git

PS again, the 2000 was for you AITL. ;)

Actually agree with you Stewarty.

There are different criteria evidently attached to these things. I have seen things on the soccer forum that are far, far worse than AITL got pulled for.

Ah well, goodnight all, apart from us NFLfans.

:b

....I was asked to post The following as an explanation to someone / All .....
The asterisks were not in the original message but inserted by myself to avoid any iuneccasary offences or bans being handed out ...
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Oggsy, as you know, I am far from stupid and definitely not ' punchy'. I knew that I was on my last warning, but as I work for Campo I was posting in his name as all my previous (and spare) accounts were banned. I never posted anything that was bad enough to be personally banned again after my last life ban. I also got mischevious and got Campo a month ban earlier in 2006 or back in 2005.

I had no intention of geting banned again, and BF knew this. Even though they had banned me it was obvious to anybody with more than one brain cell I was running quizzes in Campos name, and keeping away from the immigrant/racist/political threads. When the question of mus***s hiring Alton Towers for the day came up, I had a new identity and posted my one word post ' So*p' as a joke. If I wanted to be offensive and commit forum suicide, there is no doubt I could have posted a lot worse comments. Unfortunately Knight Rider ceased to see it as a joke and grassed me up. So I got banned again. I went back to posting in Campos name and from July 2006 onwards nobody bothered me. Then came the 9th December ' upgrade' where I was left a message on a different forum that all bans had been lifted from chitchat. The same message was left for Poppydog.

Then came the fateful Fred77 link, where I changed my forum name, which of course, BF say cannot be done. However, in changing it it mucked up my posts as I could not see the forum when I was logged in, and could not reply to threads. The only way to get in was to start a new thread and then reply, if necessary, on another one. Everythings Gone Green had the same problem. Iconoclast asked for the weblink address to Fred77, which I posted, and 20 minutes later the thread was pulled and I was unable to log on to the forum again. In the few weeks that followed I changed my name on the Fred77 link 4 times to gain access. Eventually my enemy or enemies made it clear to BF that I was still posting, and all my names were stopped. including yet another spare account. Despite no problems with my posts since July.

When I contacted BF they said I was banned from July 2006, I said I had been posting since then with no problem on all other fora, but couldn't get on chitchat. They said the ban stays, and was now inclusive of all fora. This made it clear to me that there is definitely one or more chitchatters who don't visit General Betting or Boxing (as I wouldn't be liable to post elsewhere) and as soon as they realised it was me that was posting in Campos name again on chit chat, they contacted BF and the final ban took place.

Sadly, the content these days consists of such gems as ' How many times do you w*nk in a month?' and other great threads likes 'Which way do you lean to wipe your rs?' It shows the mentality of the majority of forumites these days as these threads were not deemed offensive and were left to run for quite a while. I had a post pulled last year because it had the word **' in the title. Last week there was a thread with the word **y' in the title that stayed on there for 2 days despite me asking BF why it wasn't deemed offensive this year. I asked if a thread with the word ' P-**-i ' in the title would have been pulled. It's supposed to be a helpdesk, but as somebody else once said, they should just name it ' desk' for what use they are. Naturally, my e-mail was tinted with sarcasm with the opening gambit being ' Good afternoon, sorry if I woke anybody up....'.

Of course, they replied, .... two days later...... when the ' non-offensive' thread was never pulled, but dropped off the bottom.. :)

As for left wing pink*s, they can only win arguments by getting people banned. I got just as offended by left wing views but I didn't grass anybody, and even if I did, I knew it would be pointless as left wingers don't get banned.

I don't like one group of forumites being treated differently to anybody else in a country that is slowly strangling freedom of speech. Furthermore, I can't compete with such literary genius as ' w*nks in a month' or threads of a similar wit, and decided never to come back, so grasses and BF mood-erators will never get the chance to ban me again.

Love to all, except those that I don't like... :)

Birdman/The Glimmer Man/AM I TOO LATE/Campoisgod/The names Bond.....James Bond/Father Xmas/PLARKOTEX/ and finally, AM I TOO EARLY, and a few more that nobody knew about... :)



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Oggs, there are definitely different criteria accorded to many people on here - not just the different fora.

No matter what people might have thought of TGM's posts, there was no doubting he brought far more to the forum than he ever subtracted.

I never saw the posts/threads he was banned for, but I know from what was said after his bans, they certainly weren't anything to personally confront or abuse anyone on here individually - unlike some of the undesirable elements who have been banned, but are able to carry on posting here.

Did he ever stoop so low as to accuse certain forumites of being paedophiles, as each way did or tell anyone to " **** off and die **** " as canaryboy did?

To my way of thinking, those are far more incendiary comments than any to do with political opinion.

I could go on, but it's late.

Without doubt, the Chit Chat forum is a very depleted place without TGM.

jeez i wasn't actually being serious when i said that

i'm an undesirable element :0

it was stupid. but was meant in the same way as 'go and play in the traffic'. just an insult.

not an actual serious suggestion.

seem a lot of good people on here.

and the person i insulted was imo one of the imbeciles.

it wasn't a 'comment' as you put it.

it's a quote. like get lost. though saying that to someone, i wouldn't actually wish it literally.

i take it you're over a certain age. 50+?

As usual, you're wrong canaryboy.

There is a degree of decency in life which should never be underestimated, just because you are angry or you think "that's the way life is now - and I can say whatever I like"

If everyone thought like that, the world would be in an even bigger mess than it is.

Think.

and one comment out of hundreds is hardly fair to judge someone on.

I'm not judging you, canaryboy.
I was just pointing out you told someone to " **** off and die **** "
Which only cost you a week's ban.
Yet TGM is supposed to have transgressed in a worse way to warrant a lifetime ban?

I don't think so.

ok but don't judge him on whats happened to others. it's down to the mods at the end of the day and i'd done nothing to warrant any warnings before that. it seems your friend is a repeat offender though not that offensive.

Canaryboy, the point about the banning of TGM
is the 'pointing out' of him being here, which seems to annoy some forumites.

I have seen him make comments about people he's worked with
which are entirely salient points, as they are from personal life experiences

I've never seen him make contentious remarks about forumites being paedophiles
or should die, such as e/w and you have done with no reason other than malice.

Hi TT,

Sorry, I've only stumbled across this now, very late in the hour/day. I need to get some sleep but will respond tomorrow.

for stewartyb

ttt

Goodnight AITL and anyboby else looking in. Having an early night to save on the heating bills.

Already burned 4 candles today. (one was for boiling water right enough). ;)