Roberto71
Well-known member
UT does a great job and needs everyone's support which means we all have a responsibility to try and keep things on the level here and not have the need for Mods to be constantly having to step in. Moderating is a thankless task. I was one on a global rugby forum for years and it was challenging to say the least. It had a large membership with posters from New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, Australia, Canada, US, Italy, Argentina, Italy, France, Georgia etc etc
It made this place very sane. We had instances of posters actually meeting off-board to "settle matters". One poster pulled a cheap shot move once and ratted on another poster to that poster's employer and got him the sack. There were all kinds of legal threats flung about, you name it. It got especially heated when the the countries would play each other in the Rugby matches like World Cups, Summer tours etc you'd have all the posters from New Zealand say battling the South African posters on threads that would descend into appalling s**t fights. You can imagine what the threads were like when Ireland played England each year....Bans were handed out on a daily basis.
People who have never modded have no idea of what kind of crap Mods have to put up with off-board. The personal messages and emails from deluded and borderline lunatic posters.
UT was right to bring the banhammer to I50, he had taken a turn for the worse lately, very embittered and sullen and from experience, it never ends well.
It made this place very sane. We had instances of posters actually meeting off-board to "settle matters". One poster pulled a cheap shot move once and ratted on another poster to that poster's employer and got him the sack. There were all kinds of legal threats flung about, you name it. It got especially heated when the the countries would play each other in the Rugby matches like World Cups, Summer tours etc you'd have all the posters from New Zealand say battling the South African posters on threads that would descend into appalling s**t fights. You can imagine what the threads were like when Ireland played England each year....Bans were handed out on a daily basis.
People who have never modded have no idea of what kind of crap Mods have to put up with off-board. The personal messages and emails from deluded and borderline lunatic posters.
UT was right to bring the banhammer to I50, he had taken a turn for the worse lately, very embittered and sullen and from experience, it never ends well.