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I have read the thread regarding the performance of our currrent Board in full and am amazed that the originator of the thread has been banned from the forum when only the responses to a reasonable question have been abusive and nasty.

The originator did in my view respond in a positive manner to the critics but was then vilified for not answering every post covering about six pages before being banned!!

Surely we are not yet a police state and should be able to question the direction being taken to achieve success for STFC on and off the pitch?

I am unsure if this thread will be allowed to continue but if it is please comment.

so u are the same cunt posting before then? ban him ben :)

I agree that banning him was a bit OTT. The good thing about the TEF is that it's pretty much anything goes (As long as it's legal) usually if someone states an opinion that the majority disagree on, they are shouted down, abused and then pretty much ignored. Which is the way it should be.

Subtle.

shame they don't ban a few more

I didn't realise you banned him.
When I first came on here I took a torrent of deserved abuse, I responded back with abuse.
I soon came to realise that's the TEF way and what makes this site head and shoulders above any other Swindon site, if he has been banned very surprised.

JPC82

I am not the same person who posted on the original thread but your comment proves my point, should the moderator ban me (using reasonable language) or you (using foul and abusive language)?

Is my memory correct from previous posts that you have some link with the youth team? If so I didn't make the grade cos I wasn't good enough what was your problem?

i dont have links with anyone, i just make up stories and hope they come true

more like you get information from a privileged source who is abusing their position by letting you post it

Hello gosport rob. I think JPC82 has what is known as 'a sense of humour'. Unfortunately not all of us possess this or his good looks and charm. I thought I'd give you a heads up because it's really the way of the TEF. We can take the mickey out of each other and ourselves more often than not.

Moving on to the thread in question - I read through it and it seemed to me that the originator did not purely want a debate. He took one or two 'neandethal comments' and exaggerrated that to be every post. I certainly got the feeling that the poster felt personally victimised because few agreed with him/her. It only really got any close to being heated exchanges when the originator started targetting certain individuals and belittling their views - the very thing they were supposedly accussing the other posters of.

I probably wouldn't have banned the bloke/lady, but then I only have powers to post masses of shit every day, not remove someone elses right to do the same.

The TEF is great because its run by the TEF for TEF.

Unlike thisis we dont have to put with any old shit.

The poster in question did seem to want to highlight the negatives posts and completely ignore the positives ones about our board.

Also, he couldnt quote properly which in itself should be a bannable offence.

If you dont like it feel free to leave.

It was me who banned him.

As others have pointed out people go on the wind up all the time, but it's normally for a bit of a laugh. Gasha was doing it for no other reason than to stir up angry responses.

One of the reason's it annoyed me is that I sometimes think that the TEF can have a bit of no criticising the new board blind spot, I was hoping that gasha's thread could help provoke a bit of debate on the subject. Yes the straight out one line abusive comments didn't help much, but it became clear pretty quickly it was these that this Gasha dude was interested in getting

Gasha wasn't banned for his opinions of the new board, I'm not convinced he really gives a shit either way, he was clearly just here to wind people up, and not in the fun fishing way that we sometimes play with around here.

I even went to quite a lot of lengths to give him the chance to keep up a good bit of discussion on the subject, he really didn't seem interested though.

Herthab's right in a way. The TEF normally does a pretty good job at moderating itself with the shouting down of the retards approach, but I'm not sure that works with things like Fitton, when we can be a bit blindly one sided.

Can we stop all this "I know if this thread will be allowed" or the "I might be banned for this but" bollocks? I rarely ban anybody, and it's not once been because they had a point of view that I disagreed with. I rarely lock or delete threads, in fact I can only think of one time I have. I even let personal abuse go, one of the things you have to accept when you don't use the internet to hide behind veil of anonymity.

Just for completion here's what I posted on the mod bit straight after I banned him. I guess it's easy to over think these things after the event.

Quickly covering the Freedom of Speech, Police State bollocks: I don't think the TEF has ever claimed to be some bastion of democracy and freedom. In fact it was set up with the intent to get away from the mongs who were very quickly ruining an unmoderated thisis forum. So in a way it was set up with the idea of exclusion from the off.


Lastly. That's pretty much all I have to say on the whole fucking thing. I think it's nice of me to go to these lengths to justify myself as it is. Unless anybody's got some really interesting new light to shed on the subject then please fuck off.

Who remembers J1mmy? He was 100 times more fun than Bart, despite having an equal number of brain cells.

Were j1mmy and Micky Hazard was God the same person?

So in summary trolling = possible banning.

Seems fair enough.

Just to back Bender up here.  The whole point of this forum is that it encourages debate lively or otherwise and while it’s a bit rich to call it intelligent on here, in fact that’s probably taking way far, it is here to try and get away from the mindless churn that you get with other forums.

There was nothing wrong with Gasha’s post or his comments in fact there has been far worse mentioned elsewhere about the club, players and fans etc but the fact is he was blatantly on a wind-up.  

If he wants to re-register and put his point across then fairly snuff he’s more than welcome but if he just wants to play troll then there are plenty of other places to play.

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of Devil’s Advocart or just plain being a tart to get a reaction, just look at Bart, but to simply register and attempt to deliberately wind people up is a bit much.

As I said if he wants to re-register and put his point across rather than just pull at people’s plonkers then he’s more than welcome.

its an internet forum, im sure he will get over it.

whats that outside my window?

Cheers dazzza.

That was a pretty therapeutic rant. I feel a lot better now.

Do you feel a bit less of a cunt too Ben?

I didn't feel like a cunt in the first place.

The mighty syouth would never have put up with this sort of questioning of his authoritar.

Ben ban me and i will cut you

Sonic would have wept if I'd called him a cunt though.

Sweet. Save me some effort. Will you let me dress up in black and put some musical emo ballads on in the background?

no

Reading between the lines, well ok the one liner, I smell a soul crying for help before it slips down the plughole of life. If I am to believe my ears your post has touched the caring side of my nature and I am fully prepared, although admittedly not qualified in a diploma kind of way, to give you some help with the counselling which you are desperately craving. If you can hold on until next October when I may be in the area again I can assure you it will all get sorted out.

Or is it that you've just run out of money for cig's again?

Mex is so mean.


Will you bring cigarettes to the counselling sessions?

and some red wine.

Sorry, did I say counselling? I meant cancelling since that's what your good at, yeah?

I'll bring the vino collapso anyway ...

(if I'm not banned)

 :bye:

cancelling?

It might have been canoeing, but I've just been told they are CANCELLING my kayak licence. I heard about from the coracle at Delphi.

Those bastards.

Yeah, they're into the Hebrew thing too. S'obvious ennit, with a name like Eli Jittemei?

You two ever heard of 'PMs' seems to be a private conversation here, if I was a mod I would ban the pair of you for trying to get off with each other  in public.:lovers:

Just because you think you're older than everyone else on here that doesn't give you the right to interrupt a delicate psycho-therapy session. Unless you want to join in a group hug?

Bring your own wine.

I appreciate Ben and others taking the time to respond to my concerns although I don't agree that the original poster only answered the negative posts.

I post on several forums but only when I feel I can contribute to a debate, the way this thread became a love fest and was used as an e mail system does bore me.

Finally the smug and self satisfied assumption that this forum is "ACE" and all others are "Crap" (thisisstfc for example) also becomes boring when used to justify villifying a different view.

cos this site is cliquey as fuck with loads of knobs

 Well fuck off back there...

Christ what was his problem? It's a football forum!

It is rather "cliquey".
Always has been since the migration a few years ago from the old, old ThisIs.
Having said that, the rest of the forum's Town related are populated by, for the most part, total and utter spastics.

Yeah there are cliques within this site but that's to be expected when a load of the posters travel to away games together, or go to trust meetings together etc.  I don't consider myself to be part of any clique here and try to post as I would on other sites.  Think if you're that bothered about cliques you may have a problem yourself.

Liar! You're in the mockney jockney clique.

I don't know anyone on this site in the real world, I'm not in a clique and I post on other forums. I post here because, Oxford_fan aside, we all have one thing in common. I participate, I enjoy it.

Yeah but on my own!!!  Can you be a clique of 1?

Thinking about it maybe 3, Edna, Will and myself.

 Have you recruited any more TEFes to your BNP clique of one?

I hope you die soon you old cunt.
Merry Christmas.

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Yeah, it just makes you even more cliquey.

So gosport rob, you just happened to come on here, read the aforementioned thread and decide you needed to say something about it? Why not post on other topics too? If you think the forum lacks something, add to it.

If you don't like the forum then you probably shouldn't read it. That's exactly what I do with thisis. I don't feel the need to go on there and tell them all what I think of them that way. I gave up on thisis when people were stating that orange hats were the mystery explanation to us not performing well on the pitch. We all have out reasons for not liking something. When there are alternatives you prefer, you don't have to put up with it.

I have no problem with foul and abusive language per se, providing that there is at least a point to it, just to call me and others f'ing cnts for the sake of it seems to be a waste of valuable time.

If the general direction this forum was not to my liking I would not bother to read or comment on it, I suppose that this is a compliment!!

My wife read the thread and has advised me to change my sign on to some place further away from Swindon (eg. Balamory) so watch this space!!

Oh Yeah Gosport............

MERRY CHRISTMAS :):):)

i thought banning matey was harsh,but i dont really give a fuck so whoopee do.
yes this forum is cliquey as fuck, but it is still the best town forum by a mile.
thisis used to be my fav a few years ago but is utter shit now.

If you say so.

Ban this Racist.

cock!

Its better to be cliquey then have a forum full of spastics who have one brain cell between them.

I'm convinced half the mongs on thisis are inbred scummers and not Town fans at all.

cliquey is not the word the fact that most post end up being a conversation bewtween the same old people about something off topic is annoying and the lack of rightwing views is also a tad annoying but to suggest the tef has a freedom of speeach problem is rubbish face it the chap was a cunt and was banned and gosport your a cunt to so fuck off and die and

Thanks for resurrecting this one GFM.

and.....

 What do you think of the new Dr Who fB?

I'd have preffered someone older, and I also wanted Patterson Joseph. I'm not too bothered about the age though. He's only a couple of years younger than Davison and I've been re-watching him a bit recently (Earthshock is a bit tragic).

He's also looks a bit odd, which is good for a doctor, like a cross between Troughton and the aforementioned Davison. I think he'll be ok as long as they resist the temptation of gothing/emoing him up. Maybe bring back the Edwardian look. Oh and he has to wear a hat. Definitely needs a hat.

I've got a bit of faith in Moffat writing, but I'm a bit weary that they'll just make him Tennant II. Have to wait and I suppose.

Am I right in saying that, technically, the question should be "what do you think of the new Doctor?"?

Doctor Who being the program, the Doctor being... the doctor.

How would they have explained him looking just like that bloke they met on the game-station that time?

That would be correct. His real name is one of the mysteries of the show, and was going to be part of an epic season length story arc with McCoy, but then it got axed. It's been bought up again recently though, in the brilliant "Girl in the Fireplace" and again in the "Scilence in the Library / Whatever the second part is called" double, both of witch were written by Moffat. Could be one of the things bought up in 2010.

There are some series back in the 70's or maybe 80's where he's called Doctor Who in the credits. That's just a mistake though. And there's obviously occasions when they play on it, "I'm the Doctor", "Doctor Who?"; amongst others.

Not bothered. Sure they'd have come up with something. Matha Jones actress had already appeared in the cybermen vs. daleks end of (new) S2 double.

 Seems reasonable...but where has being reasonable ever got us what this country needs is an iron fist...

I'm reliably informed that Gordon Brown was very busy talking to Mr Motivator this morning.

But luckily for him we have Tottenham Hotspur trying to single-handedly kick-start the economy by paying excessive amounts of money for a succession of British players.

S'pose so.

More importantly with DT about to FO out of the role, how are they going to square the future shadowing revealed by the professor in the library episode. He's got to meet the woman, fall in love, have a lenghty relationship, tell her his name and give her a sonic screwdriver (not a euphamism) before he changes his face, as she clearly had known him in this incarnation.

They've got 3/4 specials to sort that out, or they just leave it hanging and leave the chronology and timescale of the events of the specials vague enough to allow it to have happened off screen.

I don't really like the latter idea. The events of the episodes in the show since its  RTD rebirth have fitted together chronologically into broader grand narratives, I never liked it in the past when it used to get a bit messy and there were inconsistencies and anomalies in storylines.

Maybe she meets a future doctor, but then I suppose how does she recognise him and expect him to know who she is. Tricky one. Maybe she thinks he's the regeneration after next or something. Could work out I think.

Have to wait and see I suppose.

Nah, I watched this on the I-player the other week and she definately makes some remarks about his appearance, making it clear it's this incarnation she knew.

Stupid DT cocking up Moffat's big bold plans for plotlines. GRR!

I am a bit worried that Moffat seems to be obsessed with a romantic side for the doctor, there's the library two parter, girl in the fireplace, and the doctor dances. Not a path I'm too keen on.

The name thing good end up being awesome though. I had a thought that the reason she'd know his name could be something off the wall, like breaking his 12 regenerations limit, but as you say that doesn't really fit into the knowing his appearance stuff.

Either way I'm looking forward to the 2010 series. Shame it's such a wait. Oh well, still got the 4 specials to keep us going. Not long until easter for the next one.

There should be some Torchwood to keep us going as well.

I've made the assumption that Mickey will be joining them in the new series, based on the final episode of the last series of Dr Who, and possibly they'll move Marth across as well as there seem to have been some hints that her relationship with UNIT is a bit iffy.

Fuck I've turned into such a geek.

Torchwood is only going to be 5 episodes over 1 week. Or that's what I heard last time I looked.

It's generally pretty poor as well, although the second series improved, and I'm glad they did a bit of a character culling at the end.

I'm not sure things are looking to bright for it as a regular yearly series.

Ok I have re-registered just to make a few points on the original thread and to prove I know how to use the quote button.

Despite all the accusations, I had no intention of "winding up" anyone. Frankly, I've got better things to do with my time than gain some infantile satisfaction from the annoyance of others. I  merely wanted to raise some important issues about the club I have supported for 20 years.

Interestingly Ben I spent 20 minues typing a detailed response to your question about my concerns (as you suggested) with the current board. Had you waited a bit longer before giving us your trigger happy response you would have seen it. Still, it's you forum; you know best.

To be honest I need this crap like a fucking hole in the head.

This will be my first and last post.

hahahaha ace, that was a worthwhile response.

Come join us, come join us come join us over here.

Come on Gasha, you might like the place once you've settled in a bit!

If you dont need the hassle why bother coming back at all?

Just dont look.

I find it difficcult to have any sympathy for you even though I agree with some of your points,I think its because your name makes me think of Gas Heads.

Why does yeovil only have 16 posts?

I deleted 10,000 of my old posts

Were you bored?

Not really,I just changed it in my profile.

I think a low post count suits me better.

Whoever changed YR's count to millions, can't you increase Lloyd's post count by 90 odd thousand, would be nice to see his name up in lights!

Makes me think of man's first love, gash.