Personal abuse - not tolerated, users banned

[robf]

To respond to another earlier post - I agree that it is personal abuse rather than swearing that is the main issue right now. I may have used swearing as a breach of rules simply because it was an easy one to use as an example.

 

We will be treating personal abuse much more seriously than bypassing the swear filter (which I think is a minor albeit annoying one) because I think personal abuse has a far greater impact and ruins threads etc.

[NoHalfMeasures]

Slightly off topic Rob, why is there a post score against each member? I feel there is a certain group on this site who treat it as their own playground and can adopt a "my ball" attitude during debates. Their high post rating seems to give them a sense of "authority" and "attitude". So why are the post scores required? This is not meant as being critical of the site, just don't understand why posters are labelled differently, aren't we all supposed to be equal?

[robf]

Slightly off topic Rob, why is there a post score against each member? I feel there is a certain group on this site who treat it as their own playground and can adopt a "my ball" attitude during debates. Their high post rating seems to give them a sense of "authority" and "attitude". So why are the post scores required? This is not meant as being critical of the site, just don't understand why posters are labelled differently, aren't we all supposed to be equal?

 

Sorry, not sure what you mean by "post score" - there is a tally of number of posts made by each member but that's all it is - a number. If someone with 10,000 posts deserves a ban then their number of posts won't come in to the decision.

 

Is this what you mean or if not, can you explain more?

[robf]

Unless you meant "Member titles" which is just a title that appears after a certain number of posts? It's one of those "why did they include such a feature?" features for me as it adds nothing but you can't switch it off as it is embedded in the code.

 

I guess you may be suggesting that someone with a title of "Senior member" (after 100 posts) may be seen as senior to a "Member" (less than 100 posts).

 

If so, I have changed all user titles. Now there are two - Members (regardless of number of posts made) and Administrators.

[grebovale]

To be honest in my opinion banning as come to late for me,used to love OVF but only come on now and then,Facebook is the main place I go now,even mar mate SMURF duner bother on here anymore,sad really because like I said,it used to be good on here

[toyahw]

Where exactly is this Facebook page of which we here so much?

[NoHalfMeasures]

Yes, this is what I was getting at, albeit a bit confusing. Can't see the need for any "senior", "junior" or whatever distinguishing titles, that's all mate.

Should have been attached to Rob's last post.

[robf]

Where exactly is this Facebook page of which we here so much?

 

Don't ask that - I've already lost a load of regulars as it is

[robf]

Yes, this is what I was getting at, albeit a bit confusing. Can't see the need for any "senior", "junior" or whatever distinguishing titles, that's all mate.

Should have been attached to Rob's last post.

 

Ok. That has now been sorted. For what it's worth I hated that feature to. It's a build-in one with vBulletin but always seemed pointless to me.

[toyahw]

Where exactly is this Facebook page of which we here so much?

Or even hear so much. Things seem to have switched to facebook, twitter. Personally I still prefer a moderated site, such as OVF, with added content and so on and so forth. I'm not planning on killing myself BTW as some of our younger readers suggested. Up the Vale!

[robf]

Or even hear so much. Things seem to have switched to facebook, twitter. Personally I still prefer a moderated site, such as OVF, with added content and so on and so forth. I'm not planning on killing myself BTW as some of our younger readers suggested. Up the Vale!

 

Facebook had hit sites like OVF and that's regardless of the comments on here about people being put off by "squabbling".

 

I would say that the rise of Facebook and other alternatives has fractured and divided the Vale online audience. Wheras a site like OVF was one of the few places to debate Vale now everyone has a choice.

 

I heard that 63% of Internet usage is mobile traffic and of that 77% of traffic is Facebook related. So, it's no surprise that all forums (not just OVF) have suffered a decline in audience.

 

All I will say is support your local, specialist, home-run forum (whether it's OVF or some other one) and don't let Facebook take over the whole web

[Jacko51]

Rob, can we have a poll so we can vote on who should be banned?!

[fairportnick]

Rob, can we have a poll so we can vote on who should be banned?!

 

Even if 70 % of the members have a vote of no confidence , the National Vale Party will still vote him back in.

[Jacko51]

Even if 70 % of the members have a vote of no confidence , the National Vale Party will still vote him back in.

 

Will we have to pay £25 to vote though??

[Fosse69]

Will we have to pay £25 to vote though??

Brown envelopes or biscuit tins?