Digital Spy

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

There doesn't seem to be much excitement about the possibility of BB launching on C5, so it seems.:conf:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

DS needs to go kill itself

[Sawyer]

DS needs to go kill itself

What's the hate for Digital Spy on here?

[Patrick]

What's the hate for Digital Spy on here?

They hate us.

Plus they're boring compared to us, too nice and as the OP said there's no excitement at all for BB12 where as here and everywhere else in the UK there's talk of it.

[Stacey.]

Cus here's better :amazed:

[dizzy bint]

I think there is. I think some are waiting for it to be confirmed though.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

they banned me :bored:

[Sawyer]

I was going to sign up a while back. I don't I'll bother now. Just had a look at the BB C5 thread... Zzzzzzzz...

[Patrick]

Are they a community over there?

The way here we all know eachother and can have jokes and stuff together and we're pretty much, I'm not going to say Family because that's ******ing cheesy and stupid, but we either love eachother [not in that way] or hate eachother.

Is it like that over there?

Or are they all like :bored:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

they are all like :bored:

tibb >

[GypsyGoth]

There are a few people here that post there too, and they are cool, so over there can't be that bad.

[Patrick]

There are a few people here that post there too, and they are cool, so over there can't be that bad.

The general atmosphere here is better though.

Over there, I'm sure they're lovely people but they're pretty much..well that's all there is to them really from what I've seen and heard.

Although it was epic in Summer like in August when I had my 'Evict The 4 Bores' campaign and everyone from TiBB and DS kind of teamed up on Facebook and stuff aswell and helped eachother out.. but we failed, we only managed to get rid of Steve. hehe.

[Patrick]

LOL We should do a 'Forum Exchange' were like 10 People from TiBB are forced over to DS and Vice Versa.

I could just imagine it, I would be banned in 4 minutes for calling someone a giant ******.

[DigitalSid]

DS has an older (30 something) and more varied readership (not being a fan site) than TIBB so it's usership is (at times, refreshingly) more reserved plus everyone's being (rightly) realistic, this could still turn to nothing and if it doesn't it could turn out to be OK!-led rubbish, nothing wrong with being realistic, infact if that turns out to be the case, those who are will be the least pissed.

[DigitalSid]

Are they a community over there?

The way here we all know eachother and can have jokes and stuff together and we're pretty much, I'm not going to say Family because that's ******ing cheesy and stupid, but we either love eachother [not in that way] or hate eachother.

Is it like that over there?

Or are they all like :bored:

DS has 400,000 members and is the 4th largest forum in the world, TIBB, doesn't and isn't, it's bound to be more close-knit, though there is actually quite a community spirit on DS (if a bit cliquey at times) just a different one to the one here.

The general atmosphere here is better though.

Over there, I'm sure they're lovely people but they're pretty much..well that's all there is to them really from what I've seen and heard.

Although it was epic in Summer like in August when I had my 'Evict The 4 Bores' campaign and everyone from TiBB and DS kind of teamed up on Facebook and stuff aswell and helped eachother out.. but we failed, we only managed to get rid of Steve. hehe.

I disagree, I like both but the bickering and bitchiness on here can sometimes grate and make the place seem a tad immature and unwelcoming. I think, as you get older you'll appreciate the lack of that there (outside the showbiz section, which can be just as bad as here for that at times).

[DigitalSid]

They hate us.

They really don't, on the very rare occasion I've seen this site so much as mentioned there, only one or two posters have expressed any opinion on it one way or the other (and then because of the criticisms I made above), fact is people are more likely to want to air their negative views than their positive and not everyone likes the same things.

And what is there to get excited about? Nothing's been confirmed yet. I think a lot of the difference in reaction to this between DS and here is down to age, the majority of people on TIBB have only been watching since series 6 or 7 or aren't old enough to remember enough of the early series to appreciate just how much the show changed (for the worse) over the years, the majority of people on DS (including myself) have been watching since the webcams first went live in July 2000 and have had to put up with seeing the show they've been watching for a decade have every last penny squeezed from it by £ndemol over the last 5 or 6 years then left to fade into oblivion, with age and experience comes weariness and skepticism.

Plus they're boring compared to us, too nice and as the OP said there's no excitement at all for BB12 where as here and everywhere else in the UK there's talk of it.
They're really not, infact some of the anti-housemate bile on DS can make the anti-contestant bile on TIBB seem quite tame (getting really rather personal and not in a jest way). It can be even worse towards producers, Phil Edgar Jones was planning to post hints and tidbits there (ignorning initial warnings about how brutal some there can be) throughout the last series but was hounded off by mid-way point and wrote a rather flouncy post in a strop, unable to handle it, for which he was also ridiculed.

[GypsyGoth]

LOL We should do a 'Forum Exchange' were like 10 People from TiBB are forced over to DS and Vice Versa.

I could just imagine it, I would be banned in 4 minutes for calling someone a giant ******.

:laugh: A forum exchange would be fun.

And I think you being banned from there would take seconds :D

[flamingGalah!]

Digital Spy is sh*t, controlled by Hitler like Mods who make up their own rules as they go along & some extremely weird & over obsessed members who take you having an opinion that differs to their own as an act of war... It has some of the most mentally ill people I have ever seen on any forum too...

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Digital Spy is sh*t, controlled by Hitler like Mods who make up their own rules as they go along & some extremely weird & over obsessed members who take you having an opinion that differs to their own as an act of war... It has some of the most mentally ill people I have ever seen on any forum too...

:worship:

tibb >

[Princess]

The with DS 'community wise' is people mainly stick to their sections. Like the JJJ lot are all having a massive party in Bristol this weekend which John and Josie are actually going to[/jealous] but that's one thread in one section in a section in a section in another section on the forum. The place is huge.

[InOne]

Digital Spy is sh*t, controlled by Hitler like Mods who make up their own rules as they go along & some extremely weird & over obsessed members who take you having an opinion that differs to their own as an act of war... It has some of the most mentally ill people I have ever seen on any forum too...

Everyone jumped on me when all those Bennites joined and I called them Psychotic DS rejects. I knew I was right :bored:

[DigitalSid]

Digital Spy is sh*t, controlled by Hitler like Mods who make up their own rules as they go along & some extremely weird & over obsessed members who take you having an opinion that differs to their own as an act of war... It has some of the most mentally ill people I have ever seen on any forum too...

The rules are quite strict but remember DS is an international media company who's site is read by millions including those in the industry, they can and will get sued for even the slightest sniff of libel or defamation (forum owners are legally responsible for what their users post). All of the additional rules (not getting personal about contestants and presenters, not using txt speak, etc) that other sites don't have are made quite clear in the TOS guidelines though which you really should read before posting.

[DigitalSid]

The with DS 'community wise' is people mainly stick to their sections. Like the JJJ lot are all having a massive party in Bristol this weekend which John and Josie are actually going to[/jealous] but that's one thread in one section in a section in a section in another section on the forum. The place is huge.

Yup. The site was around before and will be around long after Big Brother. DSBB while the site's most popular section while the show's on air, is just a small part of a much larger site (posted on by everyone from lawyers, to ex-housemates to astronomers to Lord Alan Sugar).

[flamingGalah!]

The rules are quite strict but remember DS is an international media company who's site is read by millions including those in the industry and who could get sued for even the slightest sniff of libel or defamation (forum owners are legally responsible for what their users post). All of the additional rules that other sites don't have are made quite clear in the TOS guidlines though which you really should read before posting.

BUT... Mods let others get away with the same things that others are banned for... They also do not reply to any messages sent to query any bannings... They also allowed one member to make homophobic posts & refused to remove them or ban the member in question because they said it was their right as their religion was unaccepting of homosexuals, I was however banned when I said that their religion was disgusting ,as they also advocated the stoning to death of women who cheat on their husbands!!... It is a sh*t forum with sh*t Mods...

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

BUT... Mods let others get away with the same things that others are banned for... They also do not reply to any messages sent to query any bannings... They also allowed one member to make homophobic posts & refused to remove them or ban the member in question because they said it was their right as their religion was unaccepting of homosexuals, I was however banned when I said that their religion was disgusting ,as they also advocated the stoning to death of women who cheat on their husbands!!... It is a sh*t forum with sh*t Mods...

this

the mods are complete utter wankers http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/brodkavelarg.gif

[DigitalSid]

BUT... Mods let others get away with the same things that others are banned for...
They don't actually, some of the site's most respected members have been banned several times, there's no favourtism. It's probably just that DS's moderation team is so large that their judgments of what's acceptable and what's not vary.

They also do not reply to any messages sent to query any bannings...

Rightly, their decision is final and not up for discussion, it's their site. Complaining about it won't help your case.

They also allowed one member to make homophobic posts & refused to emove them or ban the member in question because they said it was their right as their religion was unaccepting of homosexuals, I was however banned when I said that their religion was disgusting ,as they also advocated the stoning to death of women who cheat on their husbands!!... It is a sh*t forum with sh*t Mods...

Again, DS is a very large website, owned by a large publishing company and read by millions, they're more likely to be sued than TIBB or the like are, there's no law against holding controversial religious views, there is a law against inciting religious hatred.

(Also being against / condeming of homosexuality, as *******ed up as it is, is not the same as being homophobic, i.e. having an intense and irrational hatred or fear of homosexuals)

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

DS is ****ing ****e!

/end of thread http://serve.mysmiley.net/fighting/fighting0028.gif

[Omah]

Phil Edgar Jones was planning to post hints and tidbits there (ignorning initial warnings about how brutal some there can be) throughout the last series but was hounded off by mid-way point and wrote a rather flouncy post in a strop, unable to handle it, for which he was also ridiculed.

The alleged "creative director", pej, as he styles himself is a conceited and incompetent fool who likes to voice his opinion but who cannot stand criticism - DS members like myself, who called him out for what he was, were suddely subject for DS "discipline", in my case a permanent ban on a techicality for something I did 5 years ago .....

..... not entirely surprising, since the independent DS was taken over on 9 April 2008 by international magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi*, a subsidiary of the Lagardère Group for a "significant" sum, so now the site is subject to the interventions of media "controllers", demanding "airtime" and "censorship"


* Hachette Filipacchi Media publishes 47 magazines, including Action Auto Moto, Elle France, Entrevue, France Dimanche, Ici Paris, Joystick, Le Journal de Mickey, Onze Mondial, Parents, Paris Match, Jeune & Jolie, Pariscope, Photo, Première, Télé 7 Jours, Top Famille Magazine and TV Hebdo. It also publishes dailies La Provence, Nice-Matin or Corse Presse. HFM also owns 25% of Éditions Philippe Amaury, which publishes Le Parisien, L'Equipe and other sport magazines.

[Patrick]

DS is ****ing ****e!

/end of thread http://serve.mysmiley.net/fighting/fighting0028.gif

:joker::joker:

That kind of sounded like you were throwing a bomb or something at them during a riot whilst yelling that, like:

'DS IS ******ING SH*TE!!!!'

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00127/Rioting_in_East_Bel_127597a.jpg

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

somebody should throw a bomb at them

[Patrick]

omg :joker:

[flamingGalah!]

They don't actually, some of the site's most respected members have been banned several times, there's no favourtism. It's probably just that DS's moderation team is so large that their judgments of what's acceptable and what's not vary.



Rightly, their decision is final and not up for discussion, it's their site. Complaining about it won't help your case.



Again, DS is a very large website, owned by a large publishing company and read by millions, they're more likely to be sued than TIBB or the like are, there's no law against holding controversial religious views, there is a law against inciting religious hatred.

(Also being against / condeming of homosexuality, as *******ed up as it is, is not the same as being homophobic, i.e. having an intense and irrational hatred or fear of homosexuals)

Well I have seen evidence that there is favouritism & that they turn a blind eye... And surely all Mods should know what is/isn't acceptable?? They are not doing their jobs properly if they themselves deem what is/isn't fit...

And why is it "rightly" that they will not correspond with queries?! When as you have admitted some Mods have different rules to others?! Ridiculous.

And saying a religion was barbaric & cruel for condoning the death of homosexuals & adulterous women is hardly inciting religious hatred is it! So again why should I have been banned for saying that??? :conf:

And some of the comments which were not removed were VERY homophobic, not simply someone saying it is against their religion, they just used that as an excuse for their views... So again that is bo**ocks...

You obviously love Digital Spy & think it is the dogs... I however strongly disagree & think it is an awful site run by w@nkers... :xyxwave:

[DigitalSid]

DS is ****ing ****e!

/end of thread http://serve.mysmiley.net/fighting/fighting0028.gif

It really isn't, it just has a demographic which is at odds with that of TIBB.

[flamingGalah!]

It really isn't, it just has a demographic which is at odds with that of TIBB.

It really is... :xyxwave:

[DigitalSid]

somebody should throw a bomb at them

How very mature.

[MTVN]

I tried to register with Digital Spy back in July and then they tried to charge me because I used a hotmail adress :bored:

So I looked for another BB forum and found this place, I'm glad I did now

[KG.]

I tried to sign up with DS, but I realised it was ****, so I came here.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

and everybody is like dusty minged old biddys over there too i swear there is nobody under 50

[Stacey.]

Yeah seriously I swear they're all OAP's

[DigitalSid]

The alleged "creative director", pej, as he styles himself is a conceited and incompetent fool who likes to voice his opinion but who cannot stand criticism - DS members like myself, who called him out for what he was, were suddely subject for DS "discipline", in my case a permanent ban on a techicality for something I did 5 years ago .....

Your not allowed to attack fellow members, that's one of the fundamental rules of most forums.

..... not entirely surprising, since the independent DS was taken over on 9 April 2008 by international magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi*, a subsidiary of the Lagardère Group for a "significant" sum, so now the site is subject to the interventions of media "controllers", demanding "airtime" and "censorship"


* Hachette Filipacchi Media publishes 47 magazines, including Action Auto Moto, Elle France, Entrevue, France Dimanche, Ici Paris, Joystick, Le Journal de Mickey, Onze Mondial, Parents, Paris Match, Jeune & Jolie, Pariscope, Photo, Première, Télé 7 Jours, Top Famille Magazine and TV Hebdo. It also publishes dailies La Provence, Nice-Matin or Corse Presse. HFM also owns 25% of Éditions Philippe Amaury, which publishes Le Parisien, L'Equipe and other sport magazines.

I did point that out myself.

[DigitalSid]

I tried to register with Digital Spy back in July and then they tried to charge me because I used a hotmail adress :bored:

So I looked for another BB forum and found this place, I'm glad I did now

Should have used your ISP provided address, it states when you register in bold text that the site doesn't allow sign ups from free anonymous e-mail addresses that render posters unaccountable.

[DigitalSid]

Yeah seriously I swear they're all OAP's

Teenagers :rolleyes::D

[DigitalSid]

and everybody is like dusty minged old biddys over there too i swear there is nobody under 50

The average age on DS is actually around 30, 25 in the entertainment sections, 40 in politics and GD (it's a big site).

(Not that 50 is at all old)

It seems older because it's usership is less MTV gen (being originally a serious broadcasting forum before showbiz tookover the homepage).

[MTVN]

Should have used your ISP provided address, it states when you register in bold text that the site doesn't allow sign ups from free anonymous e-mail addresses that render posters unaccountable.

Maybe but my hotmail is the only email account I've used and every other single site has accepted it. I never really read the conditions or the terms when I sign up for a site so I must have missed that :laugh:

[Beastie]

I just nosey on DS for news I want. (If they know anything about BB and that before us). I am only a member on TIBB and a Neighbours site. The Neighbours site I only post on it a few times because well in TIBB it's more relaxed and you can post about nearly anything!

DS does seem a bit stricter.

[Omah]

Your not allowed to attack fellow members, that's one of the fundamental rules of most forums.

I didn't "attack" him - I criticised his BB production decisions which had resulted in a disastrous year-on-year fall in viewing and voting figures ..... ;)

[DigitalSid]

You obviously love Digital Spy & think it is the dogs... I however strongly disagree & think it is an awful site run by w@nkers... :xyxwave:

I've criticised some aspects it myself here, I just have never had the problems that everyone else here seems to have, I've been banned a few times but only ever briefly (and always for good reason) and I've only ever had fallings out with members over differences in opinion, just as on any other forum and never seriously.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

DS can suck my balls

[Omah]

I did point that out myself.

When ?

:conf:

[DigitalSid]

I didn't "attack" him - I criticised his BB production decisions which had resulted in a disastrous year-on-year fall in viewing and voting figures ..... ;)

But those that I saw banned did.

[Beastie]

They really don't, on the very rare occasion I've seen this site so much as mentioned there, only one or two posters have expressed any opinion on it one way or the other (and then because of the criticisms I made above), fact is people are more likely to want to air their negative views than their positive and not everyone likes the same things.

And what is there to get excited about? Nothing's been confirmed yet. I think a lot of the difference in reaction to this between DS and here is down to age, the majority of people on TIBB have only been watching since series 6 or 7 or aren't old enough to remember enough of the early series to appreciate just how much the show changed (for the worse) over the years, the majority of people on DS (including myself) have been watching since the webcams first went live in July 2000 and have had to put up with seeing the show they've been watching for a decade have every last penny squeezed from it by £ndemol over the last 5 or 6 years then left to fade into oblivion, with age and experience comes weariness and skepticism.


I have watched BB since series 1. Anyway I do prefer TIBB. And also I appreciate the members in TIBB for being so enthusiastic and excited about a strong possibility for a return of BB. The producers of BB need to visit this site for Ideas too and not just bum DS. If they see now how lack of enthusiasm DS has for a possibility return of BB then they might decide not to go ahead with BB :( I hope the producers of BB are more open minded and visit other BB sites too. I do look on DS. Once I tried to sign up but it wouldn't let me and at the time you had to pay a fiver. Just think it's easier if I stay here then and pop on a Neighbours site now and again :hugesmile:

Everyone and anyone is welcome here. The more the merrier. Even DS members.

I hope for more members to come here who are "insiders" of BB too :) Please!

[DigitalSid]

When ?

:conf:

Here and in an earlier post:
http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4084813&postcount=26

[Omah]

But those that I saw banned did.

Presumably only fawning sycophants are left on DS, then ..... :(

[GypsyGoth]

DS can suck my balls

:laugh2:

:love:

[Omah]

Here and in an earlier post:
http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4084813&postcount=26

"owned by a large publishing company"

Ah, but not much detail there ..... ;)

[DigitalSid]

It's interesting to note that all those that put down the site here have some sort of grudge to bear (being banned, unable to register etcetera) you rarely hear in threads like these comments of that nature from never banned, currently active members (well, you get the odd comment on DS itself criticising the direction the ownership are taking the main site / some of the more extreme views of some members but rarely the forum as a whole and usually in dispair rather than out of hate).

[bettiepage]

y'all have problems. it's just another forum D:

[DigitalSid]

"owned by a large publishing company"

Ah, but not much detail there ..... ;)

My posting style is unwieldly enough as it is.

[Omah]

It's interesting to note that all those that put down the site here have some sort of grudge to bear (being banned, unable to register etcetera) you rarely hear in threads like these comments of that nature from never banned, currently active members (well, you get the odd comment on DS itself criticising the direction the ownership are taking the main site / some of the more extreme views of some members but rarely the forum as a whole and usually in dispair rather than out of hate).

Why would unbanned, active DS members come here ?

:conf:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

It's interesting to note that all those that put down the site here have some sort of grudge to bear (being banned, unable to register etcetera) you rarely hear in threads like these comments of that nature from never banned, currently active members (well, you get the odd comment on DS itself criticising the direction the ownership are taking the main site / some of the more extreme views of some members but rarely the forum as a whole and usually in dispair rather than out of hate).

i hated DS even before i was banned it was just so dull

i registered roughly the same time i registered here. my DS post count before i was banned which was a few months ago was 62

my tibb post count is nealy 9000

DS is wank

[DigitalSid]

Why would unbanned, active DS come here ?

:conf:

Why not? I'm a member of several different fansites dedicated to the same cult shows. With different demographics and a different set of members, you can get a perspective on one you wouldn't on the other and vice versa and in the case of a show with as dedicated a following as BB it's useful to have a back up forum when the other goes down during live shows.

[DigitalSid]

i hated DS even before i was banned it was just so dull

i registered roughly the same time i registered here. my DS post count before i was banned which was a few months ago was 62

my tibb post count is nealy 9000

DS is wank

What about it was dull and in forum terms how do you define dull?

[Beastie]

It's interesting to note that all those that put down the site here have some sort of grudge to bear (being banned, unable to register etcetera) you rarely hear in threads like these comments of that nature from never banned, currently active members (well, you get the odd comment on DS itself criticising the direction the ownership are taking the main site / some of the more extreme views of some members but rarely the forum as a whole and usually in dispair rather than out of hate).

I don't have a grudge against it all. I am on TIBB quite a lot. If I was a member of DS it would take up my life I bet :hugesmile: I like to nosey on DS. To be honest I havn't noseyed all the way through it yet because it's so massive!! I would love to see more mature members from DS to come here. However at the same time some DS members can complain a lot and be bitter. Suppose some TIBB members can be like this too.

[Omah]

Why not? I'm a member of several different fansites dedicated to the same cult shows. With different demographics and a different set of members, you can get a perspective on one you wouldn't on the other and vice versa.

That may apply to you, but not the thousands of other unbanned, active DS members - they prefer the safety of their AT's ..... :yuk:

[flamingGalah!]

I used to mostly frequent the soaps forum on DS & believe me that place is RUN by 12 year old girls who are EastEnders fans...

If anyones dares to EVER say anything remotely negative about EastEnders, all of a sudden hundreds of pre-pubescents launch at you & they then trawl back through your posting history & find a post that goes against one of their 8456 rules & you are promptly given a ban... That happened all the time... Sad.

[DigitalSid]

I don't have a grudge against it all. I am on TIBB quite a lot. If I was a member of DS it would take up my life I bet :hugesmile: I like to nosey on DS. To be honest I havn't noseyed all the way through it yet because it's so massive!! I would love to see more mature members from DS to come here. However at the same time some DS members can complain a lot and be bitter. Suppose some TIBB members can be like this too.

We just complain over different things.

On TIBB, negativity about the show makes you unpopular.

On DS, txt speak and the like makes you unpopular.

[flamingGalah!]

It's interesting to note that all those that put down the site here have some sort of grudge to bear (being banned, unable to register etcetera) you rarely hear in threads like these comments of that nature from never banned, currently active members (well, you get the odd comment on DS itself criticising the direction the ownership are taking the main site / some of the more extreme views of some members but rarely the forum as a whole and usually in dispair rather than out of hate).

It's interesting that you appear to almost be a PR person for Digital Spy, yet feel the need to be on here too... ;)

I don't hold a grudge, I just gave up creating new accounts because the place was a joke...

[Omah]

I used to mostly frequent the soaps forum on DS & believe me that place is RUN by 12 year old girls who are EastEnders fans...

If anyones dares to EVER say anything remotely negative about EastEnders, all of a sudden hundreds of pre-pubescents launch at you & they then trawl back through your posting history & find a post that goes against one of their 8456 rules & you are promptly given a ban... That happened all the time... Sad.

Yeah, that's the truth ..... :wavey:

I got temporary bans for criticising forum favourites like Chanelle - I was "mobbed" by pre-pubescents ..... :eek:

[Beastie]

We just complain over different things.

On TIBB, negativity about the show makes you unpopular.

On DS, txt speak and the like makes you unpopular.

Same here. There are always members correcting other members grammar and pronunciation. "You have been educated".

I think a lot of TIBB members are just as intelligent as DS members. It's just more open and lenient here.

[DigitalSid]

I used to mostly frequent the soaps forum on DS & believe me that place is RUN by 12 year old girls who are EastEnders fans...

If anyones dares to EVER say anything remotely negative about EastEnders, all of a sudden hundreds of pre-pubescents launch at you & they then trawl back through your posting history & find a post that goes against one of their 8456 rules & you are promptly given a ban... That happened all the time... Sad.

The soaps forum along with the showbiz forum can be awful, but the inhabitants of those two forums are not the same people that inhabit the cult, politics or the advice sections, they're not even the same people who inhabit eachother's sections, this is what I mean about DS being a bit cliquey at times, people who inhabit a certain section more than others will be closer to those members than they will be to the members of another section and different sections can sometimes put eachother down. It's such a massive site, that unless you belong to a clique or have been around a long time, your gonna sometimes feel like it's them vs you when you piss people off.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

stop defending DS :bored:

no1curr :bored:

[DigitalSid]

Same here. There are always members correcting other members grammar and pronunciation. "You have been educated".
Trust me, not with nearly as pedantically as on DS, the grammar / liberal sprinkling of profanity in 80% of the posts in this thread and 90% of posts in some others would earn you a shunning on DS. Use a single slang term in a thread opening post and the whole thread will end up centring around the fact that you did so. A typo can see you ridiculed in some sections.

I think a lot of TIBB members are just as intelligent as DS members. It's just more open and lenient here.
Didn't say they weren't (though with a membership that as I said made up of everyone from lawyers, to amateur astronomers, I would say DS has the edge over most forums in that respect, probably why it can come accross so uptight and pedantic when compared to the mostly college-age TIBB). As to TIBB being more leniant, again, this site is tiny in comparison to the DSBB let alone DS as a whole, and DS is run by a private company rather than an individual and some volunteers. The pressure on DS to be strict in the appliances of the site's terms is greater than the pressure on TIBB.

[DigitalSid]

stop defending DS :bored:

I'm not, I'm having a reasoned and democratic discussion/debate (the purpose of an open forum forum).

It's all too easy on a site, obviously and undestandably biased toward one side of the argument to just spend the thread venting. A reasoned and fair debate in which both points of view are aired is much more preferrable.

[DigitalSid]

That may apply to you, but not the thousands of other unbanned, active DS members - they prefer the safety of their AT's ..... :yuk:

Does TIBB not have appreciation threads?

[Omah]

Does TIBB not have appreciation threads?

NAFAIK ..... :puzzled:

[DigitalSid]

It's interesting that you appear to almost be a PR person for Digital Spy,
How many PR people openly and publically criticise the company they handle relations for?

yet feel the need to be on here too... ;)
I don't actually, I post on DS (or more specifically DSBB) far more than I do on here (few hundred posts a week sometimes as an insomniac), especially when the show is on. Except when there's something big to discuss such as the new C5 rumours, I'm only an occasional visitor here. I read here for the same reason I used to read on DS when I was a member of C4's forums, because I can.

I don't hold a grudge, I just gave up creating new accounts because the place was a joke...

You could have just followed the fair enough rules?

[DigitalSid]

NAFAIK ..... :puzzled:

I'm pretty sure it does, maybe not in a separate section or with separate rules (well actually the no negativity rule on DS in regards to appreciation thread is just an expansion of the keep posts relevant to the discussion rule, put downs and criticism in an appreciation thread, a thread intended for appreciative discussion of someone or something, are irrelevant and off topic) but I'm pretty sure I remember there being some during the summer.

[DigitalSid]

Yeah, that's the truth ..... :wavey:

I got temporary bans for criticising forum favourites like Chanelle - I was "mobbed" by pre-pubescents ..... :eek:

Define criticising? DS's rule on housemate criticism is that it must be relevant to the show and based on their behaviour and reaction to events in the house (i.e. not personal.)

[Omah]

I'm pretty sure it does, maybe not in a separate section or with separate rules (well actually the no negativity rule on DS in regards to appreciation thread is just an expansion of the keep posts relevant to the discussion rule, put downs and criticism in an appreciation thread, a thread intended for appreciative discussion of someone or something, are irrelevant and off topic) but I'm pretty sure I remember there being some during the summer.

No ATs then ..... :joker:

[DigitalSid]

No ATs then ..... :joker:

A quick search suggests otherwise.

(Separate section = a dedicated sub-forum not a thread)

[Omah]

Define criticising? DS's rule on housemate criticism is that it must be relevant to the show and based on their behaviour and reaction to events in the house (i.e. not personal.)

DS changed the rules, just like BB, when it let pej use the forum as a personal vehicle promote himself but "disallowed" anything but praise for his production "achievements" - IIRC, pej was only ever a "housemate" during the last CBB ..... ;)

[DigitalSid]

DS changed the rules, just like BB, when it let pej use the forum as a personal vehicle promote himself but "disallowed" anything but praise for his production "achievements" - IIRC, pej was only ever a "housemate" during the last CBB ..... ;)

The rule while formulated for discussion of bb hms relates to anyone public.

[Omah]

A quick search suggests otherwise.

(Separate section = a dedicated sub-forum not a thread)

Please clarify .... :conf:

[Omah]

The rule while formulated for discussion of bb hms relates to anyone public.

No, it doesn't (or didn't) ..... "you are of course welcome to disagree with other members" *

* Community Guidelines - The Rules

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk

[Niall]

DS rejected my sign up request anyway. I think its really snooty that they 'require' you to have a ISP e-mail address. I didn't even use a mainstream e-mail I account. I just think that particular rule is so stupid. :bored:

[Black Dagger]

Oooh will I fit in here now being a big Digital Spy'er...

We were just not getting our hopes up over there... incase the answer is still a no which seems like it could be the case these days...

[cub]

I have a lifetime ban on DS. I did a terrible crime.

[Omah]

I have a lifetime ban on DS. I did a terrible crime.

Do tell ..... :evilgrin:

[Niamh.]

I attempted to join DS once when TiBB crashed (on an eviction night of all times!!) but they wanted me to pay cos my email address wasn't good enough or something so I didn't.

[DigitalSid]

DS rejected my sign up request anyway. I think its really snooty that they 'require' you to have a ISP e-mail address. I didn't even use a mainstream e-mail I account. I just think that particular rule is so stupid. :bored:

EVERYONE has an ISP e-mail address. Most ISPs provide you with 10.

[Niamh.]

EVERYONE has an ISP e-mail address. Most ISPs provide you with 10.

is that from your internet provider?

[Niall]

EVERYONE has an ISP e-mail address. Most ISPs provide you with 10.

Yeah but why should I have to go out of my way to phone up Virgin Media for a poxy e-mail address? Why isn't Hotmail or Gmail good enough? :bored:

[DigitalSid]

Yeah but why should I have to go out of my way to phone up Virgin Media for a poxy e-mail address?
You don't need to. Use the one your router uses to connect. Every ISP assigns you one automatically when you join them :rolleyes:.
Why isn't Hotmail or Gmail good enough? :bored:
Because 1. they allow people to post anonymously without being accountable for their posts and account 2. they allow banned members to just sign up again. 3. spammers use them.

[DigitalSid]

is that from your internet provider?

Yes, your ISP, internet service provider.

(Why couldn't the internet have stayed the preserve of the remotely tech savvy?)

[Niall]

You don't need to. Use the one your router uses to connect. Every ISP assigns you one automatically when you join them :rolleyes:.

Because 1. they allow people to post anonymously without being accountable for their posts and account 2. they allow banned members to just sign up again. 3. spammers use them.

Ok I don't actually have an ISP e-mail address. My Dad does because he's the bill payer but I don't. Besides I didn't even use a mainstream account when I signed up before. I just think its silly to have rules like that. The mods used to and still manage on here when spam bot or a multiple account appears. :/

[arista]

No A battle Royal


Patrick Vs a Yank lover on there Site

For Example.


Thread on both sites.

[Niamh.]

Yes, your ISP, internet service provider.

(Why couldn't the internet have stayed the preserve of the remotely tech savvy?)

No need to be snotty:nono:

[DigitalSid]

No need to be snotty:nono:

It's the most basic of knowledge though and a completely invalid complaint about the site.

[DigitalSid]

No A battle Royal


Patrick Vs a Yank lover on there Site

For Example.


Thread on both sites.

Eh?

[DigitalSid]

Ok I don't actually have an ISP e-mail address. My Dad does because he's the bill payer but I don't. Besides I didn't even use a mainstream account when I signed up before. I just think its silly to have rules like that. The mods used to and still manage on here when spam bot or a multiple account appears. :/

Get him to create you one, all he's got to do is login to your ISP's website with his to do so.

And again, this is a relatively small forum, DS is the world's fourth largest, completely different kettle of fish moderation wise.

[Niamh.]

It's the most basic of knowledge though and a completely invalid complaint about the site.

well I've never needed to know it before and I've been using computers perfectly fine without that knowledge for years.http://www.emoticonzone.com/msn-emotions/angry/hmph.gif (http://www.emoticonzone.com)

[dizzy bint]

Why would unbanned, active DS members come here ?

:conf:

Why not? Are the two mutually exclusive?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

DigitalSid needs to be hung for treason

[Niall]

DigitalSid needs to be hung for treason

:laugh2:

[DigitalSid]

DigitalSid needs to be hung for treason

Heheh
(by DS, as I've been a member there longer)

[flamingGalah!]

How many PR people openly and publically criticise the company they handle relations for?


I don't actually, I post on DS (or more specifically DSBB) far more than I do on here (few hundred posts a week sometimes as an insomniac), especially when the show is on. Except when there's something big to discuss such as the new C5 rumours, I'm only an occasional visitor here. I read here for the same reason I used to read on DS when I was a member of C4's forums, because I can.



You could have just followed the fair enough rules?

You are hardly criticising DS though?! You seem to be defending them & sticking up for them despite their very obvious flaws...

I did follow the many many rules, but as you admitted yourself the Mods interpret these rules very differently, so something which may not actually break any rule can get you a ban from an over zealous Mod (which happened to me) then they refuse to open into any questioning of the reasons for the ban, which is what pi**ed me off with them... I had not recived any sort of ban for several months, then someone took offence to an extremely light hearted & jokey comment (which honestly was something as mundane as saying they were only saying such a thing because they fancied a particular person) & they saw that it possibly could break break rule number 7563 & hit the report button, I was then given a permanant ban! *******ing ridiculous.

I could easily sign up with an new account, but chose not to because the place is pathetic...

[seanraff07]

Last summer i decided i wanted to join a BB forum so i tried there first but like many others, they wouldn't accept my email address so i found here after... so glad i did aswell.:love:

Wouldn't mind joining DS to try it out but it seems like too much hassle than it's worth and i'm very happy here.

[Omah]

Why not? Are the two mutually exclusive?

The question was :

Why would unbanned, active DS members come here ?

:conf:

[dizzy bint]

The question was :



:conf:

The two boards have a quite different feel to them. You get a different perspective on this one.

[Omah]

The two boards have a quite different feel to them. You get a different perspective on this one.

I agree ..... ;)

But unbanned, active DS members are not flooding over here in droves while the DS site is currently down for maintenance are they ?

:conf:

[Black Dagger]

Why would unbanned, active DS members come here ?

:conf:

Meh I am a majorly active member of DS, Just with them not being all into that forum at the minute apart from Digital Brother, I decided to look for some news and a nice decent forum and that is what I found here.

[Omah]

Meh I am a majorly active member of DS, Just with them not being all into that forum at the minute apart from Digital Brother, I decided to look for some news and a nice decent forum and that is what I found here.

Just the one of you ?

:conf:

[dizzy bint]

I agree ..... ;)

But unbanned, active DS members are not flooding over here in droves while the DS site is currently down for maintenance are they ?

:conf:

Not me, I come here periodically in any event, although I will admit I don't post much.

[Black Dagger]

Just the one of you ?

:conf:

I only joined up about 22 hours ago, so don't know if any other DS'ers bar me, Vodka Drinka and Digital Sid are on here.

[Omah]

I only joined up about 22 hours ago, so don't know if any other DS'ers bar me, Vodka Drinka and Digital Sid are on here.

I was a member of DS from 2004-2010 ..... ;)