wrong... not a sentence is wrong, but your presumption what I am thinking about idea "what this board is"... useless efforts to think about present - it is as it is...
... here I will leave to you space for to think and to continue.
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Dont let me keep you.
A member of this board has frequently referred to members retarded and slow
I have previously reported one of these posts as inappropriate - but never received any private feedback
So I will now post it in public:
Member: I know that English is not your first language - but you REALLY need to stop using this type of disparaging and offensive terminology towards people - especially if you are trying to endear yourself to the community.
Contemptuous terms like retarded went out of general use around the same time that I was in school (and that was long time ago) - so please desist!
(For clarity this member is NOT ScottishGuy)
Overjoyed to be in the clear for a change
:D
"retard" is marked in dictionaries as offensive word,
"slow" is NOT marked in dictionaries as offensive word.
That why some users got warning or infraction for "retard" and nobody got warning or infraction for "slow".
Whether a member is insulted or indeed whether a poster intends to insult are both highly subjective. As well, as I recall the posting guidelines more or less say that members do not have a right not to be offended. I might intend that referring to one poster as a "Scottish git", to another as a "high-tech wanker" and a third as an "old fool" as an insult, others may perceive it as an insult, still others may not care, and the recipient thinks it's a joke and does not respond. Is this a 3 demerit point infraction, or is there some element of retardation that is invoked, so that it's not an insult until some objection is made? It's just not very transparent. I refer to myself as a "whoremonger" specifically because a sanctimonious fool who is a member of this board clearly believes it to be a term of opprobrium. Is he getting 3 demerit points for using the term about members, or am I because I refer to him as a sanctimonious fool? What about my comment in a post the other day about "lip pursing" members?
That is precisely why I used the word "retardation" in my post, because you have already made the point about a dictionary - which one, by the way? - marking certain words as offensive. Retarded and its associated words may well be marked as offensive, but the way I used it, it was not. Equally dictionaries would likely be silent about "high-tech wanker" but it could be intended and/or taken as insulting. One of the reasons I attempt to use words like "apposite" in my posts, for example, or "fungible" is to obscure my meaning for simple-minded people (is that an insult?) so as to avoid such mechanistic attempts at censorship.
I think there's a line in Yes Minister where Jim Hacker complains about the obscurity of Humphrey Appleby's language, and Humphrey takes it as a compliment. I feel exactly the same wayEuropeans invented the court system and it was borrowed by the Russians, the Thais etc. However few Europeans would dream of suggesting that courts in authoritarian countries are other than instruments of oppression, while still happily using the self-same system of courts in their democratic countries
You haven’t been concentrating Colmx, Moses already covered that by clarifying that he and the Mods can say and so just whatever the fuck they want basically, no “infractions” ( hilarious btw on a grown ups board !!) will be applied - Moses “might” have a quiet word if it’s a Mod says something HE doesn’t like, but we’ll never hear about that and meanwhile the Mod will seemingly to the rest of us just go on about his business.
Mose my advice to you - quit all this stupid nonsense right now before you try yourself and the board up in even more knots than they’re already becoming tied up in. It’s beciming laughable if it didn’t have such serious ramifications for fucking up your board and people just not bothering posting for fear of ( by your own admission) almost impossible to define and indentify so called “infractions”
I’m sure ( well I think) your heart is in the right place but with English not being your first language and a Mod who’s obviously one sided when it comes to SG etc and so is thus nothing less than useless and has lost the members respect in that regard as a mod then in my opinion ( is that an insult or an opinion !?? ) this whole “infraction and points and robots” nonsense needs to stop before it gets anymore out of hand than it’s already becoming.
You will NEVER make this work and the “system” is this then only left open to abuse by yourself and mods and does nothing to either improve your board or the quality or number of posters.
If you’re wise you’ll gracefully retire this wonderful new plan to the tried it and it wasn’t a great idea filing cabinet and let us all move on to more pressing matters such as “how much is a beer in boystown and how much is an off these days” - in my humble opinion.
Good luck with that then as I’ve a feeling you and I have too very different definitions of the word working then perhaps - maybe we’re reading it from two different dictionaries eh.
Opps that should have read "two' very different definitions of course !
And what if a person NEVER SAID the word unilaterally deemed offensive in the first place Moses - theres no way that could be an "offence" is it?
What concerns me (and should concern everybody else) is that there doesn't seem to be any right or form of appeal against decisions. Please explain why you consider that unnecessary. Is it that the moderation team is not only "immune" as you have already stated, but they're now "infallible" as well?
What further concerns me (and this is certainly not meant to be offensive) is that your grasp of the English language is clearly not 100% and yet you seem to be putting yourself in the position of adjudicating on its nuances and as a possible result of that maybe applying flawed interpretations to what people are posting.
Further - why are you disclosing my "points status" to everybody by posting it publicly
Apart from the meaning of the word, and whether it is listed in the dictionary as offensive, the context of it's use and the intent of the poster is also relevant in any decision as to whether another member might be offended by it, requiring a poster to be sanctioned.
For example if I were to refer one of the members, or even moderators, as a cocksucker, is this merely a statement of fact, as I am completely confident that members here have indulged in this activity at one time or another, or is this offensive.
So much to take on board, no wonder the need is for three moderators to implement this system.
I think the entire system needs to be retarded until thought out more - opps I used that word again. FUCK ! Shit, I hope no one is offended by my FUCK there btw, so we can talk about fucking the shit out of Thai boys for 500 baht but whatever we do lets not be offensive now guys - just remember that eh. Moses this is all a lot of bollox if you ask me ( which I accept you didn't but hey it's a free country - here - so I might as well say that while I can). You're simply creating problems where they don't exist on your board trying to implement a system thats fatally flawed to begin with ( especially on a board with about 20 active members who've all been posting here for YEARS without your super duper new infraction system being needed it seems), so, as i said good luck with it, it's going to be fun watching you roll it out ( fairly and equally amongst ALL members) .
Thank you.
Tell me the same in one year.
I can give you even more ideas about future changes. Next my steps will be punishment of derailing topics in main forums (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, World) - "stay on topic or open your own", punishment of meeting every new member with words "you are hydra/clone" - "it isn't your business unless you are moderator".
Can't wait - there seems so much to look forward to.
Next step will be changing your name to Gaybutton Maximus?
谢谢
2.3 The official language of the Board is English. Members will avoid using other languages (except in PMs) ....It is incumbent on every member to ensure his posts are intelligible to all members. If you are going to post non-English on these forums, you MUST also post an English Translation of your post.
Just as well you're immune a447
Shit is that Chinese, there I've been thinking it was two flies on my screen for the last hour ! I really will have to look into glasses !