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ColinB
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 Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:54 pm Post subject: Blanket IP Address Block on BBC R2MB |
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Just out of curiosity, I thought I'd see if I could post over on the BBC R2 MB a few minutes ago.
I thought I'd let you know that despite the fact that I've not posted on any BBC MB for months, I now discover that I cannot post to any of their MBs (and certainly not the R2 board) from my fixed IP address.
I do have a couple of other IPs I can use but it's a pain having to go through switch-over hoops and I can't be bothered.
And still "a certain spamming troll" is allowed to post on the BBC R2MB.
I have never, ever, posted anything as offensive, boring, inciteful or provocative as that person, so one has to ask what is going on here. |
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Gnasty Gnome
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I posted something on there yesterday, Colin, after an absence of many months.
I see the "spamming troll" is still as popular as ever with the moderators, if not with the other MB users. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Gnasty Gnome wrote: | | I posted something on there yesterday, Colin, after an absence of many months. |
Yes, I read it earlier! 
| Gnasty Gnome wrote: | | I see the "spamming troll" is still as popular as ever with the moderators, if not with the other MB users. |
I see lots of threads in which a succession of posts have been removed pending moderation.
Is it all worth the bother? |
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RockitRon
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| Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Is it all worth the bother? |
No.
Such a shame - it's where RockitRon started, and it was brilliant - Music, News & Current Affairs, Coffee Bar, Folk & Acoustic - and there were a lot of good people with interesting things to say.
Most of them disappeared when they clipped its wings the first time (got rid of the N&CA and Coffee Bar, and tightened the "focus" of the Music discussions). Now it's not even a pale shadow, and I have not felt moved to post there for many a month.
The two things which haven't changed are the moderation, which is a bad joke, and the troll. You'd think he/she'd get fed up posting the same stuff for five years or more. At least he's predictable, and he can be spotted a mile away.
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ColinB
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| RockitRon wrote: | | You'd think he/she'd get fed up posting the same stuff for five years or more. |
That's why I assume there to be a deep-seated psychological issue there somewhere. It's obsessive.
Looking yesterday, I noticed that he's moaning (just to wind people up, of course) about Sarah Kennedy's "Show Tunes" saying that it's stuck in the 1940s or whatever. However, this morning's was a mad, silly, completely barmy song from the wonderful "Spamalot"! |
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MadeinSurrey
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I haven't even looked there for such a long time, gave up when they moved the goalposts. They're a waste of time, probably what they want so they can close them - free speech eh?  Heaven forfend that any of us mere licence payers should have the temerity to criticise the Beeb!
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John W
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I was suspended some weeks ago for 'trolling', that's what the mods message said. Yes, me a troll 
I had posted repeatedly about the same issue: Ageism tolerated on the Two News & Views forum.
I suppose me being over 50 I just had to be silenced.
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| John W wrote: | I was suspended some weeks ago for 'trolling', that's what the mods message said. Yes, me a troll
I had posted repeatedly about the same issue: Ageism tolerated on the Two News & Views forum.
I suppose me being over 50 I just had to be silenced. |
Which, of course, begs the question as to why 'you know who' has been allowed to seemingly get away with trolling the board for so long.
Thinks - Wasn't there a pop song some time in the 1970s about this that went something like 'This board aint big enough for the both of us. And it ain't me who's gonna leave!'?!
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