In all seriousness there are people posting daily who would be permanently banned from any other forum I've ever been a member of. I'm not "judging" per se, I actually like that this forum gives "second chances", but when people are only getting a few days or a week long ban for aggression and violent threats and then coming back and continuing to do the exact same thing, on repeat, it gets a bit daft doesn't it. A threat of violence should be a one month ban right off the bat, a 6 month ban for a repeat offence, and a **** off permanently for a 3rd. The way it's played down on here is madness.

:joker:oh gosh, that's something I easily achieve.:joker:

What a bloody STUPID idea

Like Slim said earlier nearly all the members would be banned more often than not.

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We would also need an upper limit incase Vicky tries to make another 30,000 word post.

Its not up to members to be calling others out, that's why the report system exists.

I seem to be missing where all these repeat instances of aggressive and violent threats are happening?

Ban lengths are completely down to a members previous infraction and ban history unless its an extreme rule break then we do it manually.

I was wondering about that as well...

Nobody has sent me msgs...

Ok, cool, but unless you're going to read through every discussion in every thread to read the same poster doing the same crap, he'll carry on doing the only thing he does.

It's your forum, your rules. We'll shut up and post.

I think it’s a difficult one, I kinda think ‘a peaceful’ forum isn’t achievable, trolling is always gonna happen, when people (and it isn’t exclusive to one side either) are saying things to get a rise from each other, it starts a domino effect.

There are plenty of posts that are posted on here (the majority of them being removed) that are offensive, but I truly believe the majority are to cause a rift rather than genuinely believing what they post, there’s a huge difference between a genuine transphobic/racist/homophobic/sexist arsehole and someone who has different opinions on a forum, but unfortunately when you are portraying the first one, that is how you are judged (and as I said, this definitely isn’t one sided at all, I’ve said **** I shouldn’t have said, but you live and learn) and eventually comes a time when people can’t be bothered with said forum and dealing with it.

I’ve criticised the admin team a few times, but reevaluating the situation, it is difficult finding a balance, cos bans being handed out on either side of the forum is gonna cause ****, so there really is no right way of dealing with it where everyone is happy, and there’s never gonna be.

Others have found places where they can go and discuss the stuff they want to discuss with the people they want to discuss it with and feel more comfortable around, and that’s great.

(And I fully believe this post is just waffle and will make no sense, but I did have a point... I think?)

get arista to fund a new series of Big Brother so we have something to talk about other than each other?

I've never had violent threats but I'm aware of someone who has.

No just waffle

It to be held in Michael’s manshun?

Good post.

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Each to their own I guess.

Use the ignore function

You shouldn't ignore threats of violence....unless they are made in pantomime fashion..

Yeah .. the block function works great


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I'm going to do exactly what Josy has told me to do.

I detest the ignore function. I don't put anyone on ignore even assholes.

In a Katie Hopkins thread, she would receive as much negative criticism as Meghan, but her threads don't go on for days and days. Why is that?

Work that one out and you might get closer to the root cause.

i think everyone should view posts while drinking a cup of herbal tea