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fed up of multiple users...

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  • #52
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Gillespy wrote: »
    I was accused of being one of these people. Needless to say, nothing came of it. I haven't received anything from a mod or admin. Accusing new members of being such people for no good reason is more of a problem than this I suggest.

    Were you asked if you were a multiple username member or accused?

    There is a major difference in my view.

    Nothing wrong with a Mod sending you a PM to ask - don't feel offended by it. We have to do it to many new regs. We have good reason for it - it's to prevent multiple username regs.

    At the end of the day, noone should have a chip on their shoulder because of a Mod's action. If you have an issue with a Mod, pm them and you will be assured of a reply.

    Also important for people to note that when we moderate, we're mods. when we contribute to threads we're ordinary contributors just giving our view - like you. So many people reply to my personal posts in a manner which suggests that they are trying to get one up on a mod.

    We're the same as the rest of ye but we clean up the reported posts in our spare time. As I have said in the past, it's an anomyous internet forum - no need to take it too seriously.


  • #53
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    i asked this before but if you block someone do they know you have them blocked and can a pm be sent to you by someone you have blocked iykwim

    They don't know that you have blocked them - however PM's can pass either way between ye.


  • #54
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Don't know Rovi, I got a two week ban (I think) back a couple of years ago. This was on Adverts.ie, which I believe is the same organisation? Any way, I bid on a cycling jacket and then PM'ed the seller to arrange payment, and management jumped on me right away for my communications. Of course I hadn't read all the rules in the forum and thought it was like ebay. So not convinced.

    Adverts and Boards are owned by the one company, but they have different rules and privacy policies - at least they did 2 years ago. I imagine it's possible for the management of boards and adverts to see that you are sending pm's and the amount that you send, but i doubt the content just flashes up on their screens.


  • #55
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Relig,

    If a poster comments on your personal circumstance or a family members hinting that they have Sussed your identity, is there a sanction if reported?

    What is such sanction?


  • #56
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    delaval wrote: »
    Relig,

    If a poster comments on your personal circumstance or a family members hinting that they have Sussed your identity, is there a sanction if reported?

    What is such sanction?

    When you first signed up you agreed to this:
    We expect you to act responsibly in posting Material on Boards.ie. You agree, through use of this service, NOT to use boards.ie to:

    - defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others
    - identify or speculate as to the identity of any anonymous or pseudonymous user

    along with many other rules.

    If they are broken, you can be banned from that particular forum by a Mod or the whole site by Admin.


  • #57
    Gillespy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    reilig wrote: »
    Were you asked if you were a multiple username member or accused?

    There is a major difference in my view.

    I don't know how you'd define it exactly and it wasn't a mod, just an ordinary member. I thought nothing of it, when you resort to that you know you have them on the back foot.

    I may or may not be a re-reg. That is no one's business. I don't hold and post with multiply accounts though.


  • #58
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Don't know Rovi, I got a two week ban (I think) back a couple of years ago. This was on Adverts.ie, which I believe is the same organisation? Any way, I bid on a cycling jacket and then PM'ed the seller to arrange payment, and management jumped on me right away for my communications. Of course I hadn't read all the rules in the forum and thought it was like ebay. So not convinced.
    I don't know if or how the Adverts system might differ from Boards, but might the recipient of your PM have reported it, do you think?
    If you report a PM here on Boards, a thread is created in one of the (super seekret!) admin forums where it is visible to the admins so that they can deal with whatever the issue is.
    That's the only 'standard' way around here for anyone other that the sender or recipient of a PM to see it.


  • #59
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    TBH I find that of the form on boards that I use that FF is light touch regulated. Yes a bit of argy bargy can go on now and again but we are big boys and should take thing in our stride. The same happen in a pub or a work tea club you have to roll with the punches. I think that the 2 or 3 who have re-registered are quite open about it and what ever caused the re-reg it is there own business. There are some great contributors here.

    Life is too short to be worrying about the small things. Came across this story years ago it put it all in perpective

    http://www.sunnyskyz.com/feel-good-story/111/A-teacher-s-life-lessons-using-a-jar-and-some-golf-balls


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