Perry wrote:
I wish you luck with this one Minty. Unfortunately one of the main protagonists of hijack and abuse has been banned more times than smoking, and keep re-registering under a new alias.
To bowdlerise 'Porridge'; he is an habitual offender, who accepts moderators as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts banning in the same casual manner.
Point of order here.
I was issued with a lifetime ban for 1 breach of the AUP by side stepping the swear filter (as a joke I would add) substituting @ for a in a word that rhymed with banker.
There was no warning issued, it was a straight "Red" and by the time I had opened dialogue with the administrators to discuss the nature and reason for the ban, I had already popped back as enigmatic. This, due nothing more than bad timing and miscommunication
attracted the ire of the admins and we had the resultant new ID's and subsequent bans.
I do not "litter" the forum with different ID's and neither do attempt to hide my identity. My posting style is well known given I had a 20,000+ post career as Gutters and as I have shown on a number of occasions of late, I do not "derail" threads either.
When RONNIEQUIN announced to the world that he would take his 500 posts and play elsewhere unless action was taken, I asked him to point out any of the posts on the front page of the forum that I had hijacked. The simple truth was I hadn't. Give that thread is the third most popular one on here at present, behind Cowgirls "what are you watching on Sunday" and my 'Grand Final' thread, this forum seems preoccupied with certain posters more than those posters are with the threads about games? Strange, to say the least.
I do not hijack threads about games. I do make the occasional comment based on what I have read and heard regarding tactics and recruitment as it doesn't take a RFL qualified coach to see where we have been found lacking this season....nor do you need to have "been there".
as for the "insults" comments.
I was called a bell end and I responded by calling that person a retard. Simple etiquette would point to not being the first to throw insults if you're then going to run and whine to the mods when you get reciprocal treatment. You yourself perry have 1 particular instance that seems to have tarred my entire existence on these boards when
I questioned what act MacKay might be performing on Hughes to retain his employment...this one comment seems to have become me insulting all and sundry.
As for the topic of the remaining few fans. I applaud them, but at the same time reserve the right to take the mickey when they start to look and sound like a trainspotters convention. As one organiser of regular away travel who now supports Catalans remarked on facebook, "we used to take more away".....which got no rebuke, but when I post it on here, the clique circled their wagons.
The Bottom line here Perry.....and the rest of you, is that I have done and am prepared to do more for the club than most of you have or will, but I reserve the right to question and criticise the owner and his employees when they are seeming to make the same mistakes again. Repetitive it may be, but so are the errors that the club are making.....there is a direct correlation here.
So now we have Mintball giving her guidance when in reality, the only threads on here that were "off-piste" were the ones that were designed as such.....the recruitment thread is fine, the 2015 review is fine, Gareth Moore's thread is OK, Next seasons thread is in good nick......but still the whiners have run to teacher.
What happens next? In an ideal world, Gutterfax would have his posting rights reinstated with a flea in his ear and we could carry on as we have for over a decade, but somehow I doubt the admins will play that hand, so more than likely we will continue as we have for the last few months......it's not perfect, but I am as stubborn as the next man and I refuse to accept the lifetime ban without warning was either warranted or fair.
Over to you Mintball!
