LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2022

ADMIN NOTE - THIS APPLIES TO EVERYONE.

Following a report, the admin team have discussed things at length - whilst we have no desire to quash discussion and we feel it important that people should be allowed to speak freely and give their opinion, please be careful and write with sensitivity when we are referring to someone's race/culture/origins.

There is no problem to say that you feel someone taking such a position should be pro-UK and preferably born and bred in the UK, but there is nothing to be gained from referencing their country of origin or race.

 

Irrelevant, and to be honest not really right to call anyone a weirdo. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, everyone is entitled to disagree or even be offended by others opinions and I will defend to death everyone's right to be able to voice their opinions as long as it is done so within the law and applicable rules.

Rule 10:
10. NO FLAMING OR AD HOMINEM ATTACKS:: No member is allowed to make personal attacks on any other member or of the Admin Team. Criticise ideas, not people. Personal attacks are defined as Personal, Racial, Ethnic, and/or Gender based insults, slurs, or derisive comments. This includes spite reporting or other similar forms of harassment via private messages or anything similar.

The Admin team chose to take a lenient approach to this, not least because @noisette47 is a long standing, valued member, but also because we do genuinely believe that there is validity in discussing concerns of this nature; indeed, I personally hold the view that there has been insufficient discussion around certain issues (such as those arriving by dinghy, or even child sexual exploitation in Rotherham) purely because people were scared of being called racist; I believe that it is important that we are able to hold our own beliefs and even voice them, to a point... but, I do not own this site, I merely volunteer along with the others to keep it ticking over and uphold the rules.

The alternative to the path we have chosen is a simple, but blunt one that would guarantee discussions of this nature stifled - it starts with a delete button and goes from there.

I urge everyone to please heed the above warning and respect the decision we have made as I can assure you it was made with leniency and fairness firm and centre. Let's not explore those alternative actions.

 

OK, I am going to give my final answer on this - my next move is to lock the thread and delete all offending posts.

Go and read the rules please, refer specifically to rule 10 and rule 15.

The rules of the site are there to be respected and upheld. Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head to use the forum, but those that wish to do so must abide by the rules.

 

Please show a little respect Nick. We often find ourselves put to make hard decisions on interpreting rules of the forum and maintaining balance as best we can.
Plenty of members create reports; they are your fellow members and they do so out of concern for the forum and maintaining standards.
We have 5 admins and thousands of members so frankly we appreciate the help. Calling them weirdos because they express concerns is poor form.

 

Admirable @pete, but often times that can lead to conflict, albeit unintended.

 

When I was a lad... we used to get a clump round the ear if we pointed at someone close by. Nowadays pointing is allowed but clumping a kid round the ear isn't! How times have changed

Famous quote by Shiney - "It never did me any harm but I do have one ear bigger than the other"