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Soccer Forum Annoucement - Permbanned Users

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  • 29-04-2009 5:55pm
    #1
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭


    We are beginning the process of reviewing those who are permbanned from the soccer forum.

    This process will allow them to make a case to us (the soccer mods) privately for consideration for re-entry into the forum.

    This amnesty is only for those who are PERMBANNED from the forum, those on 6 month bans will not be considered.

    The process will begin with those who wish to regain access to soccer identifying themselves and making their case for reinstatement.

    Such users should PM me with details on the incident surrounding their banning and a statement for consideration while we review the case.

    This PM will be posted for review by the soccer mods (and in some cases the admins) so be sure you're happy to have the PM viewed by this group.

    Once the review is completed , we will notify those successful either by PM or a post in the Soccer Access Request forum (a follow up to the cross post below) and post details of the next stage then.

    We expect the review to be completed by June 1st.

    Cross posted from http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055551224
    Post edited by Shield on


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    #2
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    While I don;t post in any sport forums aside from cycling I must say this seems pretty damn fair to any users who have been permabanned.


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    #3
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    I don't post there often but It's a good call from the mods and admins as some of the bans I've seen there have been ridiculous.


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    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Great call lads, shows fairness from the boys and girls in the forum.

    Shame about the cross posting though, seen as its a sitebannable offense :P


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    #5
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    They either deserved their bans or didn't. If they were rightly banned they should be left so.


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    #6
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    nipplenuts wrote: »
    They either deserved their bans or didn't. If they were rightly banned they should be left so.

    They deserved bans.

    However, we now have a system which doesn't really deal in perm bans (at least not in the first season) so it is pretty harsh to leave them a victim of the old system. Everyone else got amnesty last summer, so why not these guys?

    We'll review their cases and decide on whether we'll allow them apply to soccer again.


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    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Anyway, its good for some people to be reconsidered a few years down the line. Some people deserved the ban, but might have copped on a lot and grown up to rejoin the community as decent posters.


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    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    ..should have increased that from 6 months to 5 years..

    i think its safe to say 5 years is long enough to change ones life and grow up a little.

    Im constantly bemused as to why there is so much hassle in running a sports forum and why people cant talk football without getting into some sort of twist about a football team and end up getting banned.

    Would i be correct in saying that the soccer forum has a higher ban rate than 90% of other forums here?


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    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    snyper wrote: »
    Would i be correct in saying that the soccer forum has a higher ban rate than 90% of other forums here?

    Ban per traffic? Probably not.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    snyper wrote: »
    Im constantly bemused as to why there is so much hassle in running a sports forum and why people cant talk football without getting into some sort of twist about a football team and end up getting banned.

    I don't know what it is about football but it seems to turn grown men into idiots.


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    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    Sully wrote: »
    Shame about the cross posting though, seen as its a sitebannable offense :P

    Tell you what, you notify the admins about GuanYins spam, then ill notify them about you breaking the signature rules :D


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    #12
    therecklessone
    Registered Users Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    It would be great if we could just leave this thread to do its job, i.e. help spread the word for permabanned posters so they avail of the opportunity if they wish, rather than see it as an opportunity to discuss moderation, or get sly little digs in at football fans.

    kthxbye


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    therecklessone wrote: »
    It would be great if we could just leave this thread to do its job, i.e. help spread the word for permabanned posters so they avail of the opportunity if they wish, rather than see it as an opportunity to discuss moderation, or get sly little digs in at football fans.

    kthxbye

    And by bumping it up to the top of the page and keeping it on the first page we are helping to spread the word. Are we not?


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    #14
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    turgon wrote: »
    Tell you what, you notify the admins about GuanYins spam, then ill notify them about you breaking the signature rules :D

    Whats wrong with me sig?!


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    #15
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    therecklessone wrote: »
    rather than see it as an opportunity to discuss moderation, or get sly little digs in at football fans.

    kthxbye

    Ive no problem with the moderating

    Im an avid football fan as opposed to a fanboy. My comments are based on observing the hassle that is created by fans that take things too serious.


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    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 54,359 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    great idea


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    #17
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    If I get banned in the next day or two can I avail of this system?


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    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,350 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    If I get banned in the next day or two can I avail of this system?

    What do you think?


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    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    nipplenuts wrote: »
    They either deserved their bans or didn't. If they were rightly banned they should be left so.

    Probably wont be to long till we see people banded from other forums looking for the same thing.

    Rules are there for a reason


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    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    snyper wrote: »

    Im constantly bemused as to why there is so much hassle in running a sports forum and why people cant talk football without getting into some sort of twist about a football team and end up getting banned.

    Even more weird, is the fact that most Irish football fans seem to get on okish, even rivals, but the lion's share of hassle seems to erupt over extreme geographic rivalries mostly emanating by people who are not from, and have rarely even visited, those geographic locales. :D

    Good call on the 'amnesty', btw. Fair play.


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    #21
    therecklessone
    Registered Users Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    kearnsr wrote: »
    Probably wont be to long till we see people banded from other forums looking for the same thing.

    Rules are there for a reason

    What people want and what people get on boards are often two very separate things.

    Rules are there for a reason, that is correct. They are decided by the forum mods, and applied by them as well. In this case, we as mods are prepared to listen to posters who may wish to regain access, based on their approach to that we may or may not grant that access.

    There are plenty of examples of posters having been given second chances on this site, including some who were site banned.


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    #22
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Sounds like the Good Friday agreement of the Soccer Forum


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    #23
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    If I get banned in the next day or two can I avail of this system?

    No.
    I'll make sure it's perm.


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