Close the debates forum

Rubbish, racist, and bad for business.

Originally posted by dottewell
Rubbish, racist, and bad for business.

But then all the dumb Bigots would move on to the General.

Why not just ban these nutjobs like they should be doing ?

Originally posted by dottewell
Rubbish, racist, and bad for business.

But don't you think it's better to keep 'em all together in one place, rather than contaminating the other forums?

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
But then all the dumb Bigots would move on to the General.

Why not just ban these nutjobs like they should be doing ?

Yup, that's the choice.

Personally, if there not going to be banned, I'd close the debates forum. It's bad for business. If they all moved over to another forum, and did the same, I'd close that too.

Originally posted by dottewell
Yup, that's the choice.

Personally, if there not going to be banned, I'd close the debates forum. It's bad for business. If they all moved over to another forum, and did the same, I'd close that too.

You're right, of course, but i don't think threads like "why aren't there gay retards" in the General help much either. . .maybe i'm getting too old.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
You're right, of course, but i don't think threads like "why aren't there gay retards" in the General help much either. . .maybe i'm getting too old.

1 rec, 0 alerts on that thread. Stupid!

Debates and Meet Opponents should both be shut down. One is for racists, the other is for stalkers. They both sicken me.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
1 rec, 0 alerts on that thread. Stupid!

Debates and Meet Opponents should both be shut down. One is for racists, the other is for stalkers. They both sicken me.

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AS posted above, it wouldn't solve the problem, just move it. The end result then would be 1 of:

1) Stricter moderation in remaining forums to keep subjects to forum topic (although how this applies to general who knows?)

2) all forums close

Originally posted by Phlabibit
1 rec, 0 alerts on that thread. Stupid!

Debates and Meet Opponents should both be shut down. One is for racists, the other is for stalkers. They both sicken me.

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You told me yourself, one alert does not a thread remove. . . .What's the point ?

Originally posted by dottewell
Rubbish, racist, and bad for business.

it should be replaced by a sports forum

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
You told me yourself, one alert does not a thread remove. . . .What's the point ?

I didn't say one alert would remove it... I'm saying no one alerted it.

If you go fishing and you don't catch anything, do you give up or keep casting?

Alerts do work if people use them, seems not many people do.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
I didn't say one alert would remove it... I'm saying no one alerted it.

If you go fishing and you don't catch anything, do you give up or keep casting?

Alerts do work if people use them, seems not many people do.

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It depends on the time of day, what I'm fishing for and who I'm with. If I'm not catching anything though I'll take a nice long break to get nice and buzzed. good analogy though

Originally posted by Phlabibit
I didn't say one alert would remove it... I'm saying no one alerted it.

If you go fishing and you don't catch anything, do you give up or keep casting?

Alerts do work if people use them, seems not many people do.

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What is the point of alerting something, if nothing gets done ?

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
What is the point of alerting something, if nothing gets done ?

Near 75 posts have been hidden in the past 3 days. You shouldn't make claims about things you don't have any info about.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Near 75 posts have been hidden in the past 3 days. You shouldn't make claims about things you don't have any info about.

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ok, instead i'll ask a question. How many posts get deleted after on alert ?


The point is , you told me that you don't delete posts because of one alert. If i had alerted that particular thread, i would've been the sole alert.
Would you've deleted it ?

I think a partial (not total) solution comes back to the old problem of anybody being able to sgin up as a non-subscriber and immediately having the right to post in the forums (fora).

I think we need to have some means of preventing this - either a number of games/moves being a requirement before you get posting rights, or just a set of subsciber-only forums.

Also, some kind of semi-automated ban would calm some people down. What I mean is that, if a user has a certain number of alerts, they get a 1-day ban. We'd need to prevent people just using alerts to bully people they didn't agree with though. But otherwise there is no incentive for people to behave themselves, if the worst that happens is that their post gets zapped.