Offensive new members

Harper said:

There have been a couple of offensive new members attacking threads on
this forum. Please do not respond to their posts. The moderators will
not remove the threads unless they are spam or have been started with
offensive intent and are not unicycling related. The reported threads
all have unicycling content and the moderators will not remove
individual posts from the threads. The administrator will deal with
the problem eventually.

Usually, kids like these get bored quickly because they have very
brief attention spans. They will probably find some other equally
non-productive and childish mischief soon.

One of the advantages of this newsgroup (as opposed to some newfangled forum
thingy ;-)) is that killfiling is easy.

Scott Kurland said:

*One of the advantages of this newsgroup (as opposed to some
newfangled forum
thingy ;-)) is that killfiling is easy.*

It's just as easy to set those users to be ignored and not shown to you
on the web based forums.

In any case, I have banned this person which was posting under the names
TheOrignalClart and Grogboy and made it where he can't post from his
accounts (if he did end up to get past the ban). I have also deleted all
posts by both these usernames.

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Thanks Gilby!

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Your kids can safely surf the site again. I am sure they will pick it
up somewhere, but at least it won't be here.🙂

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Yeah! Thanks a bunch gilby!

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"Gilby" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

TheOrignalClart and Grogboy

I have also deleted all > posts by both these usernames.

Good move, but to my regret I still can see posts from both of them under
threads like:

who likes me
anit-unicycle townies
a song by weird al....

However if they manage to post no more that will be nearly as good Thanks
again

They appear to be unicyclists but I would be happy to give them that extra
wheel..........somewhere.
I suspect that no activity these days is ever free from these no-brains, and
they will seek to demonstrate this, as only they can do, at any opportunity.
They don't annoy me, I just wonder how little actually happens in their
heads, it intrigues me just how different two examples of the same species
can be. Do they actually know, I wonder, how thick and stupid they seem to
the rest of us?

Naomi ;-(

Thank you Gilby!

I was thinking about it today, and saw it a different way.
That Grogboy allegedly tried to learn and failed - and then like some
envious ex-girlfriend, he stalked us and harrassed us.
He heckled us the same way some people heckle celebrities!
I see his jealousy as a compliment.

Just imagine how much you would have to *care* to join a forum
for a sport you can't do, spend time opening accounts, reading
threads and harrassing members - without the benefits of learning
from others (like the true members do). The fact that he worked
so hard at it - only shows that he cared *that* much . . .

I, for one, am flattered . . . :p

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I hope that I do not fall under this category of offensive new comers...

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Gilby said:

*

It's just as easy to set those users to be ignored and not shown to
you on the web based forums.

*

ah,no its not.the ignore feature hasnt worked for several months.there
isnt even a ignore buttom anymore..

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forget_your_life said:

*ah,no its not.the ignore feature hasnt worked for several
months.there isnt even a ignore buttom anymore.. *

I can't say for sure if it works but it's there:

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digitalattrition said:

*I hope that I do not fall under this category of offensive new
comers... *

Not at all. Welcome and enjoy.

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forget_your_life said:

*ah,no its not.the ignore feature hasnt worked for several
months.there isnt even a ignore buttom anymore.. *

Yup, now I remeber that I removed that feature: http://tinyurl.com/2rc5v

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Naomi said:

*They appear to be unicyclists but I would be happy to give them
that extra
wheel..........somewhere.*

Thanks alot Gilby!
And no, they were not unicyclists! They both go to my school, and ment
to be my 'mates'. Oh well.... at least they are now gone!

Thanks again.

Joe,

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Anybody notice how some of these newbies speak without periods and they
use bad grammer alot once I was looking at a theard and I saw all these
typos oh my god I hate typos jeez I wish they would use periods did
anybody else notice this or am I dumb

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I DIDN NOTIC ANYTHIN RONG WIH THE POS AT ALL I THOT THE GRAMER AND
PUNCATION WAS JUS FIN E JEEZ DO U HV TO BE SO PICKY

Ender said:

*Anybody notice how some of these newbies speak without periods and
they use bad grammer alot once I was looking at a theard and I saw
all these typos oh my god I hate typos jeez I wish they would use
periods did anybody else notice this or am I dumb *

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Ender said:

*Anybody notice how some of these newbies speak without periods and
they use bad grammer alot once I was looking at a theard and I saw
all these typos oh my god I hate typos jeez I wish they would use
periods did anybody else notice this or am I dumb *

Yes, I agree, proper punctuation is very nice. The correct use of commas
and periods made reading someone else's post much more pleasant. And
yet... (insert major sarcasm)

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ChangingLINKS.com said:

*I, for one, am flattered . . . :p *

You are a better man than I. From what I read, this boy Scott was mostly
trying to be annoying to his schoolmate (not mate) Joe. He didn't care a
whit about the rest of us. Give him a can of spray paint instead, and
he'd probably make his whole neighborhood look like a slum.

For us community members, the correct thing to do is ignore him (and
block him). If it were a *local* community thing, like physical
neighbors, I think more drastic steps would be appropriate.

But definitely, as mscalisi said, if trolls come along, we should not
feed them. It's worse than replying to spam posts that find their way in
here. Pretend the person is on the same street corner with you. Would
they deserve a (civil) response then, or would you walk away?

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Rayden said:

Yes, I agree, proper punctuation is very nice. The correct use of commas
and periods made reading someone else's post much more pleasant

....to say the least.

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Eats, shoots and leaves.

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Klaas Bil said:

*Eats shoots and leaves.
Eats, shoots and leaves.
*

Actually, Strunk & White would say:

Eats, shoots, and leaves.

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