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do you feel that members who always give insults abuse should be taken off for number of days

maybe an idea but what is an insult  sometimes theres a bit of craic here

i agree but also alot of abuse read some of threads  you can banter but its not all banteris it

know what u mean mate have got it here once or twice meself lol

it tends to ruin a good discussion bringing it to an end and theres no need for it just because youer hideing behind screen??

yes but chris pll have different reasons for not putting there real name up here dont mean to big headed but the last two year im winning more than my fair share and u are not the most popular person when u do so i use a false name so i can come on here and have a chat or what ever with out anyone knowing who i am as u would not belive the sh** i have to put up with

yes i know i like the truth look at the s i get

Most of it is just banter and enjoyable,and when anyone does resort to being insulting,it reflects badly on themselves,after all its mostly adults posting,and we are capable of  drawing our own conclusions,and making our own minds up about things.

Merlin, a voice of realism

i think its up to the injured party to report it and if its deemed by a mod and or admin to be insulting then it should be removed along with the author for a set period if the author offends again in a set time then suspension is doubled  j.m.h.o..........pete

am sure its all in good fun .but you have to draw the line somewhere .or theres the other way if you cant stand the heat get out of the fire  

Quoted from Taylorsloft

am sure its all in good fun .but you have to draw the line somewhere .or theres the other way if you cant stand the heat get out of the fire  

That is the biggest problem, WHO draws the line or WHERE does the line get drawn, only way is zero tolerance, that has been tried before but as in reality it never will work on an open forum.
If the forum is a true cross membership of pigeon fanciers then you will get a true cross posting of views like you would in any forum, pub, club, workplace or gathering, the trouble with the internet is it is not a natural tool of interaction. As soon as you meet someone in person you get an idea of how they will react, you will never get that on a computer screen.
The difference is some has a delete button and a lot of things that in person would be dealt with or shelved,
Me personally love the banter, I can look someone in the eye and tell them the truth as I see it also look them straight in the eye and tell them they're a lying git as I see it
I know that there are members on here that cannot deal with banter and would like to see it banned and members that cannot deal with the truth and would to or love having control of the delete button

Agree with you Dovey, its life but there is no need for anybody to swear, or get personaly abusive as has happened in the last couple of days.
There are junior members and women who use this forum!

Phil

Quoted from pjc

Agree with you Dovey, its life but there is no need for anybody to swear, or get personaly abusive as has happened in the last couple of days.
There are junior members and women who use this forum!

Phil

i agree, last night [to be fair very late last night] it was bang out of order,it was not banter it was abuse,to me there is a vast difference between winding people up, and what was going on in one of the posts,i think it was the one about losses,[might have been taken off by now]it was plain nasty and reflects very badly on us if the "norms" look in on the site

Quoted from chrisss

i agree, last night [to be fair very late last night] it was bang out of order,it was not banter it was abuse,to me there is a vast difference between winding people up, and what was going on in one of the posts,i think it was the one about losses,[might have been taken off by now]it was plain nasty and reflects very badly on us if the "norms" look in on the site

I missed the post you are referring to, if we had to stop posting incase it upset the "norms" then you would be better turning it into a PR machine for Pigeons and those and such.
Could you imagine a football forum where you couldn't criticise or banter, but I must say there is a zero tolerance on swearing on the one I listen to, Ewan and Ruffy, Real football phone in 101fm

Quoted from DOVEScot

I missed the post you are referring to, if we had to stop posting incase it upset the "norms" then you would be better turning it into a PR machine for Pigeons and those and such.
Could you imagine a football forum where you couldn't criticise or banter, but I must say there is a zero tolerance on swearing on the one I listen to, Ewan and Ruffy, Real football phone in 101fm

some of the posts i refer to have now been "lost" the pigeon shot was another one, which turned plain nasty,banter is banter and on this site most of the time is a bloody good laugh,but last night was plain wrong, its an open site and every one should be able to post what they like,with out the abuse that some guys [not me so its not sour grapes]were getting,maybe it was the drink talking?

Quoted from chrisss

some of the posts i refer to have now been "lost" the pigeon shot was another one, which turned plain nasty,banter is banter and on this site most of the time is a bloody good laugh,but last night was plain wrong, its an open site and every one should be able to post what they like,with out the abuse that some guys [not me so its not sour grapes]were getting,maybe it was the drink talking?

ill sit and talk all night to any drink that can talk ,save me a fortune and make me one at the same time,

Quoted from chrisss

i agree, last night [to be fair very late last night] it was bang out of order,it was not banter it was abuse,to me there is a vast difference between winding people up, and what was going on in one of the posts,i think it was the one about losses,[might have been taken off by now]it was plain nasty and reflects very badly on us if the "norms" look in on the site

this is what promted my post not the comments which if you read between lines is wit or to someone you requly talk to

Quoted from chrisss

some of the posts i refer to have now been "lost" the pigeon shot was another one, which turned plain nasty,banter is banter and on this site most of the time is a bloody good laugh,but last night was plain wrong, its an open site and every one should be able to post what they like,with out the abuse that some guys [not me so its not sour grapes]were getting,maybe it was the drink talking?

I took the posts of this morning when i read them think there were some that were well out of order i can understand how dogeon felt when she read them i dont think it was the sort of thread that should been turned into what it became

banter is fine but some people go far beyond banter and when pulled up about instantly back off and claim they were joking if some one constantly does it they should be asked to moderate their language failing that have their membership withdrawn the site does not need idiots who can not post without reverting to those tactics or swearing