage. But you are opening wide the gates of Hell. Morning will come, cold and clear.
8.Don’t EVER meet a jolly Twitter companion, even one you’ve been ff’ing (suggesting people follow you every Friday) for months. Not without a police report. I learnt the hard way.
9.Get yourself a decent avatar (picture) on Twitter. Not that default egg or the eye slicing scene from Un Chien Andalou. For everyone else’s sake.
10.Lastly, the golden rule, the rule of rules. Never, ever tweet anything about anybody that you wouldn’t say to their face. There’s a REASON why you wouldn’t say it to their face. They might hit you, or sue you. So why would you want to tweet it?
http://timesopinion.tumblr.com/post/36058467599/the-10-golden-rules-of-twitter

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:Hang in there Biltong.

I echo fa0019's comments. I find it disappointing that an article based mainly on speculation and generalisation gets promoted as a showpiece of V2 whereas other posts of equally poor taste get locked. I'd love to hear Glas a du say what he wrote to Andrew Hore's face.