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02-06-2020, 06:33 PM | #1 | |||
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All of my posts made within the past 3 days on this site have been nothing but support for BLM. Despite this, most of mine (& others) posts have been deleted and many of us have been banned. This is despicable and the people responsible really need to sort their priorities as they are part of the problem. One of my posts got deleted earlier literally for saying that racism and police brutality exist in the UK. They do, and these conversations need to be had.
This post & thread will most likely be removed quicker than it took me to type this with absolutely no care, which will just prove that the people running this site are against the BLM movement. And for what? Next time you wonder why your forum is so dry or why no one is contributing, know it's your fault. For silencing the members of your forum who don't have the same outdated opinions that you do and letting it get overrun by trolls, who you let stick around because they bring activity. It's pathetic. How dare you say that us speaking about a topic we are passionate about is only to try and bait others, when actual trolls are on the site and nothing is ever done about them? How dare you say that one post of 'black lives matter' is spamming and posting lies (?!) which leads to a ban? How dare you say that saying 'black lives matter' is an offsite discussion (which it isn't at all), when people are posting literal screenshots of their offsite chats all the time and nothing is ever done? Why is it different now? Please sign petitions, share and donate and do whatever you can to help. If you click the first gif in my sig it will take you to a great site with many ways to help out if you're unsure how that is frequently updated. The second gif will take you to a YT video created for the sole purpose of helping people donate even if they don't have money as all money made from ads will go straight towards donations. And there is so much more you can do. It's not enough to be silently non racist. We need to vocally be anti racism. Black Lives Matter.
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02-06-2020, 06:44 PM | #2 | |||
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This is just silly. You've made a provocative post here with wrong accusations against us, with the intention of it being removed, so that would apparently prove your point.
We're not removing any posts because it supports the cause. Posts get removed for all the usual reasons that posts get removed and people banned. The things that cause forums to be not very pleasant and useful places to be. Case in point, I just checked this and I deleted that post because it quoted a post which got deleted. That happens regularly. |
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02-06-2020, 06:47 PM | #3 | |||
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02-06-2020, 07:05 PM | #4 | |||
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I apologise. |
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02-06-2020, 07:07 PM | #5 | |||
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Thank you.
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02-06-2020, 06:49 PM | #6 | ||
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This site has become a cherry picking forum.
Unless insults are being directed at members threads and posts should stay up. |
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02-06-2020, 07:00 PM | #7 | |||
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I agree with James' reasoning here. It is a forum at the end of the day and spamming has always been frowned upon on here regardless of the message. I'm sure if everyone spammed "I love James and Josy" they would still delete it.
It's a small forum with about 20 posters, so folks need to be realistic. I don't think anyone would put me in the box opposing BLM or their message. There are things people can actually do to help irl if they feel that passionately, but spamming the message for 20 people to read isn't it. Where I do think there is an issue, is trolling in S&D used to be frowned upon, obviously not a bit here and there, but if posters aren't posting anything of use and are writing stuff only to wind people up or to be contrarian (in every thread), then maybe that is something admin do need to examine.
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02-06-2020, 07:31 PM | #8 | |||
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02-06-2020, 07:35 PM | #9 | |||
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02-06-2020, 06:58 PM | #10 | ||
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Josy the only time you come on the forum is to threaten members with bans.
And have a power trip. |
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02-06-2020, 07:00 PM | #11 | |||
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02-06-2020, 06:59 PM | #12 | |||
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I don’t normally like getting involved in things like this, but James literally threatened to delete everything about BLM last night if people kept questioning him, that’s not exactly the best way to respond to people who are passionate about it
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02-06-2020, 07:04 PM | #13 | |||
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I was just typing something similar but you put it better than me. I get there has to be moderation but yesterday was uncomfortable viewing.
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02-06-2020, 07:04 PM | #15 | |||
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Argh. I checked again and I deleted your post by mistake. The previous post to your one was the one only that should have been deleted as it was rule breaking, but for some reason I deleted both. It was an honest mistake.
I apologise. |
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02-06-2020, 07:16 PM | #17 | ||
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The merging of threads relating to separate incidents of racial police brutality was quite tone deaf and unneeded especially given that there's not exactly a gamut of active topics every day and you could still see topics like the corona topic and such.
As for everything else, I don't know the context so I can't judge. |
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02-06-2020, 07:21 PM | #18 | |||
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The spamming and everything was a bad reaction to a bad attitude surrounding a decision made about a subject people are understandably passionate about, personally for me holding that subject over people so they fall in line was as Dezzy said, tone deaf.
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02-06-2020, 08:14 PM | #19 | |||
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I've avoided posting here last couple of days tbh because the place was getting pretty toxic over the weekend. There is no problem with discussing and supporting the BLM movement and that has been happening a lot on this site over the last week and today. The problems arose when there was constant insulting of other members taking place without instigation and when it became conflated with abusive posts about the way the site is run. Its not really a surprise that then led to drama from off site being brought on here and descending into threads insulting people's appearances etc
I understand the upset over threads being merged but there were nearly forty threads made within the space of a couple of hours, I'm not sure how much good that is doing to engage people |
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02-06-2020, 08:18 PM | #20 | |||
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I too would have merged those threads then tbh |
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02-06-2020, 08:22 PM | #21 | |||
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were they clogging your forum about a cancelled reality tv show with the names awf people hew have innocently died?
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02-06-2020, 08:24 PM | #22 | ||
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02-06-2020, 08:23 PM | #23 | |||
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It's not a bad thing to highlight the different cases. And when asked why they were merged, to be met basically with the response of 'well there's other issues to discuss such as corona' is so insensitive and problematic.
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02-06-2020, 07:19 PM | #24 | |||
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02-06-2020, 07:20 PM | #25 | |||
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Just to further explain the spamming explanation in my last post...
Moniqua spammed 34 times (that was before it descended into insults) in a thread that was nothing at all to do with BLM |
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