New Moderators pulling threads.

Rob - I disagree. Allan has been here for a long time and he has been nothing but consistent. Why threaten to ban him now? He is not anti-semitic - I am Jewish (and have relatives who survived Auschwitz) and the use of Getapo in a negative light is not anti-semitic. If you read this thread from start to finish Sfumato entered the fray and claimed Allan was on his ignore list - which he clearly isn't.

Now if Allan gets anti-semitic etc., breaks a bunch of rules - thats anothers story.

I personally think it takes all types to make a community. We don't need excessive moderation and banning. Allan is funny and knowledgeable - sometimes not so nice, sometimes he is an outright prick.

PUT HIM ON YOUR IGNORE LIST IF YOU ARE THIN SKINNED. This is for you Sfumato.

To be honest Sfumato was offensive towards Allan in several ways - taking bets on how long his marriage would last, saying he would kiss his wife with a potty mouth etc. Allan did not offend sfumato's family. Have you issued a similar warning in Sfumato's direction?

 

I said:
"Do you know who Sfumato is?"
I then gave an extremely brief "I'll tell you who/what this guy is" answer.

If he said he'd piss on a bum,
I would say:
"Do you know who/what (X) is?"
Then I would give an extremely brief "I'll tell you who/what this guy is" answer.

When it comes to driving, purchasing or modifying cars (outside of Ferrari-bashing), Allan thinks before he says or does.
Is it not fair to suggest to anyone with anti-social behavior that they apply these basic guidelines (People = Think before Say or Do) in their daily (online) life?

 

The link to the Lumberjack Song doesn't work!

An all time classic.

 

I agree with Rodsky. If you don't like what someone is posting, put them on Ignore. That's what it's there for. Contrary to the beliefs those thin-skinned members that whine every time someone says something negative about Ferrari, Allan does have valuable contributions to this community. If this place is going to turn into a boring community where everyone agrees with each other, where everyone has to worry about giving their own opinion, and where someone is afraid to stir up some excitement for fear of getting whacked by a moderator, then I won't be visiting much. If this is going to turn into a censored dictatorship, then why have the Ignore feature? With censorship, the Ignore feature is a waste.

You are concerned about losing members based on Allan's postings. I would be more concerned about losing members if you start to over-censor everything.

 

The Spam one does....

spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

 

Hey! No spamming the board! LOL!

 

Baked beans spam spam spam spam and spam, hold the baked beans.

 

Completely agree, I say list the words you do not want used as you stated the nudity rules you want and let people say whatever they want. There will be no interpretation of "hurting someones poor feelings". If people use the words or post un aceptable pics they get whatever is coming to them. Moderating content is completely subjective and can never be fair. Something that is anti-semetic to some could be comedy to others. Thats what ignore is for. This community is no different than any other. Do you like all your neighbors? Of course not but instead of telling them what they can say to you, you just ignore them!

 

I agree with Rodsky, Clax, and Jeff.

Wayne, you can put in a whoops or take our protests as such. If it was legal under the new terms, then a less heavy hand even when a thread is reported or an amendment to the terms of what is acceptable should happen, correct?

I will defend my right to alien sex pictures and freedom of speech on F-chat if it conforms to the terms and conditions with my participation.

Sunny

 

If you guys want to see a reason to moderate a thread go to the "haven't had a funny picture" thread and see how Rudypelligrini pollutes what started out as a good thread. Go to the last two or three pages.

 

Jeez man, I feel bad. I'm the one who posted the comment (meant as a joke, with a smiley) that Allan replied to that got him banned. Sorry dude.

Also, I probably should apologize to Carbon/NNO for the joke in the first place.

Dom

 

Ok guys how about this:

1.] Any time a moderator deletes or locks a thread from now on we get at least 2 other moderators to agree on it.

2.] As for troubled users, if there is a consensus amoung that moderators a user is a problem, we forward our complaints to Rob.

I will start, I vote to lock the lamarossa threads in offtopic.

I vote to ban the user who started and keeps attacking in the ferrari beater thread, note the thread is fine, but the way the user responds to other users is just wrong. Nothing against him personally, but he is detracting from the community.

I vote to ban lamarossa, who even after I sent him a number of PMs asking what he wants from fchat, does not respond to me, and keeps at it with his nearly illegable posts. Nothing against him personally, but he is detracting from the community.

Rob to fasilitate rapid moderator discourse, can we have a section that does not get saved in archieves (to prevent wasted space) just so moderators can discuss and decide if said post must be locked or not. Or make sticky posts that only moderators/adm can see on the top of sections for the same effect, again that are not saved to archieves.

 

Omar

I would also ask you to look at SKIZOACE. I know you are aware of the behavior he pulled couple of days ago when you moderated his posts. He went to the Texas section and started trying to make friends with the locals, thinking none of us will know he is still on the board. He made a carwash thread there you can check out.

Just a heads up, he is clearly a troll, and his racist remarks are really uncalled for.

 

Apologize for what...? You've done nothing wrong... There's no harm in a joke; hell, i don't even know what you're referring to... No apologies necessary, my friend...

 

If you delete every thread that detracts from the community it will get out of control. There are plenty of things I read that I think are worthless yet someone else may disagree.

 

rob...

i am just a nobody here,but would like to stay here as well.you have stated you will do what the community wants concerning allan...then you pretty much say that this is your forum and you will do as you please.i have no beef with that,but you need to be consistenet with one way or another.concerning the subscription fees.....allan did pay the rossa amount,i think that should count as something.he WANTS to help this community survive and flourish,i have not seen(nor do i have) a subscription amount/name under sfumato's name.or a bunch of other peoples names that are complaining.to me,if someone paid to be here,i would be more tolerant to start than with those that haven't paid anything yet.if you lose a non-subscriber,how much would it really affect the forum...over what someone has paid you to be here?you may lose the 1000 people anyway when next month starts anyway.i,personally(and i don't know if you have or what you have said) would talk to allan and tell him to tone it down or a temporoary ban could ensue(or something like that) and could be permanant if things didn't change.i'm on an R1 forum...it took time for the new mods to feel out how things flow....sometimes a mod has to step in and warm everyone to calm down or the thread will be closed or deleted and that usually works.

i personally like to read the goings on between allan and nno,but i think the thin skinned people need to lighten up some as well.afterall...this is the internet.if someone offends you,what is the point of getting you panties in a wad?what are you going to do?go over and beat them up?put them on your ignore list and forget al about it.....