Warning in the Rugby Forum

Dempsey

Joe the Santa wrote:

Dear Dempsey,

You have received a warning at boards.ie. This is an automatically generated message.

Reason:

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Breach of Peace

Don't respond to posts report them instead

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Original Post:
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DylanJM wrote: »

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/couple

Couple: Two people or things of the same sort considered together



Sorry feeling a bit cheeky tonight. :pac:

:facepalm

3 informal an indefinite small number
:[as pronoun] :
he hoped she’d be better in a couple of days
we got some eggs — would you like a couple?

I question your interpretation of the english language

All the best,
boards.ie

I believe this warning to be harsh but the moderator stands by his decision when we discussed it via PM

This is the thread in question

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056370517

We didnt troll each other, there wasnt any flaming and the thread stayed on topic yet I 'breached the peace'.

I would like a CMOD to review this please.

justsomebloke

With the World Cup coming up we have had many band wagon posters joining the forum, with many attacking each other i.e. the post and not the posters and in a good few threads we have had to remind people of this, so although it hadn't been specifically outlined on this thread it should be common knowledge not to attack other posters.

The run of the conversation was

tolosenc wrote: »

Yes, couple means 2. In the last 24 months, we have been awful. In fact, we were awful in the 2009 6N.

Dempsey wrote: »

Couple means two years?? Thats news to me, must let the oxford dictionary know too.

DylanJM wrote: »

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/couple
Couple: Two people or things of the same sort considered together
Sorry feeling a bit cheeky tonight. :pac:

DylanJM wrote: »

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/couple

Couple: Two people or things of the same sort considered together

Dempsey wrote:

sorry feeling a bit cheeky tonight. :pac:

:facepalm

3 informal an indefinite small number
:[as pronoun] :
he hoped she’d be better in a couple of days
we got some eggs — would you like a couple?

I question your interpretation of the english language

As a result I infracted both DylanJM and Dempsey for trying to derail the thread and having small pop shots at each other,

For Dempsey it was the comments

Dempsey wrote: »

Couple means two years?? Thats news to me, must let the oxford dictionary know too.

and

Dempsey wrote:

I question your interpretation of the english language

that made me feel that he was having sly digs at other posters and seen as though warning have been put on other threads to stop, I felt that I once again didn't need to reiterate it and so infracted both users

Dempsey

I'm not a bandwagon poster or whatever pigeon hole you are trying to use there, I've been posting in the rugby forum for quite a while.

The thread wasnt derailed, me & DylanJM said our piece and left it at that

I just pointed out the meaning of a word that they were obviously using wrong.

justsomebloke

Dempsey wrote: »

I'm not a bandwagon poster or whatever pigeon hole you are trying to use there, I've been posting in the rugby forum for quite a while.

I never suggested that you were, I stated that due to the amount of new people that usually don't post in the Rugby forum posting there due to the world cup, the amount of people attacking posters instead of posts has gone up considerably

Dempsey wrote: »

I just pointed out the meaning of a word that they were obviously using wrong.

and I didn't infract you for that, I infracted you for what I saw as sly smart comments that where directed at other posters in an attempt to get a rise out of them

Dempsey

Joe the Santa wrote: »

I never suggested that you were, I stated that due to the amount of new people that usually don't post in the Rugby forum posting there due to the world cup, the amount of people attacking posters instead of posts has gone up considerably



and I didn't infract you for that, I infracted you for what I saw as sly smart comments that where directed at other posters in an attempt to get a rise out of them

My comment wasnt an attempt to troll, it was correcting someone and there is only so many ways you can do that. The other poster didnt see it as trolling, as you can see from his reply to the post. There was no attempt to derail the thread just posts clarifying what 'couple' meant.

oscarBravo

This is a conversation that should have taken place by PM prior to starting a thread here. The DRP is for CMod intervention once you have failed to reach a resolution by PM.

Please leave the issue for a Sports CMod to deal with. Joe, for future reference, please don't post in a DRP thread until you're invited to do so by a CMod or Admin, cheers.

Dempsey

We did discuss this via PM (I said this in the OP) and it ended with me asking to have it reviewed by CMod's and Joe pointed me to this forum and I posted here.

Khannie

I'll have a look today.

Khannie

Apologies. Didn't get to this today. Should have time tomorrow.

Khannie

This one is close enough to the borderline. I think the tone of the post is more than one of just correcting someone as you put it though. I think a yellow card (which is very mild, even in the context of the Rugby forum charter rules on infractions) is justified.