Shortie
- 03 Feb 2015 13:47
What's a forum without people posting, some friendly banter and opposing views. By MAMs decision to remove the above posters we now have less views and these forums have lost their humour and rich content. I say bring back GF and DB immediately.
Please post your support if you agree?
jimmy b
- 05 Feb 2015 11:11
- 88 of 266
Death threats Bullshare ?? that's a bit drastic !!!!
Fred1new
- 05 Feb 2015 11:18
- 89 of 266
Exec.
I was aware moderators and interventions.
Agree with some of P 81 mainly;
So 'Yes', I would like to see Goldfinger back posting on here and given a Yellow Card instead of a complete ban.
The problem which MM may be wary of is when a poster is suggesting the "threat" of taking legal advice and the costs surrounding the unlikely possibility of "actions" or the
pain in the arse of preparing for such.
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To me the skirmishes between DB4 and GF remind me of my kids (all girls) when they were about 4 - 7 complaining that when they were passing on the stairs from one floor to the the other that one blew on the other.
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I think it would be possible for the participants to "grow" up, recognise that neither party is physically bruised or bleeding, and both parties have food to eat and not losing money.
Apologise to one another and MM and be reinstated on condition to try to stay out of other's hair, or otherwise be sent to their own rooms.
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Both contributed to this thread and often "enlivened it".
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(I wish I could get my hands on a moderator to help me deal with my wife. 8-))
Bullshare
- 05 Feb 2015 11:21
- 90 of 266
Jimmy B , Tell me about it, but the police arrested the individual within 3 hours and was sectioned.
BB's are a weird world and some people take things far to seriously. It would be lovely if we could all get on in a civilised way.
Fred1new
- 05 Feb 2015 11:34
- 91 of 266
Bullshare,
I was physically threatened by E-mails via MM.
I was a little bit fitter than I am now and thought at the time that the E-mailer may have been in for an interesting experience.
Bullshare
- 05 Feb 2015 12:38
- 92 of 266
Fred: probably the same person we had the threats from. Sorry you had that experience , not good at all.
Fred1new
- 05 Feb 2015 13:02
- 93 of 266
Bullshare.
Not your fault or responsibility.
It happens.
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When you view the amount of mud slinging on PM Questions, is it a wonder that "virtual" posters copy the behaviour viewed?
cynic
- 05 Feb 2015 13:09
- 94 of 266
bloody labour rent-a-thug
ExecLine
- 05 Feb 2015 13:09
- 95 of 266
Mike
I'm sorry but the mysterious 5 BB users, who may or may not post on the BB and, if they don't thus mysteriously skulk around in the background, isn't a healthy way to moderate, IMHO.
Let's assume they do post....
If so I would like to see a 'moderator identifier' attached to their username. That way, users can actually see an open and honest 'MoneyAM' association with that poster.
In other words, you 'know who you are talking to' and so would obviously be 'more careful about what you say'. And you know who to go to when and if the need arises because you can see who is around at the time.
Hey! This is YOUR BUSINESS and you don't need whippersnappers like me to tell you how to run it.
But when you (and the rest of us) lose the 'mostly' very valuable and somewhat prolific posting of a contributor like Goldfinger it is a sad event.
He produces 'page clicks' and 'others also do so' in response to joining in with the conversation. All of this amplifies up.
But again, it's a 'trade off'. If he brings money in but at the same time causes staff hassle then you have to evaluate the worth of him. Obviously, you've done this and come down on him towards the negative with a Red Card for him.
But it shouldn't have come to this!
My point is, because the moderation methodology of MoneyAM is so very bad, golfinger felt unsupported by it and went a bit ballistic. When the staff or the 5 BBers could have done something but chose not to, he then gave you all something far worse to have to deal with by way of both frustration and revenge.
In conclusion, IMHO, the moderation is not fit for purpose on here. It is far too lightweight.
But so is the imput for users from the MoneyAm side of things. Your punters are bored on here and you don't do too much about livening things up. I guess that's why they have bursts of entertaining themselves.
Apologies if I offend. I'm a blunt guy, now ex-Yorkshire, which might explain things, I guess. At times, I do tend to call a spade a shovel.
cynic
- 05 Feb 2015 13:19
- 96 of 266
the implication yesterday was that the (very silly) spat between DB and GF and the "wrecking posts" occurred just over a single w/e ..... this was most certainly not the case, and if memory serves me aright, it carried on for a good week and more and maybe even several before anyone within the MAM management woke up and decided to act
jimmy b
- 05 Feb 2015 13:25
- 97 of 266
I must say there are some proper hypocrites here , Excecline i should be careful what you write .
aldwickk
- 05 Feb 2015 13:33
- 98 of 266
Execline
I don't agree , Mike & Ian have the right balance in moderating the board
golfinger felt unsupported He was unsupported because he was in the wrong.
cynic
- 05 Feb 2015 13:37
- 99 of 266
it doesn't matter much whether GF or DB was in the wrong
other than should either or both have been given yellow or red cards, there is a valid debate as to whether Mike and his Merry Men were anything like as alert as they should have been in nipping this whole silly spat in the bud
i couldn't possibly comment!
HARRYCAT
- 05 Feb 2015 13:47
- 100 of 266
We generally don't need moderators. We are responsible adults who know the difference between acceptable and unacceptable. So those people who lack the skills to self moderate don't belong on a public BB.
.........'gf lacked support from the MAM moderators'........good grief! He's kicked off more times than I can remember. Jeez what a load of rubbish, imo.
cynic
- 05 Feb 2015 13:50
- 101 of 266
how pompous of you harry
aldwickk
- 05 Feb 2015 13:52
- 102 of 266
What i won't miss is Goldfinger trashing his own thread [ the talk to yourself thread ] with his non stop polictical views and copy & paste from the loony left in between Fred's long winded'tripe and his large offensive polictial cartoons
skinny
- 05 Feb 2015 13:54
- 103 of 266
What is the talk to yourself thread?
aldwickk
- 05 Feb 2015 13:57
- 104 of 266
agree 100% Harry
cynic
it doesn't matter much whether GF or DB was in the wrong
Don't be silly, if it didn't matter we wouldn't have had this thread
aldwickk
- 05 Feb 2015 13:58
- 105 of 266
skinny
NOWT
Fred1new
- 05 Feb 2015 14:02
- 106 of 266
Self moderation! umumumh.
A bit hopeful when some enjoy being so beastly!
There are such things as pardons.
cynic
- 05 Feb 2015 14:04
- 107 of 266
aldo .... you have cherry-picked and thus taken something completely out of context
i guess i could have started instead by saying that both DB and GF were in the wrong (which is true), and then continued as i did