Happy to but I am not the one making baseless accusations.
āYeah but, no butā¦ā
I thought I had this on mute so was surprised it popped up.
Back on mute 
I know - but I think we just need to reset a bit
You and Baz cannot communicate without going at each other and neither of you can back down
Me, after a while I get bored and instead go highlight how slow @BTripz footie feed is or something
2 Likes
Baz hasnāt had a debate that didnāt descend into this with anyone, ever. In fact, the only row heās had that had a good outcome was the one he had with me before this place started. Itās less āme and Bazā and more āBaz and anyone that disagrees with himā. This thread is a fine example
As for UnbelievableNumberOfBanningsAndUsernames,worse deal than Barry from a modās perspective. The man has spent a professional lifetime of trying to herd much brighter people into doing his business and clearly knows how to game the system when talent wonāt do it.
I am surprised about his anti-ban stance yesterday, when heās put me in a a āhe goes or I goā situations, demanding the banning of another poster. That poster is still here. He has also demanded the anonymisation of his account, threatened to grass us up to both the police and TellMama (on account of the poster he wanted banning). Heās another one that canāt just have a disagreement without a fallout.
You and I have disagreed on much for years. Weāve called each other out on it, particularly if either of us are being stupidly partisan, and we havenāt fell out. So it can be done.
Iām not saying Iām not a cunt, or not provocative - but I do try to get on with people. Even on this thread, Iāve tried to give good faith answers on most of the questions being posed.
When was the last time either of these two gentlemen got it with any other poster on any forum and it ended well?
Glad to see you decided to try to calm it down @pap.
You trying to provoke me into some sort of response you can ban me for?
The post above, as with many of your diatribes, mean nothing without context.
Iām perfectly calm, dude.
Earlier I said people should think about what they post and why theyāre posting it.
I posted that to remind people that there are those that post in good faith, and there are those that are mostly out to troll.
The context is that any other mod would have banned you years ago, as they did on other places. If I were minded to do it, Iāve got enough evidence from TopicGate alone. If I posted the logs there would be zero complaints.
And yet, youāre still about.
As I said, there are those that post and those that troll. As long as people donāt mistake one for the other, I can live with that.
Iām not even sure what youāre on about with āTopicgateā? Was that when I asked to be anonymised and for my account to be deleted, and you refused, so I started to delete all my posts and threads?
If so, youāve brought that up before, and no-one seemed to care then, either.
Again, context.
Amazing that youāve gone down this road, just because I said you werenāt very good at explaining shit. Your prerogative though.
Weāve discussed TopicGate before. This is the old ground I was referring to. Do you really want a re-cap?
Otherwise, the floor is yours. Provide all the context you need to. Get your kum ba yahs out.
Genuinely not sure what youāre talking about - must have made a more profound impression on you than me.
Sotonians explainer - TopicGate
TopicGate refers to the night a poster, guested at the time, discovered that due to a bug in the system, he was able to delete topics he had created, even while in guest modeSubsequent investigation of the web logs revealed that over an eight hour period, such topics were systematcally deleted, resulting in the removal of thousands of posts from all users of the site.
Fortunately, all posts were restored from a recent backup and the ability to delete topics was removed from the site altogether.
The individual concerned has varied his responses over time. Initally flat out denying the action, when confronted with the logs, claimed that he did not know what he was doing. The present position is that he doesnāt remember it at all, contradicting the logs of the time.
The moderators of the site felt it best not to mention it at the time, given the huge amount of friction it was likely to create with other posters.
Sotonians explainer - TopicGateThatās the one Iām talking about above that no-one gave a fuck about - I just wanted a way to get rid of my posts. Didnāt realise thats what it did though, I thought it just moved it down the long list of threads rather than deleted the whole thread. Doesnāt āOver an 8 hour periodā show you that I was trying to delete the posts one by one. Anyway, youāve mentioned that before - not sure why all the secrecy?
All that post above does is point out your shit dev skills.
I didnāt develop it, was off the shelf. I fixed the issues.
Try and downplay it as much as you like, but donāt invoke the āgood peopleā of this site when you spent eight hours erasing their contributions.
Even if we take your explanation at face value, which I donāt, you spent eight hours just trying to delete your own content. For what reason, exactly? Thatās weird enough in itself.
Anyway, have a think about what you want to be, poster or troll. We can still handle your anonymisation request if thatās what you want.
Yes please, I think my time is untenable here as you clearly donāt want me on the site to call you out on your bullshit. Iāll go the way of the reams of other posters, and mods, who have left because you canāt stand not being right.
Anonymisation please.
Weāve got a month to implement this by law. Weāll probably get it done much earlier - itās a one button function on this forum.
The date has been noted. Iāll speak with the other mods about it and give you time to consider it. In the meantime, given your request, I donāt think itās wise that you continue to contribute.
Iām not doing this immediately because:-
a) you want the shit-storm
b) Iām not having my weekend fucked up over this
c) you changed your mind before when it was clear that we werenāt arsed
Sleep on it and DM the mods if you need to.
Well I for one would like to say two things.
Pap please donāt bring me into your arguments with others using my name when Iām not in conversation to try and further your argument, its not fair, it makes you look like a bully (which I donāt think you are by the way to be evenhanded) and it makes you looks like youāre an intelligence snob also.
Secondly I enjoyed Worzelās input and balanced views, you may not have but I did (I am not going to speak for others) but it would be a real shame if he left
Thatās my input so if you have to speak about me feel free to @ but simply donāt write about me without including me, poor form.
Can we get back to commenting upon the Ukraine invasion and move some of the above to Barryās Island? Would that help?
It wasnāt my call, and wasnāt the first time heās asked.
If someone asks for anonymisation, we are legally required to execute the request within a month. Last time we were threatened with the ICO if we did not comply.
If he wants to withdraw his request, heāll be unsilenced immediately but if he comes back and just uses this place as a platform to prosecute personal vendettas, heāll be quickly gone.
As things stand, the man has asked for his entire content to be anonymised. Iām delaying that to see if cooler heads prevail.
So, Cherts/Worzel has gone / as is going.
One down.
Personally appreciate discourse dialogue and wind ups on the site. Adds flavour.
Never thought for an instant Cherts/Worzel is by any stretch of the imagination the worst poster on this site - we all know this - despite his flouncing off again.
1 Like
The moment that thread was allowed to become about 5 peoples opinions not the horror it was always going to happen.
To have a poster call me a Putin lover, trust me, I almost went full Worzel.
I understand our leader enjoys the banter but as I showed my tourists the reality of the reception centre on Wednesday I came close to going after reading that egotistical bollocks from everyone
I asked them to make an opinion thread so they could score points but noā¦