Bring back Martbowski and stop moderating DiS in a biased fashion whereby people like me and others can get away with abusing people and yet Mart can't.
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True dat.
here's a fact about fishplums:
I hear that he's quite tall, yet on the internet I'd always imagined him being short.
That's true.
He's also a bellend.
if i call you a bellend
will i get barred?
I'm not sure! Try and find out!
You live in Fratton!
My god that place is a shithole. It is literally my least favourite place in the whole world.
I live in Islington.
Aha
Just down the road from me (on the side of the border I can't afford). How lucky you are.
* caledonian road
:D
your..
well posh then.
I live in finsbury. We have stabbings on our road. HARDCORE.
I want to move.
.
Fratton >>>>>> Paulsgrove
Apparantly i live in southsea
but its basicly fratton
All of those >>> Stamshaw
That's all I know
hmmmm
I'm marginally concerned that i might be outside the bellend baptizing elite
you are such a bellend
can i call you a bellend?
...
http://elgammy.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/ED_anatomy.jpg
you can call me whatever you want sweetheart
do you mind if i stick to rich?
I do mind actually
I don't want to be called Rich anymore. I want to be called Richard. Please call me Richard.
you can call me al
if you so wish
Andrew Cole?
pmsl!
a huge bellend in fact
like the liberty bell.
i'll liberate your bell!
Are you proposing we all get away with insulting people
or that none of us do, in which case surely a bunch of us get banned and Mart stays banned...
I'm proposing
that there's some sort of equality here, rather than this ludicrously lopsided attitude to moderation, simply because Mart has never been part of the inner social circle of DiS in real life.
If Brainlove had been exactly the same, but never met any of us, he would have been banned by now.
The same with me.
i certainly dont see why
the katekamikaze thing was a justification for banning. that was a megajoke. i also dont see why he was banned this time.
yes he's an irritating prick, but so are a number of people. ban the tories before you ban the pricks.
Bloody Commie
katekamikaze wasn't used as a reason to ban him
it was used as a reason to claim everyone should just get over themselves and stop being so fucking sensitive.
Then he had a go at wishpig or something that people liked loads and Colin said it was about time he was banned.
That's how I remember it, anyway.
I don't think Brainlove ever acted in that way, though?
He's often, like you, guilty of a quick flash of anger response that inflames things, but Mart was banned for just being an out and out prick to people, surely?
No one's an out and out prick to people on here are they?
oh bellend
But Martbowski is good at being a cunt
and in my opinion deserves to banned. You try hard to be a wanker, you just aren't very good at it.
Quite right.
Half right.
It's the old circlejerk thing.
I know people on DiS in real life but never been part of the inner circle. Nor, to be quite honest, do I want to be. I'd like to think my social life extends beyond one website. In a lot of ways, it's no better than an old boy's club.
I'm okay
with you being barred too.
You should be barred for this comment
if Mart was banned as well.
I'm okay
with that too.
Good good.
I think it's coz Mart's annoying
and not funny to balance it out. I've never noticed much of a positive contribution.
Anyway, Fratton is not Southsea and both are WONDERFUL. Southsea is the best.
Bellend is one of the best words ever
And I like Fishplums.
^
POINT AND LAUGH
Oh come on...
...I'm a die hard PFC fan, but Fratton is NOT wonderful.
Fratton PARK is wonderful, but can you seriously tell me that Fratton is a wonderful place?
I'm trying to remember the road names
that almost made a poem: JESSE told PERCY to mind his MANNERS while he TELEPHONEd the ORCHARD. Amazing. Also, the Fawcett Inn. Need I say more?
It's all about the Artillery Arms, yo.
The only redeeming feature
of Fratton is the fact that I was born there. The only redeeming fact of Paulsgrove is that I used to live near there. Southsea is nice though.
mart needs time away
to come up with some new material. he was getting incredibly boring by the end.
he was boring
at the start too.
^^^ This
and in the middle
probably
the first days i thought: how can we go on without martbowski?
later: it isn't all that bad but i didn find him amusing
now: there is too much peace and love here. i volunteer to take some of his bile if he comes back.
why are we still talking about this, why
Oh for fuck's sake...
I'm in no way part of (or even know very many of) the "inner circle" but I'm well aware this is bollocks.
Martbowski abused people constantly and in a pretty boring and tedious way. I didn't especially want him to be banned (nor care that he was either) but to claim that you (i.e. Crablin) and Martbowski abuse people in the same way is complete and utter shite.
As much as I am not up for people 'abusing' others, it's still a pretty fucked form of censorship on
conservative bollocks or what.... Bring Mart Back, I say.....
^^^
Totally true!
Crablin is.. what. Pesky?
Mart was a vindictive, anti-social tosser.
Err. yeah... let's have a look at all the lovely bits and pieces said about me
over the years during Ayatollah Crablin's regime eh? Did he get banned? No. Do I care now? No.
Whatever - let it be said - censorship is censorship and I am not an advocate of it... I think banning Mart is utterly ridiculous... ALMOST as bad as banning poor on_tha_run who - what - couldn't spell?
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus...
what the fuck?
if you have a go at someone on here, it's usually because you have a problem with them in real life. i.e. Tristan.
when Mart did it, he did it at random and it was relentless and never-ending. apart from brief interludes to talk about wrestling, he never really talked about anything positive.
in short, get bent.
I have a problem with you in real life, you bellend.
Plus, I've never met wrightylew or any of that ilk that I berate.
You're chicken-shit and can't bring yourself to ban anyone unless your adoring DiS public veto it through. Grow some balls you backstabbing, two-faced cunt.
This is all very confusing and vaguely upsetting...
and could be taken up in private without the need of drawing the attention of everyone else
Don't be upset Theo, he's not shouting at you
Crablin, fancy talking to Fishplums in private?
Nah not really.
Yep
People who insist on airing grievances with people in public are pathetic twats, basically.
Don't bump it thennnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
I find it blankening - that means I don't care but surely it's the wrong place for Crablin to say such things.
That aside I'm with Fishplums on the banning thing. Mart was erratic, nasty, cruel and 99% a negative poster. It was time for him to go. No one else has been as bad. Not even Kristy RIP.
Crablin is usually alright. I think these guys put too much weight on DiS too. Adoring public tsk!
That's a very sensible argument I agree with
although I've unfortunately bumped in order to say that.
i miss Kristy
she was funny.
This^
There is too much desperation on DiS. A lot of People on here are constantly striving for acceptance from the likes of Guntrip (ooh look, he's got 30,000 posts i must get him to like me then i'll be accepted).
IT's got a real mob-rule to it and I hate that. Too many people hunt in packs on here.
people want acceptance from me?
really?
REALLY?
It'll be
a cold day in hell before I crave your acceptance.
Wow, only 133 posts left...
you were totally wrong
about me getting there before i went to reading.
I know I do.
We've barely ever spoken in real life and this saddens me.
Of course, in fairness we've barely ever been in the same room...
yes!
you're so clever and smart, but more importantly have 30 000 posts. almost. though i might prefer lyle.
Acceptance from Guntrip?!?!
Piss off! Look who started the my favourite DiSer list, Jesus.
You're just annoyed because you weren't on it!
We live near eachother though, so that gets you extra points. YOu may well be added to the list later.
i think there's something in it
after all, the first time we met you did buy me a sambuca :D
Did I?!
oh god yes.. I think I bought qite a few people sambucca's... although obviously yours was the most special.
probably the most least threatening
mob in history
have you seen the new kaiser cheifs video?
no
should I?
Is Colin trying to force mr m oderator to either ban him or bring by Mart, by any chance?
Mart was a vindictive little shit. This place reeeallly is no worse at all for lacking the random streams of abuse directed at whoever he hadn't taken a shine to that day. It got to the point with me where it was beyond a joke, he was actually trying to fuck with my head.
*bring back
aww you seriously weren't affected by all that twaddle?
Mart tried it on me. He used to be fond of the odd obnoxious PM. I wasn't bothered though because I don't know him and vice versa. He wasn't a contributor to DiS and anyone who delighted in his posts on here and general malicious behaviour has clearly already had their head fucked up long ago.
Moderation on here has always been biased. I've just noticed a quicker response to obnoxious posters with regards to banning.
I thought Crablin was the in crowd of DiS or something anyway. Really no idea. End.
it makes sense that if a mod
doesnt like someone, then they would pounce on the chance to ban them. I found Mart funny, you just needed to not give a shit what he said.
nah he posted too much to avoid him
every thread blah blah blah pretty adjective?
Still he had his moments of...wait no he didn't EVER. Biggest bugbear of mine is internet forum worship. I am not netted up enough to understand that shit.
I agree with Particide.
Although, I have a slightly bigger bugbear about litter.
I thought he was boring
inane teenage humour and meanness. Let him back when he gets through puberty.
there's an 'in crowd' in DiS? lol...
meh, abuse is not cool, but no one seems to look at the wider issue of censorship! whatever happened to freedom of speech here???!!
this is coming from someone who has been the subject of many a thread or post of abuse...
meh.
well,
it's already been discussed on many occasions but these forums aren't strictly a public space and the way the forum works, it doesn't take much for one person to come along and fuck it up.
if they want Mart and a handful of his supporters
to be the only people using these forums then I'm all for Freedom of speech. It's what separates us from the animals.
would you defend
a school bully's 'freedom of speech'?
woah woah woah... the Thought Police have arrived....
(runs)...
Look - I've been subjected to his abuse... several times... and by other people's abuse.... and I admit I haven't liked it.
BUT - this is THE INTERNET and it's FREE for people to join this message board - it is a public space... where did that ever come into question... the day we start paying ot subscribe to this board, then perhaps we will have something to honestly complain about.
There are a plethora of other users who were banned - for what? For nothing, really... Fake identies? Big deal.
I feel strongly about issues of censorship... and don't subscribe to it - period. I have always felt that way and while I think Mart behaved like a right royal shit, I still dont' agree with 'banning' someone from a FREE, PUBLIC, MESSAGE BOARD.
and moderators are for???
message boards aren't a public space
they are owned and have rules governing there use, admitedly DiS doesn't have any set out rules but I think people with common sense not what is acceptable, sometimes it can be funny sometimes it is not and I think when people cross the line banning is ok