OliverB
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 2:52 pm
Since he's decided to make a very public display of discontent, I suppose I had better explain to everyone what has upset the poor little dear.
As I'm sure you've all seen, he does seem to have a very scattergun approach to posting and, to date, has resurrected long dead threads, created new threads where there was no real need (and in nearly every case, no real interest) and several times posted irrelevant waffle to threads which have a very clear subject stated in the topic title.
This is above and beyond his initial attempt to post to every topic possible and then change his avatar to the Oliver Bonas logo and his signature to clear promotional links to their website. This resulted in a complaint to me from one of our members and i removed the avatar and signature and replaced it with a succinct "Please do not advertise on this forum". This doesn't seem to be enough of a warning and he's been posting avidly about how we should all migrate our forum to a platform that uses advertising to fund it. I've responded several times that this isn't in the ethos of this forum nor is it something that Ed needs or would want.
As you are all aware, this week has been quite busy for me with work on the forum and, on top of this, i've had to move blatantly irrelevant posts from OliverB to different threads. I have previously tried PMing him to ask what his game is and he has not even bothered reading those PMs so I've deleted them after a couple of days of it being clear he's not going to read them. Finally, yesterday i issued a forum warning to him out of desperation. I have never before issued a warning to anyone.
It read: "This is the second time in a week where I have had to move your posts to more appropriate threads. If you continue to show poor thread discipline and treat this forum as your own personal monologue, i will move you back to being continuously moderated." and was after I moved this post: viewtopic.php?p=177362#p177362 from the "Assessing our squad" thread to where it is now. What that post has to do with our squad i have no idea.
Last night, poor OliverB was obviously so butthurt that in a fit of incredibly childish pique he edited every one of his 69 messages with the same post as he posted here: viewtopic.php?p=177387#p177387
I've since restored all the original posts. I believe the bollocks about the Glazers is in response to this reply i made to one of his posts: viewtopic.php?p=177360#p177360
The thing is, OliverB, it's a discussion thread in a forum. If you don't like what people say in response to your posts, you have every opportunity to argue your case or clarify what you mean. Instead you just seem to ignore responses and carry on scattergunning. I have not banned you and you are welcome to keep posting here although I wonder whether you will now you have shown yourself to be a bit of a twat. Perhaps you can reflect on whether you and this forum are a good fit.
As I'm sure you've all seen, he does seem to have a very scattergun approach to posting and, to date, has resurrected long dead threads, created new threads where there was no real need (and in nearly every case, no real interest) and several times posted irrelevant waffle to threads which have a very clear subject stated in the topic title.
This is above and beyond his initial attempt to post to every topic possible and then change his avatar to the Oliver Bonas logo and his signature to clear promotional links to their website. This resulted in a complaint to me from one of our members and i removed the avatar and signature and replaced it with a succinct "Please do not advertise on this forum". This doesn't seem to be enough of a warning and he's been posting avidly about how we should all migrate our forum to a platform that uses advertising to fund it. I've responded several times that this isn't in the ethos of this forum nor is it something that Ed needs or would want.
As you are all aware, this week has been quite busy for me with work on the forum and, on top of this, i've had to move blatantly irrelevant posts from OliverB to different threads. I have previously tried PMing him to ask what his game is and he has not even bothered reading those PMs so I've deleted them after a couple of days of it being clear he's not going to read them. Finally, yesterday i issued a forum warning to him out of desperation. I have never before issued a warning to anyone.
It read: "This is the second time in a week where I have had to move your posts to more appropriate threads. If you continue to show poor thread discipline and treat this forum as your own personal monologue, i will move you back to being continuously moderated." and was after I moved this post: viewtopic.php?p=177362#p177362 from the "Assessing our squad" thread to where it is now. What that post has to do with our squad i have no idea.
Last night, poor OliverB was obviously so butthurt that in a fit of incredibly childish pique he edited every one of his 69 messages with the same post as he posted here: viewtopic.php?p=177387#p177387
I've since restored all the original posts. I believe the bollocks about the Glazers is in response to this reply i made to one of his posts: viewtopic.php?p=177360#p177360
The thing is, OliverB, it's a discussion thread in a forum. If you don't like what people say in response to your posts, you have every opportunity to argue your case or clarify what you mean. Instead you just seem to ignore responses and carry on scattergunning. I have not banned you and you are welcome to keep posting here although I wonder whether you will now you have shown yourself to be a bit of a twat. Perhaps you can reflect on whether you and this forum are a good fit.