GENERAL FORUM RE-OPENED FOR ONE MONTH TRIAL
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- HardSaint
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Interesting timing I thought tonight
What with the Polish delegation going down in a plane crash
The situation in Kyrgistan
Red shirt riots in Bangkok bankrolled by Big Business
Deir Yassin anniversary
Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing
I havent had so many topics to post in months
... and yet, still my request is pending
What with the Polish delegation going down in a plane crash
The situation in Kyrgistan
Red shirt riots in Bangkok bankrolled by Big Business
Deir Yassin anniversary
Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing
I havent had so many topics to post in months
... and yet, still my request is pending
- HardSaint
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That they could already do under the previous set up - either go in or notn1ck wrote:Lol ulterior motive?
Our ulterior motive is to try to give reasonable people a choice whether they want to be associated with the General Forum.
Id like to hear what your suspicions are, though.
Dont know why you have to hide it away like you have under the guise of "choice"
So only those in the know of the GF can participate
I think you know very very well what I'm talking about
- HardSaint
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and might I also point out, the measures you have put in place are generally only applied when there is a troll problem
To date, I dont believe we have had a single troll in the GF and I would welcome any game trolls willing to take on the General Forumites
I'm sorry once again, your "Freedom Of Choice" argument doesnt stack up
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
To date, I dont believe we have had a single troll in the GF and I would welcome any game trolls willing to take on the General Forumites
I'm sorry once again, your "Freedom Of Choice" argument doesnt stack up
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
- GrumpyOne
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+1 that man.HardSaint wrote:That they could already do under the previous set up - either go in or notn1ck wrote:Lol ulterior motive?
Our ulterior motive is to try to give reasonable people a choice whether they want to be associated with the General Forum.
Id like to hear what your suspicions are, though.
Dont know why you have to hide it away like you have under the guise of "choice"
So only those in the know of the GF can participate
I think you know very very well what I'm talking about
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The worst post by far i have had to read on this forum for dishonesty. How can there be choice when no one can access a forum that 99% of users had used within the forum rules. No explanation offered, no warning to the sudden closure.n1ck wrote:Lol ulterior motive?
Our ulterior motive is to try to give reasonable people a choice whether they want to be associated with the General Forum.
Id like to hear what your suspicions are, though.
Tell us the real reason for denying everyone access to the General Forum?
You have a long way to go before you reach the powers of a real censoring dictatorship.
Who has told you to close the general forum down? You want to control people as to what ideas and thoughts can be shared,to stop free discussion.
Occasionally i have picked up useful thoughts and ideas from the discussions whether contributed from left or right of politics, even from both religious and non religious standpoints.
Instead someone, to which you agree with has, decided that the General forum is not worth keeping. Not enough teenage dross in it.
- HardSaint
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The role of sport in the Empire is to be encouraged for it facilitates mass gatherings and a demonstration of shared will to pour aspirations into tribal, parchochial yet ultimately meaningless outcomes
This in turn negates the tendency of humans in community to gather under other pretenses thereby deflecting the opportunity for social dissidence and resentment of the unjust actions and policies of the Empire.
Under no circumstances, can the overwhelming state / media / administered encouragement of sport and the resultant mass demonstration of support be allowed to foster discussion of anything other than the tribal pursuit for one spark of reality and logic may burn down the barn
This in turn negates the tendency of humans in community to gather under other pretenses thereby deflecting the opportunity for social dissidence and resentment of the unjust actions and policies of the Empire.
Under no circumstances, can the overwhelming state / media / administered encouragement of sport and the resultant mass demonstration of support be allowed to foster discussion of anything other than the tribal pursuit for one spark of reality and logic may burn down the barn
If you are talking about this post; "It's just a limitation of the software, everyone is getting approved."SENsaintsational wrote:It certainly is an interesting turn of events. It does appear that there is more to the story. Wonder what the software issue can be?
What I was alluding to is that there is no option to allow access straight away, the software is written in such a way that an admin must click approve first. If access could be given straight away then that's would have been done, as everyone is getting approved anyway.
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And as I have mentioned a few times, the reason it has been done is so that people don't have to be associated with the General Forum if they don't want to. There's no more to the story
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- GrumpyOne
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Would it have killed anybody Battye to give appropriate warning beforehand?battye wrote:If you are talking about this post; "It's just a limitation of the software, everyone is getting approved."SENsaintsational wrote:It certainly is an interesting turn of events. It does appear that there is more to the story. Wonder what the software issue can be?
What I was alluding to is that there is no option to allow access straight away, the software is written in such a way that an admin must click approve first. If access could be given straight away then that's would have been done, as everyone is getting approved anyway.
And as I have mentioned a few times, the reason it has been done is so that people don't have to be associated with the General Forum if they don't want to. There's no more to the story
An extremely high-handed attitude to just have the Gen Forum disappear from our screens in just a blink of an eye.
The Forum probably doesn't mean much to you, but to others it is an important part of the SS experience.
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I don't think the change was big enough to warrant any advance notice. For the first night I know that n1ck and I were both keeping a close eye on the list of users to make sure everyone was getting approved quickly, I doubt the turnaround time would have been any more than 15 minutes. Even now I am checking the list several times a day to make sure everyone is being approved, as I'm sure n1ck is too.GrumpyOne wrote:Would it have killed anybody Battye to give appropriate warning beforehand?battye wrote:If you are talking about this post; "It's just a limitation of the software, everyone is getting approved."SENsaintsational wrote:It certainly is an interesting turn of events. It does appear that there is more to the story. Wonder what the software issue can be?
What I was alluding to is that there is no option to allow access straight away, the software is written in such a way that an admin must click approve first. If access could be given straight away then that's would have been done, as everyone is getting approved anyway.
And as I have mentioned a few times, the reason it has been done is so that people don't have to be associated with the General Forum if they don't want to. There's no more to the story
An extremely high-handed attitude to just have the Gen Forum disappear from our screens in just a blink of an eye.
The Forum probably doesn't mean much to you, but to others it is an important part of the SS experience.
It seems that everyone has found the forum pretty quickly, so I don't think anything has been removed from the General Forum experience.
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- n1ck
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Fair enough you think it was a big deal - I understand that and apologise for not making an announcement beforehand.
We didnt think it was a huge deal. We are not blocking anyone from using it, as battye has already said, everyone is being 'approved' for want of a better word.
There is no ulterior motive. Plenty of people have joined the GF, and plenty more are, every day - thus its hard to conclude that we've hidden the GF from anybody.
As he's also said, we check a few times a day to make sure nobody has to wait too long.
We didnt think it was a huge deal. We are not blocking anyone from using it, as battye has already said, everyone is being 'approved' for want of a better word.
There is no ulterior motive. Plenty of people have joined the GF, and plenty more are, every day - thus its hard to conclude that we've hidden the GF from anybody.
As he's also said, we check a few times a day to make sure nobody has to wait too long.
- St Fidelius
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n!ck, may I say this....n1ck wrote:Fair enough you think it was a big deal - I understand that and apologise for not making an announcement beforehand.
We didnt think it was a huge deal. We are not blocking anyone from using it, as battye has already said, everyone is being 'approved' for want of a better word.
There is no ulterior motive. Plenty of people have joined the GF, and plenty more are, every day - thus its hard to conclude that we've hidden the GF from anybody.
As he's also said, we check a few times a day to make sure nobody has to wait too long.
I have not been a huge supporter of you on personal reasons, but I must say that your posts have been without doubt been fair and very reasonable and have you have never responded to my outbursts against you on that personal reason...
You really can't provide a happy environment to suit everyone and that's a fact that all you admin and mod staff well and truly know.
I really don't see why some on here are complaining to be honest....
The posters still have this site to join and can continue to banter gee what's the problem???
These people can also elect to join a facebook (which was not around when damien started this web site)
For those stop the F*** complaining, you still have the option of joining the General Forum in any case, sop why the F*** complain???
Join up with some twitter or facebook if you don't like it FFS.
Too hard and impossible to please everyone
Don't wait for the light at the end of the tunnel to appear, run down there and light the bloody thing yourself!
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I think you missed the point St Fid, people seem to have to issues:St Fidelius wrote:n!ck, may I say this....n1ck wrote:Fair enough you think it was a big deal - I understand that and apologise for not making an announcement beforehand.
We didnt think it was a huge deal. We are not blocking anyone from using it, as battye has already said, everyone is being 'approved' for want of a better word.
There is no ulterior motive. Plenty of people have joined the GF, and plenty more are, every day - thus its hard to conclude that we've hidden the GF from anybody.
As he's also said, we check a few times a day to make sure nobody has to wait too long.
I have not been a huge supporter of you on personal reasons, but I must say that your posts have been without doubt been fair and very reasonable and have you have never responded to my outbursts against you on that personal reason...
You really can't provide a happy environment to suit everyone and that's a fact that all you admin and mod staff well and truly know.
I really don't see why some on here are complaining to be honest....
The posters still have this site to join and can continue to banter gee what's the problem???
These people can also elect to join a facebook (which was not around when damien started this web site)
For those stop the F*** complaining, you still have the option of joining the General Forum in any case, sop why the F*** complain???
Join up with some twitter or facebook if you don't like it FFS.
Too hard and impossible to please everyone
(1) No advance notice
(2) Reason it needed to be done and what it will achieve.
That's all.
- HardSaint
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Point 2 is the main onesaintspremiers wrote:
I think you missed the point St Fid, people seem to have to issues:
(1) No advance notice
(2) Reason it needed to be done and what it will achieve.
That's all.
Why the GF needs to be hidden away - why General Forum rants and debates need to be hidden away and unavailable to anyone who cares to look at them - whether SS members or unaligned web surfers
Software Limitation? I mean really???? FFS
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Come on guys what the problem?
For he second time - Who is your Daddy and what does he do?
Also N1ck, I'd like to know your definition of a "reasonable person" and what this has to do with the freedom to access a site / forum and his or her choice to take it or leave it
I was about to complain about the new setup, but there's really nothing to complain about.
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I still don't get the point tbh other than the mods wanting to show off their computer skills. In my illustrious internet career I've seen a lot worse than the Saintsational General Forum LOL
It's like somebody was reading through a manual and came across the bit on "how to make a forum section subscription only" and thought, "wow, that sounds like fun! lets try that!!!1!23"
Normal service resumed really.
If you want to read it, subscribe, if you don't, don't.
I still don't get the point tbh other than the mods wanting to show off their computer skills. In my illustrious internet career I've seen a lot worse than the Saintsational General Forum LOL
It's like somebody was reading through a manual and came across the bit on "how to make a forum section subscription only" and thought, "wow, that sounds like fun! lets try that!!!1!23"
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and their links to spurious intelligence agencies and doing their part to in the great global effort to hide away the real talk - getting nice little pats on their heads from their masters in the great Salo MansionBeej wrote: I still don't get the point tbh other than the mods wanting to show off their computer skills.
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