Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

I expect moderators on most forums have the ability to edit posts if needs be.

I recall over on dcfcfans when B4 who had learning difficulties used the term Coloured to refer to someone. I flagged it with a moderator who amended it.

Of course it could be altered by the poster but there is a time limit to do so. Editing a post rather than deleting can sometimes be better as the rest of the post may be valid.

Of course a post wouldn't be deleted for a typo, provided said typo doesn't make it inappropriate.

However I don't personally have a problem if I make a glaringly obvious typo and it's corrected by a moderator.

Clearly if the moderator altered the post to make what had been written look bad then that's different, but I guess that's where trust in those moderating comes in. While i might disagree with AF on some things I think he's not going to alter a post inappropriately. IMO.

We’ll have to agree to differ on many aspects of that Sith.

We used to - before your time I think - have a poster on here called Mista. Bright man, ran his own company I believe and made more sense than many as regards both politics and football, but his written literacy skills were quite poor. I doubt if any moderator would have had the time to correct all his mistakes and it is very questionable that they would have been able to do so without changing his meaning, but he still got his point across.

To me it’s the thin end of the wedge when any moderator starts ‘correcting’. Their job is, imo, to ensure the rules of the forum are adhered to, that the forum works and that no libel laws are broken…nothing more. Be interesting to hear what ex mods like Bloomer or Ramondo have to say if they’re reading.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I remember the Rat and Chris regularly editting posts back in the day much to my annoyance.

But they did edit a spelling error in a post of mine about having a wife who was a nagger which seemed justified

[Andy_Faber]

I expect moderators on most forums have the ability to edit posts if needs be.

I recall over on dcfcfans when B4 who had learning difficulties used the term Coloured to refer to someone. I flagged it with a moderator who amended it.

Of course it could be altered by the poster but there is a time limit to do so. Editing a post rather than deleting can sometimes be better as the rest of the post may be valid.

Of course a post wouldn't be deleted for a typo, provided said typo doesn't make it inappropriate.

However I don't personally have a problem if I make a glaringly obvious typo and it's corrected by a moderator.

Clearly if the moderator altered the post to make what had been written look bad then that's different, but I guess that's where trust in those moderating comes in. While i might disagree with AF on some things I think he's not going to alter a post inappropriately. IMO.

Of course I wouldn?t Sith. Thanks for your trust

[Andy_Faber]

If a Moderator thinks a post should be edited or deleted, IMO, (and it's what I did when being Admin/Mod on a couple of sites) they should message the poster, explaining why they believe it should be amended, for instance, the post opens both the poster and the site to possible lawsuits for the content. If the poster refuses to delete/edit, the Mod should then take the necessary action.

Apparently PMs are not currently working so that's not an option but AF could easily post "please amend/delete because....." in a reply to the offending post.

I probably would do so in most circumstances and have pmd folk in the past, usually when the common error of writing could/ should/ would instead of their opposites makes a point being made totally contrary. In the case of your Chris/Charlie thing you weren?t apparently around and I anticipated it being the start of a deluge of posts. I?ll make best endeavours to let you know next time.

[Trickytreesreds]

I didn't say they made asylum easier, they have, reduced significantly the backlog of claims, reduced the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, put in place a returns agreement pilot with France.


Reduced the backlog- translation rubber stamped approvals to get rid
Reduced the number of hotels- translation, moved them into the HMO’s and put the burden on councils
Returns agreement with France - translation, we swap one of ours, for one of yours even though it does nothing to reduce the total, in fact probably increases it. They will be fast tracked and multiple dependents following very soon, for the gravy train.
The reality is a few dozen deals a year, whilst hundreds cross every day.

All sounds like. Bull**** and a massive gas lighting fail to me.

[Trickytreesreds]

Yep. Folks have had enough of these tossers

https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-far...jects-13438143

[swaledale]

I am certainly impressed with claimed 150,000, joining a march organised by convicted criminals and known fascists, many of whom apparently joined for other reasons than the march was widely and clearly publicised for (I mean that's what one does isn't it? Join a march for say the abolition of the monarchy but claim that actually they marched for other unconnected reasons!) but not perhaps as impressive as the 1 million plus who marched against the Iraq war.

Though of course its highly possible that many of those didn't join the march for that reason but simply fancied marching through London, or made up their own reasons rather than appear to be anti war!

[SithHappens]

Royal Parks and RSPCA have rejected Farages claims about swan eating.

https://news.sky.com/story/royal-par...he-uk-13437205

Andy, as you are looking closely at peoples posts I'll leave it for you to decide if accusing another poster of gas lighting is appropriate.

Who I'm supposed to be gas lighting i have no idea.

[Andy_Faber]

Royal Parks and RSPCA have rejected Farages claims about swan eating.

https://news.sky.com/story/royal-par...he-uk-13437205

Andy, as you are looking closely at peoples posts I'll leave it for you to decide if accusing another poster of gas lighting is appropriate.

Who I'm supposed to be gas lighting i have no idea.

I?ve checked ?gaslighting? before and it doesn?t break any boundaries in this context. We?ve had worse

[ramAnag]

Royal Parks and RSPCA have rejected Farages claims about swan eating.

https://news.sky.com/story/royal-par...he-uk-13437205

Andy, as you are looking closely at peoples posts I'll leave it for you to decide if accusing another poster of gas lighting is appropriate.

Who I'm supposed to be gas lighting i have no idea.

Tbf again to Tricky - what twice in one day (!) - I think he’s suggesting you’re the victim rather than the perpetrator of ‘gas lighting’, Sith.

You’re neither of course, although the idea that Eastern European immigrants have been catching and eating carp and swans from our parks goes back at least thirty years and there is, or at least was, some small degree of truth in it.

Mind you, where I live, people shoot pheasants for fun. I couldn’t care less if someone shoots the occasional one or two for food, or even supplies the local butcher with Christmas ‘game’, but one bloke shot over a hundred in one afternoon just for ‘sport’. Course virtually all such shooters are wealthy, British and white…so we can’t compare it.