ZFC banned?

Nope, just pretty sure he repeatedly broke rule one...

Report them then

Bringing the law into is laughable. If I dutch ovened my girlfriend I'd expect to spend the night on the sofa for breaching the "Do not fart under the covers and then stick Sarah's head under the covers" rule. He signed up to the forum with the rules in place and broke them repeatedly. Move along.

Am I stupid? That is just your opinion. Am I offended by your opinion? Shall I report you for having an opinion? Should you be banned for your opinion?

Just saying................

I reckon the crowd for the next home game will be 19,365. Thought I'd better put something Roves related into the post before some muppets start to sent anonymous complaints to the Mods.

Ha, ha.......The personal insults are building up. You have no argument do you?

Why do you keep banging on about taking offence? Taking offence is completely irrelevant. You incorrectly cited the power of free speech and stated that it was a misunderstood concept whilst clearly demonstrating that it is a concept which you yourself have misunderstood.

You were talking about things being against the law - which is completely irrelevant - then said if I say a "homo" should "burn" that's your right of free speech and not against the law; but it is - doing it in any public or private place (other than a dwelling house) could cause you to be guilty of, at least, affray.

Have you taken offence to this? ... because that's still irrelevant.

Hey ... I hope Mildenhall isn't out for too long. Wonder if we'll get that new striker in this week. It's the midfield not creating enough chances I worry about.

Sorry but I'm genuinely not sure what it is you're getting at here.

From my point of view - I reluctantly agree with the decision taken (which I think is the case for all of us really).  No one wants to ban anyone and in general we use a light touch except in issues where we are concerned that there might be legal implications to things that people have written.  When it comes to the 'rough and tumble' of message board posting I think all mods would rather less abuse was thrown around and more posters respected each other because ultimately it's a waste of time abusing someone on a message board, it creates a bad atmosphere and it spoils threads.  However, in general we prefer this to police itself.  We only step in if we think it is consistently spoiling threads or if we are getting a lot of complaints from people.

Ultimately with ZFC it was an issue of engaging - he didn't seem to be interested in engaging with the topics on the board anymore and was just bringing everything back to the same things (which has nothing to do with Rovers or football in general) whenever the vaguest opportunity presented itself.  Again, I think it's about persistent behaviour.  Obviously the odd thread will drift into other territory but the difference is between the conversation naturally going that way (like some conversations around the stadium sometimes becoming discussions about planning law or local politics etc) and there'll be the odd throw away comment here and there which is generally fine. What isn't fine is persistently crow-barring in the same topic over and over again that has nothing to do with the topic thread and seems to have no other motive other than to provoke.  In the past we have warned and suspended other people for behaving like this but in general either they stopped posting or amended what they were doing - this is the first time we've felt we had to ban someone I think and it's because it makes the message board dysfunctional and unpleasant. Most of his posts since the Current Affairs forum closed either involved posting off topic provocative messages or abusing people who called him on it.  It felt like he was just disrupting threads at any opportunity in order to prove a point. He was repeatedly warned and carried on doing it -so it's not as though he hasn't been warned and it's not as though he was banned at the drop of a hat; it was done very reluctantly.  I found it childish more than anything else.

Also I agree with pretty much everything Cheshire has just said re; the purpose of the board.

time to lockt he thread?

Terry,

I agree with most of what you say.

However, I have to point out the hypocracy of some on here. This forum, and the previous forum that spawned this one, were the main shouting places used to attack the board of BRFC when the guy was banned from the Mem. The language and vitriol directed at the board was extremely hostile, and still is whenever the subject resurfaces.
Now, a section of people on this forum are acting the same as the board. Getting someone banned from something because they didn't like what he was saying.

Just because some people complain about something, it doesn't mean they are right. Banning someone based on what other people 'think'? You've opened Pandora's Box there.